Wow! Only two more tags to go! Have you learned some fun new techniques to try? I really hope I have shown you some cool things you can do with products you already have, or inspired you to take a second look at products you may have overlooked in the craft store because you were not sure how to use them. I am in NO WAY trying to get you to buy the products I am using on these tags, but some products just work better than others at achieving the results I am showing you. I use certain products based on my own past experiences- successes AND failures. Use what you already have, and experiment with them. You may just surprise yourself and come up with a new technique that you just love! I truly do hope you have a chance to try some of these techniques on your own tags, scrapbook pages and cards.
So without further adieu:
Fall Tag #11
Let's get started!
Step 1:
Using an ink blending tool, color tag with light tan ink.
Step 2:
Add more color to tag with a dark green color of ink.
Step 3:
Make a cup with your hand, and fill hand with a small amount of water. Flick water onto tag surface. Allow water to sit on tag for a moment and then dry tag with a heat tool. Repeat as many times as you like to achieve varied looks.
Step 4:
Dampen and crumple and old recipe. Flatten back out with your hand and allow to dry. I don't know about you, but reading this recipe sure is making me hungry. :) I have always wondered what to do with those extra slabs of thickly sliced warthog meat, not to mention those pesky dead possum we always see on the side of the road. I especially like how it says to only use 1/2 possum. You can save the the other half for breakfast possum omelets the next day. YUMMM!!!!! As my grandma used to say: "waste not, want not."
In my hurried excitement to use this recipe on my tag, I seem to have forgotten to take a photo of "Step 5". So here goes:
Step 5:
Glue recipe to tag and cut off excess.
Step 6:
Add coppery letter stickers to tag.
Step 7:
Add ribbons to bottom of tag. I find that using hot glue to adhere the ends of the ribbon to the back of the tag works well. For a bit of contrast, use ribbons with varied textures- like this satin paisley with the brown striped twill.
Step 8:
Add a leaf and dried fruit slice using hot glue. (Because everyone knows you simply must have some sort of acidic element when cooking that fabulous road kill dish) Dried fruit slices can be found at just about any craft store or even in bags or potpourri (that's where mine is from). I think apple slices would look great on this tag also, don't you? (Not sure how apple tastes with possum though...or the occasional slab of warthog.)
Step 9:
Attach additional twill, a tied button and mini pine cones. Tie a ribbon to the top of the tag and you're done!
So there you go!
Before you run off to scrape that critter off the road to make your own batch of piping hot Possum Stew, don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win the big give-a-way: a goodie bag with a set of Distress Inks in three fabulous fall colors, a bottle of glimmer mist, and a cool assortment of vintage ephemera, and the second give-a-way: your own "12 Tags of Fall" wire tag holder to display all 12 tags!!!
Thanks for stopping by!
later,
nancy
