Birthday

Howdy all, and welcome. Welcome also to my newest follower, Anjas.  If you're even remotely intrigued by these Dylusions sprays (_and_want to see some fantastic use of Ryn's stamps), take a few minutes to follow the link for some pure art enjoyment. You won't regret it.

Here's a tag card for this afternoon ...now remember, I am not really a 'tag person'. I was trying to work with inking an acrylic block, spritzing, to get some watercolor effects. Hence the tag. I didn't accomplish what I was trying to achieve. After stamping the spritzed block on the paper and not especially liking the results, then I put the swipes of color directly on a craft mat. Spritzed the inked mat..started dragging papers through the inky spots. Then got some tags and played with those for a while. Here's one of them. I don't ever know what to use tags for, as I don't do altered art, so I made a card.

- Inked mat with various DI colors: mowed lawn, scattered straw, barn red, spritzed. Dragged the manila tag (size #8 I think) around through the inks. After it dried well, I stamped it with Ranger Archival Black, using Stacy Stamps, Snapdragon 3102 AA.  Some of the stamping inside the blossoms didn't ink well, so I used a Copic Multiliner in black to redraw some lines. On further tags, I took to the stamp press to get a sharper image.

Stamped some branchy-stuff on the bottom using some Stampscape stamps, Archival Black. Felt that the flower needed something to ground it. The S.Scapes were reeds and a bare tree branch, which I thought worked pretty well as grasses. Memento did not seem to work well on this effort. When I use another of the tags made from this session, I think I shall distress the edges with some darker inks, maybe scuff up the edges a bit.

- trimmed bottom corners of the tag to make it fit better on a longer card. Embossed white mat with a Darice large dots EF, adhered a cotton ribbon, then popped up the tag on dimensionals. Matted tag was just adhered flat to the cardbase with tape. Added the SU teeny tiny sentiment to a similarly colored yellow snippet, diecut with a small S/B label die, used a side mount. Tied green & white pattern cotton ribbon in the tag hole, and it's done.

Even though I only have one tiny little snippet on this card (I'm being honest!), I think I shall nip over to Pixie's Playground for Week 86. There's a brand new & newly name snuggly little mascot, that you will just adore. Along with some fantabulous cards to enjoy. I took just a quick peek, and then I'll be back for more enjoyment later. Com'on along....it's lots a'fun.

Hope you like this share today. Come again for a visit when you have time. Have a wonderful afternoon. Hugs

Edit: Ooops, in looking at the enlargement of the card, I see that one of the green rhinestones had fallen off when I snapped the photo. Off I go to add another one. Drat it and I had used Glossy Accents on a toothpick on these to be sure they adhere. Sorry!