My Pretties

Thursday, October 11, 2012



My Pretties

Time:  <3 Hours
Yield:   1 -  # 10 Tag
Wet Ingredients:
  • Ink – Archival Black, Black Soot, Mustard Seed, Pealed Paint, Shabby Shutters, Spun Sugar, Wild Honey
  • Other – Gloss Varnish, Markers
  • Paint – Acrylic, Snowcap
  • Stain - Distress Weathered Wood
Dry Ingredients:
  • #10 Kraft Tag
  • Cardstock – Black Chip Board, Shabby Shutters Core’denations, Specialty Stamping Paper
  • Embossing Powder – Distressed Scattered Straw
  • Hardware – Adornments, Beads, Industrial Chic Charms & Findings, Jump Rings
  • Other – Low tack Painters Tape
  • Ribbon – Embroidery Floss, 3/8” Gross Grain, ½” Twill Tape
Tools/Equipment:
  • Brayer
  • Dies – Spellbinders #14, Styled Labels
  • Edge Distresser
  • Embossing Folders – Bricked, Damask
  • Rubber Stamps – Big Top Monkey, Stuff to Say



 

 













 























23 comments:

  1. This is a wonderfully creative tag. You made flying monkeys from circus monkeys! Great unusual color combo, too.

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  2. I love your flying monkeys!! What an absolutely gorgeous tag!

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  3. Wow! What a beautiful tag!! Love all of the pics you took making it too!

    Thank you very much for joining us this week at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog!

    Hugs...
    Melissa

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  4. Yikes. Amazing. Pinning this too!

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  5. Your background is to die for! Great job.

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  6. I love monkeys. Great background.

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  7. brilliant background, but how did you get the emboss in the middle without touching the rest?

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    1. I have various widths of acrylic strips that I use like the Tim Holtz/Sizzix diffusers.

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  8. Awesome imagination & great technique!

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  9. Monkeys, monkeys, monkeys! wooHoo!

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  10. Wow, that is an incredible tag! Love it!

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  11. Amazing tag and technics. Great job, really :)

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  12. Wow crazy chick what a fab tag. I love the background and the stamped images. Thanks for sharing the steps.

    Crafty hugs from your newest follower Annie x

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  13. Wow, what a fabulous ttag. Love how you did the monkeys, thank you so much for sharing your techniques. x

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  14. I saw those monkeys and knew this was yours!!! You have a style...lol! Crazy great, just awesome! Your blog following has taken off this month...that is awesome! Can't wait to see more! Fab take!!!

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  15. Simply Amazing!!!! Thank you for sharing your how to photos.

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  16. How did you get the emboss in the middle without touching the rest?

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  17. This Tag is brilliant. I had no idea the background was stamped with a brayer. I though you had some how magically embossed it. Thank-you so much for sharing. Karen.x

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  18. I just came across this old post and I have to tell you how fabulous it is. I am a big fan of all things OZ and you have really made a gem here. This is a great tag. Clever girl!

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  19. This is a fabulous tag..............thanks for sharing. Glad to be your new follower.

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