Hey everyone,
just two days until Halloween, so of course I have
another inspiration project for this. Today I want to share these two tags. I
know, it might be a bit hard to see on the photo, but guess which
material I used as a base?
... it's foil! Windmill foil to be exact.
I
cut my two tags from the foil and colored them with alcohol inks and
some blending solution. I worked on them as long as I was happy with the
look.
While they were drying, I stamped and cut two focal
points - the witch with her broom and the death moth - on watercolor
paper. I left a white boarder around both images. I usually don't do
that, but I thought they needed a little more contrast to stand out
against my colorful tags. Bonus: it made the cutting much easier. ;-)
To add more interest I chose a chipboard element for each tag and heatembossed it - my favorite thing to do with chipboard.
As
my backgrounds have dried in the meantime, I could work a little more
on them. I decided to turn the tag around and stamp on the smoother side
without the alcohol ink. For stamping I used a white Stazeon ink which
works really well on foil. I stamped the row of chakras as well as part
of the tree stamp on the red tag and two different skulls and the branch
antlers on the blue one. The tree and the antlers both create a similar
look when you just stamp parts of it, but I wanted to give you double
the inspiration.
I finished the tags by glueing the chipboard
pieces, the cutout images and a lot of thread on them and added one of
the Tim Holtz stickers on each.
I haven't had my alcohol inks for a while now, but it was fun playing with them on the foil. And of course there are some cool possibilities of using foil tags for decoration such as placing them in front of an electric candle.
Stamps used:
Witch Holding Broom (19705)
Death Moth (20056)
Weathered Tree (19467)
Realistic Skull (19724)
Branch Antlers Set of 2 by Cat Kerr (20147)
The Head Figure by Cat Kerr (20138)
Chakras (20246)
Other material:
- windmill foil
- watercolor paper
- Versaclaire Ink (nocturne)
- Stazon ink (opaque cotton white)
- Ranger alcohol inks + blending solution
red tag: sunset orange, purple twilight, wild plum
blue tag: denim, turquoise, raspberry
on both: pitch black
- Scrapiniec chipboard elements (spiderweb 4967, boarder 4614)
- Embossing powder (Lindy's Gang - chalk it up)
- black and white thread
See you soon & happy Halloween!
