Hi there, everyone! Today it´s again my turn to share a mixed media tutorial post over at the STAMPlorations blog. I have a fun and easy to do tag background tutorial prepared for you – hope you like it!

Here is how to create this tag:

1. Download the ColorBlooms digital file from this post and while you are there, you might want to grab a coloring book from the store :).
2. Color the blossoms with Distress Crayons and water.
3. Take the Big Bloom Factory (L) stencil and apply VersaMark ink on top of it.
4. Place a white tag onto the inked area and using a brayer transfer the ink onto the tag surface.
5. Take white embossing powder and apply over the tag. Heat set with a heat gun.
6. Press Distress Ink (squeezed lemonade, wild honey, shabby shutters) onto a kraft sheet and spray water mist over the areas.
7. Apply the ink onto the tag with a paint brush. Let air dry or dry with a heat gun.
8. Fussy cut the colored blossoms from the print file and adhere onto the tag overlappingly.
9. Take a piece of old book and stamp a sentiment from the STAMPlorations Fond Expressions clear stamp set with black ink onto the book sheet.
10. Fussy cut along the edges and glue onto the tag.
11. Decorate the blossoms with white gel pen. Apply black texture spray onto the tag for additional interest.
12. Add faux stitching with a black pen along the edges. Add matching ribbon and bind together with a piece of yarn.
13. Finally add a vellum butterfly for decoration.

Here is the start-to-finish video:

And this is how the finished tag looks like:

I hope you enjoyed this little mixed media tag idea! Now, there are so many ways you can vary this technique – imagine how a black tag would look like with golden embossing powder?!! I think I need to try that next :).

Have fun creating,
xxx, Sanna

Supplies:
ARTplorations Big Bloom Factory (L) stencil
STAMPlorations Fond Expressions clear stamp setDistress Crayons by Ranger
Distress Ink by Ranger
Texture Spray by Imagine Crafts