This tag had a technique I hadn't done before. Tim used his reflection stamps to do a whole background but I decided to try a snowflake image on a smaller piece of acrylic. I used Cranberry and Red Pepper alcohol inks. He said to let the ink completely dry, so I left it for about 10 minutes before stamping with the archival. I found the archival ink wouldn't rub off. So I did another alcohol background, just barely let it dry, then stamped. The technique worked perfectly revealing the snowflake. I cut the ornament on my Cricut (Christmas Noel cartridge) out of left-over plastic packaging.
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| close-up of alcohol technique on back of ornament |
On printed Basic Grey Wassail snowflake paper, I stamped an Inkadinkadoo snowflake scroll diagonally across the tag, then sponged the edges with Pumice Stone and Festive Berries distress ink. Created a little tag with one of Tim's fragments, found a shiny snowflake embellie in my stash, punched a border from coordinating paper with Martha Stewart quilted edge punch, and added a big organza bow. The shiny snowflake looks kind of odd in my picture,as the natural light from window is only picking up half of the holographic shimmer.
I like the red for this snowflake tag instead of blue!
Sharon
Dec. 7,2011
This is a very pretty tag!
ReplyDeleteOh I really like how you did this tag. The snowflake is beautiful with the tech. Like the new red DI too can't wait to play with mine now
ReplyDeleteMarilyn
Lovely tag! Great design!
ReplyDeleteOh I love your tag! Colors are great - so nordic! So cool that you could actually apply the technique and did not make a copy of Tim's tag except for layout of elements.
ReplyDeleteThis one is really gorgeous! I LOVE red and your snowflake turned out fantastic. Great job on this technique - I struggled with it myself.
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