12 Tags of 2016: March

I have never made tags. 

I've always been looking with an envy the 12 Tags challenge.

I saw tags made by my Simon Says Stamp' friend Barbara

and I felt ansolutely inspired, the techniques are AWESOME.

This is the time! 

I just had to try! I'm affraid it wouldn't be only 1 per month :-)

Whatever, I'm oficially joining the 12 Tags of 2016 challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by, hugs!

Supplies from Simon Says Stamp Store:

Archival Ink - Jet Black	Wild Honey - Distress Ink	Peeled Paint - Distress Ink	Vintage Photo - Distress ink	Black soot - Distress ink	Lindy′s Stamp Gang BLAZING BLACK Flat
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metal WORD BANDS	Tim Holtz Sizzix Mixed Media Thinlits Die	CAS-ual Fridays STARS Fri-Dies	Tim Holtz IMAGINATION Stampers Anonymous	Tim Holtz IN DREAMS Stampers Anonymous	MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS

Paradise with you

Good morning!

Here we wake you up with this new Sketch Saturday challenge.

This is the sketch to follow:

Sailing

I'm sure you will join our new challenge at Seize the Birthday!

This week's Topping is 

WATER 

it means that everyone missing summer should make a b-day card!

I made a male one for a sailor or sea lover.

What will you come with?

Food and Drink - Simon Monday Challenge

Hi everyone! 

I know you're waiting impatiently for this new challenge 

at Simon Monday Challenge Blog 

and here we are with a fresh topic which is:

FOOD and DRINK

As always there is a $50 voucher sponsored by the greatest Simon Says Stamp which you could use for crazy shopping at Simon Says Stamp Store!

Here is what I have made this week. 

This is my first time altering the egg tray but I absolutely loved it.

There is a chance I'll repeat it someday...

This would be my centerpiece for the upcoming Easter Hollidays.

I decided to use only three pastel and Spring colors for every element.

Here below there is a picture of the steps I made:

1. The whole tray was covered with white gesso, not too precisely because I wanted the surface to be irregular and some parts of the tray were left uncovered. After that I put some coarse texture paste randomly and dried it.

2. I put different pieces of textiles, gauze, twine, cotton tape, coconut fibre and glued them to the tray. 

3-4. I started to blending distress inks (yellow, green and violet) randomly and spraying with water to let them spill naturally and obtain different shades of colors. This was the best part of the work!

After my tray was ready to be embellished, I stamped lots of Artful Flowers and some Crazy Birds with Jet Black ink on the Canson Watercolor paper pad. 

Cut them all out and started to coloring using the Blending Tool 

and Reflills one per each color. After all the flowers and birds were colored, I sprayed them a little bit with water letting the colors mix together and also to receive some clearer dots on the inked elements. I also covered the small eggs with the same colors of distress inks. I glues all the elements with 3D foam squares. That's it! 

     

Supplies:

Simon Says Clear Stamps ARTFUL FLOWERS	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamp Set	Ranger/Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool	Refill Mini Round Ink Blending Tool	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Archival Ink - Jet Black
Tim Holtz DIstress Ink in Wild Honey	TH Distress Ink Peeled Paint	Dusty Concord - Distress Ink	Black soot - Distress ink	Ranger Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Pad - Ripe Persimmon	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Squeezed Lemonade	Mustard Seed Distress Ink	Hemptique Natural Hemp Cord Twine	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE FOAM Squares Adhesive	Canson MONTVAL SPIRAL WATERCOLOR 9x12 Pad	Dina Wakley Ranger Palette Kinife

Thank you for stopping by.

See you next week!