Lost Art Cards and Designs: Dreams..Hugs and Kisses

Dreams..Hugs and Kisses

7/06/2016 |

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Dreams , Hugs, and Kisses.... or a wish goodnight every night to my granddaughters who live in a faraway land.

If you are able to ignore the bits of tissue tape on the background you will notice that part of the paper is a very light grey textured pattern. Setting out to find a coordinating paper match for my marbled manila tag, I decided to make my own.

I stained the paper using Distress Stain Stormy Sky then Distress Shaded Lilac Stain and added more to the background using Tarnished Brass and Brushed Pewter Distress Paints, My Favorite Things Tiny Star Background Stamp as well as Rubber Stamp Tapestry Twighlit Stamp Set. After this was done, I thought about another background stamp- scattered vintage clock faces. Now, I am almost positive, but I think it is a Tim Holtz stamp, purchased before I ever thought that my stamps should all be recorded somewhere by name . I still might not know better, but should.

Here is the tag that needed to have custom hand stained textured paper cardstock. I really like the way it turned out. The IO Background stamp, J13218, Watercolor Clouds, was used to make the night time clouds on a Sunset Sky. , Not quite what I was hoping for, I remembered reading on
Wendy Vecchi's blog about using Ranger White Pigment Ink and then embossing with Weathered White Embossing Powder , another Ranger product, which I highlighted with Ranger Antiquities Cobalt Embossing Powder.

I made the Tattered Lace die cut rocking horse using the Colored Crackle Technique. Using this technique made the horse look like a vintage find and I found myself wondering if a cracked enamel tehcnique would have been the better choice for it.

Wanting a ethereal effect to my tag, I knew I needed to do something to make the sentiment stand out but in a softened way, so using vellum, I die cut the overlay with a Cheery Lynn bookmark and stamped the sentiment with the Colorful Words Stamp Set by Papertrey Ink. Stamped with Stormy Sky , I colored each letter in with a Shaded Lilac Distress Marker.

Somewhere along the way I thought adding The Ton Stamps Bokeh Star stamped with Tsukineko Glacier Blue Opalite and Brilliance White Pigment Ink gave the overall effect of the tag a little luster. I used my MISTI to do this and it was SOOOOO easy!