Butterfly Tag

I follow Tim Holz 12 Tags of 2015 and love to see what he comes up with every month. His March tag is one of my favorites because I LOVE bright colors and I LOVE butterflies.  Check out his tutorial on his blog.

Beautiful, right?

I happen to have a large butterfly stamp from Stampin' Up! that is perfect for this project so I figured I would make my own March tag. I used a different stencil for the gold and added the 3 for the third month, March. Here is my butterfly tag:

 

Here are some closeups where you can see the colors better:

Supplies:

Ranger #10 Manila Tags

Distress Paints:  Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers

Crackle Stencil by Stencil Girl

Ranger Texture Paste:  Transparent Matte

Gold Embossing Powder

VersaFine Black Pigment Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Stampin' Up! Swallowtail Stamp

Background Script Stamp

Ribbon

Embellishments

I love the technique that Tim Holtz uses to create many of his backgrounds, including this month's tag. Here's a quick description of the technique:  Place about a nickle size of each paint color on a craft sheet and spritz with water. Drag your tag through it once or twice, careful to not repeat to many times or you will get mud!  Spritz the tag with paint to blend the colors then dry with a heat gun. 

I had such fun with this technique that I grabbed a bunch of smaller tags and kept going!  Here they are:

  

I think that last one is my favorite!  Have you made a March tag this month? Or tried a new technique lately?  I'd love to hear about it so leave me comments below!  

  

Gilding Flakes And A Secret

Whenever I create a project for Scrap n' Art magazine, I have to wait two months to share it anywhere else.  So here are some projects I could not share till now.

Stars

I used watercolor paper and lots of  Dylusions Crushed Grape spray with the Starry Night Stencil Girl stencil. On the chipboard and wood stars, I used IndigoBlu Mega Flake gilding flakes to add the sparkle.  I layered the photo with some Gelli Arts gelli prints that I already had, then used a star edge punch that didn't much like that thick watercolor paper.  Those punches came out really messy!!  I went with the "mess" and I really love how this one turned out!  Note:  My son HATES his picture taken and I really had to bribe him to get this one!!  So don't tell him about this blog post!!!!

Stars Detail

Stars Detail

Be Fearless started out as a fun journal page that needed something.  How about some of those IndigoBlu gilding flakes!!  So I applied the gilding glue through a Crafter's Workship circle stencil then applied the flakes.  Check out my IndigoBlu Mega-Flake tutorial this month in Scrap n' Art magazine.  

"Be Fearless" Before Gilding Flakes

"Be Fearless" After Gilding Flakes

I used the Stencil Girl Uplifting Words stencil to bring out some of the words with a black pen, then added the quote on the left page. The sparkle took this page to the next level!

Hope you enjoyed my projects!  I would love to read your comment below, so don't be shy!!!