Crafty Adventurista: Flowers/Mother's Day March DT Project 2 For Country View Crafts and Challenges

Hello there,

Here I am, with my second DT Project for March, for Country View Crafts and Challenges on Facebook.

The challenge theme is ‘A Flower/Flowers/Mother’s Day’ and runs until the end of the month.

The challenge is open worldwide and you can join the group here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/164920247712393

You must use products from brands that Country View Crafts stocks, and please mention them in your post.

You can enter 5 times each month with different projects and one winner will be selected randomly.

There is a fabulous Alison Bomber Paperartsy stamp set for the lucky winner for this month.

For my project I’ve made a series of tags using stamps from Tim Holtz Forgotten Garden CMS481, using an old technique that has had a revival. I stamped onto tea bags and then coloured in the images with Tim Holtz watercolor pencils. The teabags give the overall look a very cool texture.

I thought these flowers look like the wildflowers you see dotted around the country, and they fitted perfectly on the opened out teabag.

To start, I drank a few cups of tea :-) let the teabags dry out and then cut them open to remove the tea leaves.

I lightly painted some watered down (about 50:50) white Watercolour Ground onto each bag to prep them to take the stamping and paint.

I stamped the images with Black Archival Ink and then using my Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor pencils, I coloured in the images.

I used Distress Collage Medium to attach the decorated teabags to the medium sized kraft tags from Tim’s assortment pack (I only had 3 of Tim’s ones, so I cut out another two from Kraft card.) Using a hole punch that makes the circles that go over the hole, I punched out 5 of these and glued them on too.

I lightly splattered some watered down Distress Ink Rusty Nail onto the almost completed tag to give them a more aged effect and then went round the edges with Distress Inks Scorched Timber, Gathered Twigs and then Black Archival.

I randomly stamped some text and numbers from Tim’s Tidbits CMS488

Using some Idea-ology Field Notes Snippets which I had blended with Black Archival ink around the edges, I layered these onto each tag in random areas and also some of the Tim Holtz Cello Sticker Tape.

To finish I wrote numbers in the ‘label’ on the flowers and added some string to the tag.

I may add some of these to cards, so I decided to leave a sentiment off for now so I could add it at a later stage.

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing my project and maybe give it a try yourselves.

Also, don’t forget the challenge runs until the end of the month, so there’s still time to join in.