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/
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 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.
Thanks for taking the time to check out my blog.
Hugs
Carol xx
