S U P P L I E S

Tags!  I used size 12 - see them all here  **  Color Wash  **  Distress Stains  **  Sew Stamper tool and additional heads  **  Empty mister bottle so you can mix lighter versions of Color Wash **  Heat It tool to hurry along drying your tags **  Perfect Pearls mists  **  Stencils from The Crafter's Workshop  **  Gesso  **  Craft Scraper  **  Rubber stamps to add lots of layers to your tags.  I used ones from B Line Designs  **  StazOn Inkpads  **  PITT pens  **  White Gelly Roll pen  **  Tim Holtz Tissue Tape to embellish your tags  **  Kaisercraft Wood Flourishes  **  K & Co embellishments  **  Caron Watercolor threads - I used them to bind my book

This is the first tag you see me work on in the video, right from the beginning where I add color.  Interesting how things progress, isn't it?  I added the border using the Sew Stamper, wrote on the tag with both black (PITT Pen) and white ink (white Gelly Roll), added the Kaisercraft flourish, and even added white dots to the center of the stars from the Sew Stamper.  Details are important!

This tag combines just about every technique I discuss in the video; Color Wash and Distress Stains to add color, Perfect Pearls mists (see how to make your own custom colors here) over a stencil, rubberstamping, and I used the Sew Stamper to create the horizontal lines at the bottom and the vertical ones that descend from the top of the tag.

Another you saw me work on in the video.  I love the look that writing on the dark colors with the white Gelly Roll pen creates.

If you watched the video about using Kaisercraft wood flourishes you saw this tag.  It too includes all of the techniques you see me demo in the video.

Another that was featured in the Kaisercraft flourishes video. 

This tag includes the usual techniques, plus I used Tim Holtz tissue tape and a seed packer from the K & Co Seed Packet Journal Pocket

This one uses another of the seed packets from that assortment.

Splotches from taping a Distress Stain dauber top on the tag, hard enough to make the splash effect.  Plus the usual stamping with the Sew Stamper and other rubber stamps, misting with Perfect Pearls and some writing.

More tissue tape on this one, plus white gel pen, rubber stamps, and of course lots of color and glimmer!

Another example of the techniques.  Some of the time just a fragment of the stencil is enough.

This time I misted Color Wash through the stencil instead of using gesso.  Lots of droplets splashed on the tag, plus the Sew Stamper and text.

A messy rendition of the stencil using gesso.  Nothing says every image must be perfect!

I think this one needs a little more... of something.  Not sure what, but I'm also not sure it's finished.

This isn't finished yet either.

Nor is this...

There's writing, done using a white gel pen, on the left side, in the block of turquoise.  I need to take another photo that shows the text.  You get the idea about the rest of the tag though.