Winter Greetings Tag

Here is my second take on Tammy Tutterow's Satin Damask Background technique. 

It's still a little different from her technique.  I did the same process as in my last blog, only instead of Distress Stain as the base layer, I used Peacock Feather Distress Ink spritzed with water on my craft mat.  Also, I only used Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges of the tag (instead of over the entire tag) and this time I outlined my clear embossed snowflakes with a Gathered Twigs Distress Marker.

Here are some close ups of the new tag:

Alcohol ink used to give a snowflake charm a little bit of a rusty feel.  I added some velvet and thin width ribbon for the tag tie.

 Some Tim Holtz trim and Recollections bling ribbon began the embellishment process in the middle of the tag.  A Sizzix snowflake die was used to die cut some manila cardstock and vintage paper.  I when I tried gluing the two pieces together, I ended up having the two die cut snowflakes a little off center.  I used Walnut Stain Distress Ink to color the snowflake.  I added another precut snowflake and gem to complete the main embellishment for the tag.  The sentiment banner was made out of patterned paper and stamped with Moonlight archival ink.  I went around the word "winter" with an dark brown alcohol ink marker that matched the background of the paper.  I thought about going around the word "Greetings", but by that time I was afraid I would mess up the thin letters. 

 

 

 One last picture of the complete tag.  Two tags down and this technique has been a lot of fun to play with :)   Hop over over to Tammy's blog.  She is an incredibly creative crafter!  -- Mary Elizabeth