Chase your dreams

 Hello everyone, 

For today's AALL & Create project I have made a tag. It gave me lots of trouble because what I had in mind didn't quite work out as well as I thought.

Here's how I made this:

I had this idea of a half and half tag where I stencilled with the opposite colours like I did, but when I finished it, I didn't really like it. Maybe wrong colour choice ? I don't know. 

I decided to roll with it and toned it down with white paint and a brayer and added some stamping. 

Next I stuck some washi tape down..

I then stamped some more. I used Archival ink (Picked Raspberry)  for this and the pink went totally neon when I toned it down with white paint. Weird when colours change so much. I didn't like that at all so I toned it down even more. 

I then thought the colours weren't bright enough.. so I used a blending tool and same-ish Distress Oxide colours to brighten it a little and added some white paint splatters. I thought it looked better but I am still not convinced. I put it to the side to colour the focal image. 

I stamped this Fresia stamp and coloured it.. 

At least I didn't mess that up ! lol 

Stamped the sentiments I was going to use. 

Now it is finished I quite like it! I glued the freesias down and used a watercolour marker to add some shading around it. I then added the sentiments which I inked with Distress Oxide Inks. Lastly I tore a piece of silk of some I had in my stash (from my silk painting days) and coloured it with Distress Oxide ink and added it to the top of my tag. 

I have used :

Stencil : #113 - Lotza Squares by Autour de Mwa

Stamps:

#753 - Delight In Flora by Tracy Evans

#754 - Power Of The Word by Tracy Evans

#755 - Round Digits by Tracy Evans

#757 - Tickets by Tracy Evans

Washitape:

#8 - Fledgling by Tracy Evans

#24 - Power Words by Bipasha Bk

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