Do what you love

Hi there,

today, Elizabeth Craft Designs is releasing new dies from the wonderful Susan Tierney-Cockburn Garden Notes line:

• cut out all the parts needed for three flowers with leaves on a branch with the help of the Elizabeth Craft Designs Dogwood 2 dies
• use Elizabeth Craft Designs Soft Finish Cardstock Dark Chocolate for the branch and watercolor paper for the flowers and leaves
• color the flowers and leaves with Pan Pastels (permanent green, magenta tint, diarylide yellow tint, neutral grey shade) and ink up the edges with Distress Inks (Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber) for extra dimension
• assemble the flowers and add Prima Marketing Micro Beads Pollen to the stamen
• cut out a tag from watercolor paper and cover it with white gesso
• add watered-down black charcoal powder in some places
• create some texture using the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Grunge and the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Elements sets and Archival Ink Black Soot
• add a touch of blue with Jane Davenport Aquapstels
• dye a piece of seam binding with that same blue color, rip it apart and thread the strands through the hole of the tag
• ink up the edges of the tag with black ink
• add a sticker from the Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker set as sentiment

Have a wonderful day.

Yours,

Happy Day Owl Shaker Tag

Hi there,

this is my newest creation for the Karten-Kunst Blog:

• cut out the tag from the My Favorite Things Tag Builder Blueprints 5 twice - once from watercolor paper and once from acetate
• cut out the open version of this tag using the same die set three times - once from watercolor paper and twice from foam rubber
• create a background on the background tag using Distress Inks (Tumbled Glass, Broken China) and spritz it with water from your Mini Mister for extra texture
• cut out the Paper Smooches Birch Trees from watercolor paper and color the outlines with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens
• glue the birch trees to the background 
• color the front frame with the same colors of Distress Ink 
• stamp the cute little owl from the Avery Elle Woodland Wonders stamp set with Versafine (Smokey Gray) and color the image with ZIG Clean Color Real Brush Pens and a waterbrush
• cut out a banner from watercolor paper using a die from the My Favorite Things Tag Builder Blueprints 5 die set 
• stamp the sentiment from the same Avery Elle set onto the banner using the same grey ink - heat-emboss the sentiment with clear embossing powder
• ink up the sentiment banner with Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass, Broken China)
• fill the shaker element with glitter, blue micro beads and clear seed beads
• assemble the shaker tag
• dye a piece of seam binding with Distress Ink (Tumbled Glass) and thread it through the hole of the tags

Have a wonderful day.

Yours,