These two Christmas moonlight tags are for Robins fun Free for All Challenge - Tag Team.
I started with an A4 sheet of smooth white cardstock, white school glue and a large sheet of aluminium foil. I once lost 4 hours of my life trying to get glue off my craft mat, hence my love of al foil.
Drizzle long lines of glue up and down the A4 cardstock then using a scrunched up bit of foil (or clingwrap) dab and squish the glue in random spots. Allow to thoroughly dry. I get impatient, so in my mixed media box I have a few pre glue-resist A4 sheets ready to go.
On the foil in a few places firmly smack some distress inks and give it a good spritz of water. Still leaving the A4 sheet as one piece, swish it around the inky puddle. Smack some more ink on foil and spritz again, this time use a sponge and blending tool to mop up the inky water and scrub directly over the cardstock.
No matter how many photos I took in different light, these tags look blue. They are actually turqoise, I used Peacock Feathers and Evergreen Bough distress inks. I cut the sheet up and made 4 tags and 4.5" x 4.5" square for a card from the one A4 piece.
The moon is some bright and sparkly childrens craft foam, it was too thick to punch out a circle so I punched a circle in the actual cardstock, then stuck a glittery square at the back.
The little house tag is supposed to look like fireworks or decorations in the background. It is a diecut that tore in the middle LOL.
Thank you for looking, I hope you can join in Robin's fun challenge, click here .
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Ink: Tim Hpoltz Distress Inks Peacock Feathers and Evergreen Bough
Accessories: Childrens silver glitter craft foam, IO tree die, Marianne design house die, Poppy Stamps Joy die (minus Joy), silver twine, 1.25" circle punch, .75" circle punch, micron pen, Carl hole drill, scissors to snip corners.
Registered: December 25, 2005 Location: Drinking in God's Good Grace...! Posts: 42118
Sat, Dec 13, 2014 @ 7:41 PM
Wow! TFS!!~
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Sun, Dec 14, 2014 @ 5:21 AM
Great technique Susie and it sounds like it might be good for stress relief with the smashing - LOL. I always love your descriptions of how you do things. Great tags with fabulous bgs! Hugz
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Registered: February 3, 2005 Location: Delray Beach, FL Posts: 34769
Sun, Dec 14, 2014 @ 7:02 AM
Oh, Susie, these are amazing! I always get a tickle out of your descriptions and would one day love to watch you "smacking" your pads on the foil! LOL! But in the end, the results are stunning, as always! I so love the faux-fireworks and amazing color (I am imagining a turquoise shade!). Oh, sweet sis, you always delight! Sending hugs and love!
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Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26123
Mon, Dec 15, 2014 @ 4:27 PM
Your uploads are always an education! I love your glue resist description and think I am going to give that a try. I think your work-arounds are fantastic as well. I too find that glitter paper too much for my punches. What you did to achieve your ends is genius! These are gorgeous little works of art and deserve all the praise they are receiving! TFS
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Mon, Dec 22, 2014 @ 7:45 PM
Amazing, brilliant "blue" tags, Susie! As always, LOVE your inky bkgrd and adding the white and sparkle looks great. Nice way to use the sparkly foam, too. I never thought of that. By the way, my Vagabond cuts foam like butter. I've used my dies to make stamps from it. No kidding!