Post 147: Mixed Media Butterfly Tag 1

Hi friends :)

First of all, thanks a lot for all your sweet and kind comments and prayers, my mum is feeling better and is on the mend, there are still more results awaited from the hospital but praying to God that everything is okay. Big panda hugs to you all xoxoxo. 

I was free for a while today so thought of indulging in some crafting. Made a couple of mixed media tags. Sharing the first one here. The color scheme is black, white and shades of yellow. The sentiment reads "The butterfly counts not months but moments and has time enough."

Synopsis of the process:

-Took the die cut tag and colored it in some places with distress inks and sprays then did stenciling with distress ink. 

- Did background stamping with multiple stamps using distress ink and archival ink. 

-Added some darker details with the stencil and a black marker. 

-On snippets of cardstock, stamped the sentiment and butterflies with jet black archival ink. The butterflies were fussy cut and the sentiment label was prepared by stamping in the background and distressing the edges and coloring it here and there to give a grungy look. Then the butterflies and sentiment were adhered to the tag. 

-A yellow eyelet was added to the tag using a crop-a-dile 

- Some seam binding was colored with black and yellow colored sprays and tied to the tag.

- Lastly, a darker border was created with inks and faux stitching was added using a black sharpie. 

List of Supplies:

1. Stamplorations Stamps- Trendy Butterflies 2

2. Artplorations Stencil- Retro circles 

3. Prima Finnabair Rubber stamp- vintage clock

4. Hampton Art Numbers stamp

5. Impression Obsession Stamps- Silhouette 11

6. Hero Arts Butterfly stamps

7. Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inkpads- mustard seed, fossilized amber, squeezed lemonade and black soot

8. Seam Binding

9. Sizzix Tim Holtz Tag Collections Die Set

10. Iris cardstock 250 gsm

11. Black fine point sharpie 

12. Tim Holtz distress tool

13. Ranger round blending tool and foams

14. Camel Fabric glue

15. Color Splash Sprays- Lemon Zing and Charcoal 

16. Crop-a-dile

17. Eyelet 

18. Ranger Archival Ink- Jet black

Here are a few pictures of the tag:

 

I am playing along with the following:

Rubber Dance Theme Challenge- April - I have used black, white and yellow on this tag.

Butterfly Challenge #77 - I have used both themes- the color jasmine - creamish yellow and faux stitching around the tag with a marker. 

Stamplorations April Mixed Media Challenge (1 artploration stencil has been used here- retro circles)

Stamplorations Things with Wings Linky Party

Stamplorations Theme and Sketch April Challenge  (I have gone with the theme of wings-butterflies)

Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge

HLS MM April Challenge (sprays have been used to create the background and color the seam binding)

WordArt Wednesday Weeks 278-279

Double D challenges- Silhouettes (One of the stamps used is a silhouette design) 

All Sorts Challenge- week 412:I spy- "B for butterflies and black"

Addicted to Stamps Challenge 146- Not a square card 

Thanks for your time :) 

Love reading your comments.

Stay Blessed !