Tag swap!

I had a lovely time making some tags for a recent swap on (you guessed it!) CraftTelly.

First time I've done tags & I rather enjoyed just having a play with stamps from different companies, rather than going for a 'theme' across all 3. I used Ranger Inkssentials tags (size 8) in manilla for all of them:



So this one is Kanban stamps:



The background is of course Distress Inks (Tea Dye & Black Soot) with cogs from the Jasper stamp set using black Archival. Jasper himself was paper-pieced using various HOTP papers (from a QVC TSV several years ago) & I lifted ink from the 'face' & base with water.

The next is Indigo Blu:



I fell in love with the Wild Meadow set when it was first aired on C&C a couple of months back; the beautiful dandelion stamp in particular. On this tag I've embossed it using some glitter EP after making a background with DIs in Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmelade & Bundled Sage.



I also used the grasses 'border' stamp from the same set along the bottom of the tag, again using Bundled Sage which I then supplemented with a couple of strokes using a Distress Marker (Pine Needles I think...I can't recall which ones I have ATM!)

And finally a stamp plate from Elusive Images as was (now Chocolate Baroque):



It's DL plate called Flora Bella which is about to be withdrawn. I decided to have a play with the new Ranger Distress Markers for this one - Pine Needles, Fired Brick & a touch of Brushed Corduroy. All the images were made from a single application of ink, repeatedly huffed & stamped: the amount of pigment in these pens is amazing!