New Year, New Beginnings - A Pair of Tags

This fortnight's  prompt over on Tag Tuesday is New Year, New Beginnings and I went with a Spring theme and made two tags.  I found the perfect background on my inky paper pile.

Cover a #8 manilla tag with the top layer of a piece of inky paper towel, seal with matte medium, dry and trim the excess.

Add one of the eggs from the Clarity Chicks and Eggs stamp set in Ground Espresso archival ink.

Stamp one of the chicks from the same set on top of the egg in Black Soot archival ink.

Add shading to the images using Faber-Castell big brush markers, blended out with a Pergamano blending pen and nibs.

Add yellow flock to the chick using a quickie glue pen and yellow fun flock powder.

Add a glaze to the eggs and the beak of the chick using a clear embossing pen and heat emboss in clear embossing powder. To finish, add the Clarity Spring stamp (NDC #100) in Onyx Black Versafine ink and heat emboss in clear powder. Colour using Faber-Castell big brush markers.

Cover a #8 manilla tag with another section of the top layer of the same piece of inky paper towel as before, seal with matte medium, dry and trim the excess.

Stamp some of the Wee Foliage stamps at the bottom using Library Green, Peat Moss, Ground espresso and Black Soot archival inks.

Add the foliage from the Birdhouse Garden stamp set at the top in the same manner.

Add one of the bunnies from the stamp set of the same name at the bottom in Ground Espresso archival ink.

Stamp the same bunny onto Clarity stencil card in the same ink.

Colour with a Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer water colour pencil scribbled on the Pergamano mix mat and picked up with a watercolour brush pen.

Fussy cut (taking off the whiskers, edge with a brown brush pen and add to the tag.

To finish, add the Clarity Time for Something New stamp (NDC #113) in Onyx Black Versafine ink and heat emboss in clear powder. Colour using Faber-Castell big brush markers.

NB For those not sure what an inky paper pile is.  I keep all my sheets of copy paper and paper towels that I have used to mop up ink off blending mats, cleaning stamps and stencils and removing excess ink/paint from brayers.