I love making tags. They are a great way to try out techniques or create a quick piece of artwork. I also like using inky paper towels or brayer mop up sheets for a quick background. This tag combines both in response to a set of prompts plus one of my favourite Clarity stamp sets. Here's the story of how it was made: #ClarityOpenDayFestival.
The
first prompt was to make a tag; I didn't have to as I had a
large stash of #8 manilla tags and at the time Clarity didn't make any tag dies. Now I could have used any of the largest nesting tag dies in the Clarity range. The second was to use
scrap paper; I covered the tag with a piece of copy paper that I had
used to clean my brayer off when creating a gelli print using Golden Hi
Flow acrylic paints The paper was sealed with matte gel medium, dried thoroughly and trimmed.
A third prompt was to use a stamp, a fourth to use blue and a fifth to
add a favourite saying. I combined all three in one step by stamping
the Carpe Diem stamp from Claritystamp directly onto the tag using
Majestic Blue Versafine ink and heat embossing in detail clear EP. I
then used a blue Sakura PN micron pen to colour in the lettering.
I also stamped and heat embossed - this time in Onyx Black Versafine -
one of the large stamps from the Hats 2 set by Claritystamp onto a
separate piece of card. This was coloured using my small selection of
Kuretake Clean Colour pens, fussy cut and added to the tag.
The final prompt was to add a border, so I blended the Van Gogh Phthalo
Blue Oil Pastel (Royal Talens) along the edges. I had to seal the
tag otherwise the oil pastel would have eventually rubbed off.
