Explore with world of Distress in this beach inspired tag tutorial. Audrey Pettit shares how she crafts this altered tag featuring a cool summer Tim Holtz Distress Ink Palette.
Explore Tag by Audrey Pettit
- Materials
- Instructions
- Tim Holtz Distress® Oxide® Ink Pads: Tumbled Glass, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers
- Tim Holtz Distress® Ink Pads: Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Tattered Rose
- Ranger Surfaces: #8 Manila Tag
- Tim Holtz Distress® Watercolor Cardstock
- Tim Holtz Distress® Srayer
- Raner Mini Ink Blending Tool and Foam
- Ranger Artist Brushes
- Ranger Multi-Medium: Matte
- Ranger Texture Paste: Opaque Crackle
- Ranger Adhesive Foam
- Tim Holtz® Alterations by Sizzix Dies: Seashells w/ Texture Fade, Cut Words #3, Funky Foral #1, Holiday Greens, Stitched Ovals
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Tim Holtz byStamper’s Anonymous Stencils: Dot Fade, Mint Shifter
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Stickers
Twine
Colored Cardstock
Instructions
Summer is here, and I know like many of you, I am already dreaming of long, hot summer days and cool ocean breezes. So today, I’m going to take you all to the sea shore with a beach-inspired altered tag featuring lots of fun Tim Holtz stencils and dies and a cool summer palette of Distress.
I love altered tags for gift packaging and quick décor pieces, but I almost always think to use them in an upright form. Today I’ve decided to flip things to the side, and go with a horizontal tag design. Let’s take a closer look.
Step 1: To begin, ink a Ranger #8 Manila Tag using the Mint Shifter Layering Stencil and three colors of Distress Oxide inks; Tumbled Glass, Cracked Pistachio, and Peacock Feathers.
Step 2: Place the Dot Fade stencil over the inked tag, and lightly ink random sections of the tag using Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink.
Step 3: Add large drops of water to the tag using a Distress Sprayer, and then let the tag dry. Once it’s completely dry, turn the tag on its side, and wrap blue twine twice around the bottom. Tie the twine into a bow on the left side. Die cut a thin scalloped border strip from light blue cardstock using the Stitched Ovals die set. Adhere the scallops under the twine and slightly skewed to the right, using Multi-Medium Matte adhesive.
Step 4: Die cut an assortment of small flowers and branches, as well as the seashell, from Distress Watercolor Cardstock. Emboss the seashell using the matching Texture Fade embossing folder. Press an assortment of Distress Ink colors onto a work surface, and watercolor the die cuts using Ranger Artist Brushes and clean water. For this project, I used Abandoned Coral, Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, and Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks.
Step 5: Arrange the shell and a variety of die cuts above the twine, towards the right side of the tag. Tuck some of the greenery and flowers behind the shell, and add some on top. Adhere all the pieces in place with Multi-Medium Matte.
Step 6: Die cut the Explore shadow layer from the Cut Words #3 die set from watercolor cardstock. Ink the shadow layer with Tattered Rose Distress Ink using a Mini Ink Blending Tool. Die cut the script layer from sanded Distress Cardstock. Adhere the script to the shadow using Multi-Medium Matte. Apply foam strips to the back of the die cut, and adhere it above the twine on the left side of the tag so that it overlaps the shell.
Step 7: Trim a small banner strip from blue cardstock, and cut both ends into a V-notch. Add an Idea-ology Metallic Sticker to the center of the strip. Adhere the banner to the top left corner of the tag using foam adhesive.
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