Un grand tag mixedmedia - challenges The Artistic Stamper, Craft Barn & Craft Stamper

Bonjour! Helloooo!

Voilà, on ne m'arrête plus LOL, ça change un peu... Bon je vous rassure, ça ne va pas durer!!! ^^ Mon blog restera actif tout au long du mois de juillet - j'ai plusieurs réas de programmées pour mes DTs Katzelkraft et Crafty Individuals - mais ensuite en pause au mois d'Août, je serais en vacances avec ma petite famille et je compte bien en profiter pour souffler un peu... J'en ai besoin!
Je serais aussi bien occupée le reste du temps chez moi avec de nouveaux projets en perspective, donc pas trop présente sur le net. 

Je vous montre aujourd'hui un grand tag mixed-media que je viens de terminer, il participe à trois challenges, celui de The Artistic Stamper: Tags (c'est notre coupine Tit'belsoeur qui va être contente hihiiiiiii!!!), et aussi celui qui s'achève ce week-end sur le blog du Craft Barn sur le thème du jeu de cartes (ou de ce qu'on y trouve dessus, coeurs, piques, etc), et enfin celui de Craft Stamper.  

Prise encore une fois par le temps, je vous mets quelques explications mais en anglais seulement je suis désolée... (dans la mesure où je participe à ces 2 challenges anglais, ça me paraissait plus logique dans ce sens). Mais comme toujours, n'héstez pas si vous avez des questions! Voilà, j'espère que vous aimerez mon tag, moi je l'adore, j'en ai fait 4 en tout dans ce style, je vous montrerai les trois autres un peu plus tard.

I show you today a large mixedmedia tag I had fun to do, playing with my Neil Walker stamps for once yippee!!.. These stamps are great but I don't have much time to play with them very often, sadly.

My background was made at first with Distress reinkers (in particular the strong red line was done by simply dragging the tip of my Aged Mahogeny reinker accross my tag, following the technique used by Anna-Karin Evaldsonn in the last Craft Stamper magazine - always so inspiring! - love how it has turned indeed!.. I recommend you to have a try on it too, it's fun and so easy!).

Next, I played with my Alphabet Soup Background & Border stamp and embossed the border with Distress Weathered wood, and part of the main text in white...  

My texture at the bottom and on the hearts and diamonds was made before the previous step using two masks (check the list of supplies, the one by Giovanna Zara is one of my favorites, and forever!!) and clear gesso/crackle paste, once dry I spritzed a bit of Distress Tarnished Brass then applied onto my 'paved street' two antiquing creams ((just bought! I wanted to have a try on them.. nice effect here), brown shades, and some Treasure Golds (Copper at the edges and Spanish Gold at the center)... 

I chose to ink for the first time this wonderful sir Franswar... Stamped two times, the second one on tissue paper and fussy cut out for the face and part of his shoulders only, next painted on the reverse side using PA paints snowflake, a bit of Irish Cream diluted with water and also French Roast... and then glued with matte medium to be totally merge with the original one. I love the result, I just highlighted a bit more some areas using transculent green paint and markers maybe, I can't remember!  

The little bee Franswar is observing with some amusement - stamped, embossed in gold, reinked and stamped in black again - comes from the very beautiful plate Insect and Butterflies. It's just very cute ^^ 

The two snails are also from the stamps set Insect and Butterflies. I stamped them on tissue paper in Coffee, they were clear embossed then easily cut out thanks to a fine brush and water and adhered on my paved street using Matte medium... Maybe a little bit strange to find them on a street haha, but so much fun for me to integrate them into my decor - a bit in a transparent way for even more fun - !!! To make them shine, I put a little Smooch gold ink on the biggest snail shell, and embossed the two shells with my Wow! EP in Gold highlight. 

I'd like to enter it in three challenges very inspiring: 

• The Artistic Stamper: Tags 
• Craft Barn weekly challenge: playing cards (or anything related like hearts, clubs, spades or diamonds!)
• Craft Stamper July challenge, on the theme of 'Take a Stamp': Anything Goes  
  
  

Supplies

Tag américain Manila (Size 10), carton blanc fin  

Artistic Stamper Alphabet Soup Background & Border, Franswar (par Neil Walker), Insects and Butterflies

Tando Creative Eighties (par Giovanna Zara), Carabelle Studio Coeur, Carreau, Trèfle, Pique 

Tissue Paper, Multi-medium Matte gel

Clear Gesso (Liquitex), Dreamweaver White Crackle paste   

Archival black and Coffee, Versamark, Distress reinkers in aged mahogany, weathered wood, shabby shutters and squeezed lemonade, Distress ink Tea Dye, Distress spray Tarnished Brass, Dylusions ink spray Lemon Zest,
Distress marker vintage photo, Smooch pearlized accent ink (Gold)

Wow! Clear Gold Highlight, Transparent vernis, Ultra Fine white, Distress Weathered Wood

Treasure Gold Spanish Topaz et Copper, Distress Stain spray Tarnished Brass

DecoArt media antiquing creams Patina Green/Medium Grey 

Paper Artsy paints Snowflake, Irish Cream, French Roast

Hybrid Gel white, Posca brown, Artist pen black (S)

Je vous souhaite un excellent week-end du 14 juillet, profitez-en bien!!! Bises

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are enjoying the week-end!! Hugs xx

~ Coco ~

Comments

[Dee Adams]

I love this Coco what you have done with these stamps and your colours and textures is amazing a very beautiful and interesting tag. x

[shirley-bee]

Wonderful tag! Love the image, love the colours, and that texture is fabulous! Thanks for playing along at Craft Stamper :)

[nathalia]

encore une jolie réa bien inspirée! bisous

[Titbelsoeur]

J'applaudis des deux mains !!! trop classe ce tag ! tu as merveilleusement utilisé les tampons de Neil !!

Plein de grobizoutes et merci poru ta participation au challenge de The Artistic Stamper ! je croise les doigts pour toi !

[butterfly]

What a fantastic tag - the cobbled street looks amazing (that's really clever with the stencilled crackle), and I love the colours, the wonderful scribble stamping and Franswar with his fabulous white highlighting. Brilliant!

Alison xx