Crackled, Glittered, & Sprayed Holiday Tags
Hi readers! Happy Thursday to you! I hope your week is going great! I’m so happy to be back on the blog today with guest designer Mona Pendleton with some fun holiday inspiration. You may recognize her work from our Monday Challenge team!
Enjoy!
Steps to create a beautiful painted, stenciled and inked background and die cut embellishments.
Step 1: Die cut shapes using dies and grungeboard.
Step 2: Apply Gesso to all die cuts
Step 3: Apply texture paste to die cut tag using texture paste and a stencil.
Step 4: Apply crackle paint to die cut snowflakes. Allow to dry.
Step 5: Randomly spray die cut snowflakes with various colors of Distress Spray Stains. Allow to dry. Wipe up excess Distress Spray with moistened ribbon. Allow to dry.
Step 6: Randomly spray tag with various colors of brown Distress Spray Stains. Allow to dry.
Step 7: Repeat Step 6 substituting with various colors of blue / green Distress Spray Stains
Step 8: Randomly spray frameworks die cuts using various Distress Spray Stains. Allow to dry. Randomly apply embossing ink followed by glitter. Dry.
Step 9: Embellish tag as desired with altered die cut embellishments, sentiment tag and bow. Randomly spray tag with picket fence Distress Spray Stain.
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Ooooooo! I like this tag and I just purchased some texture paste……guess I need to open the jar!
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Lovely tag! I am definitely adding textured paste to my Christmas list!
This is gorgeous! TFS your creativity Mona!
Lovely tag. Colours are beautiful. Know what I’ll be trying this evening!
Beautifully done, I have always admired Mona’s work!!!
A beautiful tag!
This is so very beautiful….it would be hard to give it away! LOL
Beautiful and inspiring work Mona! Thank you for the step-by-step, I’m going to give it a try today! And THANK YOU SIMON SAYS STAMPS! for picking my name for the blog candy from yesterday’s post!!!
WOW… How beautiful!!! Thank you for the tutorial!. I just love all the colors!!
Amazing tag! I need to give this a try!
Wow! That is one gorgeous tag!
Pretty tag! There are lots of materials listed that I don’t normally use, so thank you for the introduction to them.
Just stunning! Love seeing the process and love the colors!
Beautiful tag and gorgeous colors :)
Loving all that sparkle and texture!
Beautiful tag. Would be a pretty decoration after the holidays.
Gorgeous! Really love the snowflakes!~kim
Cool project. Love the colors!
great tag!!
Love all the different layers of texture.
Love how the snowflakes turned out on the great tag!
Love the texture in this project! So easy to replicate. Thanks Mona.
Beautiful Tags, love the texture in the background and the snowflakes! Beautiful, what great coloring!
Wow–beautiful tags–thanks for the great tutorial!
Great choice of colors and the end result is stunning. Good job!
Wow! This tag is stunning! TFS!
Wow…. what am amazing tag… thanks for the step-by-step guide!
I don’t have any distress stains, but every time I see them used it looks like such fun
It will definitely be tags this year!
Love the beautiful color and texture. More Christmas tags. please.
Oooh, this is beautiful!
Thank you for the awesome opportunity Stephanie and all at Simon Says Stamp! Thank you all for the kind comments! Tickled pink that you like my project :)
Wow what a stunning tab!
WOW, this really reminds me of snowy, sunny, cold winterdays.
Beautiful tag and a great tutorial!
Awesome Tag!!! Love the texture and layers!!!! I have to go make some tags now!
WOW this is so beautiful :-D Thank you so much for sharing and tutorial :-D
Stunning work on
this beautiful tag!
Carla from Utah
This is gorgeous–love the colors and depth.
Gorgeous tag Mona. So festive, and I love that sparkly background.
This could be one of my favourite tags of the year
CU hellerlittle
Very yummy textures. Love the different colours fot the holidays.
Beautiful tag. Love the colored ribbon and snowflakes.
Incredible. How do you think of this stuff? It’s beautiful.
Wow! Gorgeous tag, love the design! x
Love that colours and the ribbon looks so great!
so pretty
So pretty, love the colors!
Beautiful depth of color and texture on the tag, Mona. It looks like it would be complicated but it really wasn’t.
BEAUTIFUL Mona!! =) I LOVE the FUN textures and I’m sure the Pictures don’t do this FULL Justice!!?? I’m sure in REAL Life this is BEYOND BEAUTIFUL!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
These look really good!