Crackled, Glittered, & Sprayed Holiday Tags

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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!

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Steps to create a beautiful painted, stenciled and inked background and die cut embellishments.

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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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  1. Today’s Christmas tag is just sparkly beautiful. I like the effect of using the crackle paint. I need to get mine out again and use it on a tag.

  2. You have me sold! Ordering the Distress Sprays ASAP! Tim Holtz is launching 24 more colors soon, so I better get going! ;)

  3. GORGEOUS tag Mona!!!
    LOVE your AMAZING colours and DELICIOUS textures!!!
    THANK YOU for sharing your RECIPE FOR AWESOMENESS :)

  4. Beautiful – love the combination of colours and the background texture is wonderful – so inspiring! A wonderful way to get ready for the coming winter holiday season.

  5. Oh my goodness! That is just so beautiful – love the colours and the texture! Stunning tag that I would love to be able to make and a whole lot of products that I now want – stunning! Karen x

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