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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Mona is such a talented and amazing person. Love seeing her project shared here today.
this is such a beautiful tag… love the colors… nice ribbon..
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
This is quite a work of art!! Beautiful!
So pretty! Love the colors you chose.
Mona always amazes with her incredible creations & here’s another stunner! Love it!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!! Can’t wait to get some of those sprays!!!! Very Beautiful!!!
Going to try this technique one day..
What a wonderful tag with all this delicious texture Mona! thanks for showing us ‘how to’!!
Love the colors.
This is a gorgeous tag!
This tag is so gorgeous! I love the colors and snowflakes.
Great tag !!!
How pretty. I love the techniques and colors!
What a beautiful tag with all that shimmer!
What a beautiful tag! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful tag! I love how you showed your process!! Great work. :) Thanks for sharing.
Katie B.
I’m so excited to get to use that distress crackle paint after seeing this gorgeous project!
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.
Magnificent use of crackle paint and love this gorgeous sparkly tag!
You have me sold! Ordering the Distress Sprays ASAP! Tim Holtz is launching 24 more colors soon, so I better get going! ;)
Wowers, this is stunning! xx
GORGEOUS tag Mona!!!
LOVE your AMAZING colours and DELICIOUS textures!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your RECIPE FOR AWESOMENESS :)
Beautiful – love the combination of colours and the background texture is wonderful – so inspiring!
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.
Wow! What an amazing tag with so much texture and color.
Great tag….love all the texture.
Sooo pretty! Love the ribbon and enameled tag! Perfect final touch!
So beautiful tag! Lovely colours and texture! Thank you for sharing all the process!
Wow!!! Gorgeous tag!!
absolutely stunning tag… the details are so beautiful!
GORGEOUS tag! I love all the sparkle, texture, layers and colors!
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
I KNEW it was you, Mona! Just FABULOUS!
I love your style! So much texture and interest packed into one little tag.
Really gorgeous!
Hugs,
cathy
Ooooohhhhh!!!! This is really a winter dream!!
LOVE this tag by Mona and the technique she has explained!
Thanks so much for sharing this stunning project!
What a gorgeous tag.
I love the tag and all the different elements you used to create it! The colors are really lovely! Thank you
Absolutely gorgeous tag! I love the colors & all that wonderful texture!
Beautiful tag!! I love it!
Love the snowflakes. So beautiful. Hugz
I love Mona’s style and the way she uses so many products and elements in her designs.
Such a pretty tag – love all the layers and details. I follow the blog by email.
Gorgeous tag!
Lovely tag. Great colors and wonderful texture!
Beautiful tag!
Beautiful tag!!
Oh wow! Now that is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your BEAUTIFUL tag. Love the tutorial.
Crafty hugs,
D~
DesignsByDragonfly.blogspot
This is absolutely gorgeous.. I love all the soft colors. Thanks for sharing
What a scrumptious tag!! LOVE the soft blues and greens and the ribbon is amazing!!! Drool worthy!! TFS!
gorgeous tag…. love all that texture!