Leafy Pumpkin Tag
Hi readers! Happy Sunday, thanks for popping by today! Please give a big warm welcome to special guest and Monday Challenge DT member, Anna-Karin Evaldsson! She dreamed up this GORGEOUS Autumn inspired tag, and I just love how it turned out! Read on to learn more!
Hi everyone! I am so happy to be here with you today, on the second last day of October, with a fun tutorial. I love to see the seasons change and autumn has been absolutely gorgeous. This tag celebrates the beauty of the season, but the techniques would work just as well for any theme or project. You can easily adapt the techniques for a card, scrapbooking layout or art journal page.
I love to try different background techniques and for this tag I wanted to play around with a stencil to create a textured leafy background, with lots of yummy embedded layers. I used mainly products by Tim Holtz for this tag and took step photos so that you can easily see what I did.
1. Start by coating a manila tag with white gesso and when that is dry, apply Texture Paste through the Autumn Layering stencil. You can also use another stencil, but make sure that it isn’t too detailed, but has some open space for you to work on.
2. Paint the background with Peeled Paint Distress Paint. Let dry.
3. Coat the background with a layer of Distress Collage Medium Matte. The reason for doing this is that the Texture Paste is very porous, which can make paints and ink look lighter on top of it, since some of the paint is absorbed into the paste. I wanted my leaves to be vibrant, and the Matte Medium sealed the paste.
4. Paint the leaves with a variety of Distress Paints and add a few veins. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look perfect.
5. When dry, put the stencil back on the tag and stamp through the stencil with a script stamp. I stamped on scrap paper first, and then stamped repeatedly before re-inking again.
6. Place the stencil back again and apply Distress Collage Medium Crazing with your finger, varying the thickness. The thicker the paste, the thicker the cracks. Let dry.
7. Rub Distress Crayons into the cracks. I used Rusty Hinge, Candied Apple and Vintage Photo. Add a bit of Walnut Stain around the edges. It is easiest to leave the stencil in place when applying the crayon. Remove excess with a slightly moist paper towel.
8. I die cut some Tim Holtz Tiny Tattered Florals from Simon Says Stamp wonderful Glimmer Cardstock.
9. Use the slotted quilling tool that comes with the die set to roll the flowers. If you want to see this in action, I have a tutorial, including a video, on my blog, for the Tiny Tattered Florals.
10. Die cut branches from brown kraft-core cardstock and leaves from old dictionary paper. Ink the edges of the leaves.
11. Place a strip of burlap and a torn strip of cardboard on the tag as a base for the embellishments.
12. Glue a piece of Linen Ribbon to the cardboard and then glue the leaves and branches in place. Continue with the pumpkins and the flowers.
13. Did you see that my pumpkins look textured and a little different from what they look like in the packaging? By mistake, my box of idea-ology Pumpkin Pieces Findings got squashed at home. First, I was upset when I saw that some of the pumpkins were damaged, but then I realised that it actually made them look interesting. So I squashed them up some more and used them on this tag.
14. The Glimmery Cardstock is so glimmery in real life that it is hard to capture on a photo. You can see it a little better here perhaps. I love it. I also used quite a bit of the Glimmery Cardstock on a recent art journal page, made with the new Believe in the Season release . I also added some 28 Lilac Lane Neutrals Sequins to the tag.
15. I really like the look of the layered leaves, with the paint, script stamping, Crazing Medium and Distress Crayons. It makes them stand out from the background, and be a part of it, at the same time. I think the same technique would look great with a snowflake stencil too.
16. Add one more flower, a couple of leaves and sequins at the top of the tag. The Crinkle Ribbon was dyed with Aged Mahogany and Rusty Hinge Distress Ink.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and that it inspired you to play around with some background techniques.
Thank you so much for looking!
Happy crafting!
Anna-Karin
great idea. Such a beautiful tag! xx
Great tag!I love the script effect on the leaves.
What a gorgeous tag! I’d have never known those were squashed pumpkins if you hadn’t said :) They look perfect on the tag.
Amazing project.
Fabulous ideas and techniques.
Awesome! Lovely
work on this and
so pretty. Happy
Halloween.
Carla from Utah
Love all the fall colors and the dimension.
Pretty tag! Llove the texture!
Gorgeous tag!! Love all the colors and techniques used!!
What a beautiful Fall mixed media tag! Love the pumpkins
Such a nice texture. Love the pumpkins!
VERY, very nice! Love the colors and the little pumpkins!
Wow, amazing
Beautiful! I love fall colors!! Thanks for sharing this.
love this beautiful fall creation!
Awesome tag – I might leave off the 3-D pumpkins, etc. so I could use as a bookmark.
Stunning!!
Holy cow, this is just gorgeous! I love all of the beautiful texture, color, and dimension!
Wow, this is really stunning!!
Love all the textures of the different types of media.
WOW!! This is stunning mixed medai tag! Love everything on it!
Oooh what a fab tag, love all the colours :)
Gorgeous tag-love all the dimension!
Fall is a favorite season of mine and the tag really reminds me of fall! Thank you
Stunning tag!!!
Wow-fabulous tag! So much texture, dimension & lovely fall colors!
So much to see – what a wonderful tag! x
This tag is gorgeous! All those layers and the color combination screams autumn! I have been holding off using the crazing medium too much but seeing how you used it and the effect where the script shows through from beneath, makes me want to try it in a few different applications. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece!
Such an amazing tag! What great texture and colors! Love all these techniques and completed look! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Such an amazing tag! What great texture and colors! Love all these techniques and completed look! Thanks for the inspiration :)
I just returned from a trip in upper New England and the leaves today look just as beautiful as nature.
Gorgeous mixed media tag. Thanks for the tutorial.
Wow, gorgeous!
Wonderful combination of techniques! Gorgeous tag!
Celebrate the colors of the season!
Those little (squashed) pumpkins look wonderful on your beautiful tag!
Beautiful tag! Thanks for the detailed instructions.
Beautiful design elements and texture. Great way to celebrate the season.
Gorgeous…so many beautiful elements!
Beautiful tag you have created. Love all of the elements you have added to make this a true mixed media project!
Wow! Amazing tag! Love the fall colors and textures! Thanks for the tutorial!
Gorgeous tag! Love those leaves!
Such a beautiful tag!! Love the cheerful colors! thank you for sharing!!
Wonderful detailed Autumn Tag.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
beautiful texture and color. . .
So neat!
Adorable tag for Autumn!
I love this tag! The textures, the colors, the sparkle…simply fabulous!
Wow, so much texture and beauty here. I love fall! Gorgeous tag!
Gorgeous colors!!!