Mixed Media Floral Tags + News
Hi readers! Happy Monday to you! I’m pleased to be back with some gorgeous Prima inspired tags by the fantastic and talented Sharon Laakkonen! Have you seen her work? It is consistently AMAZING!
This post is a bit of a tease as we have LOTS of Prima coming very soon! Be sure to check back to see what’s new often!! Did you know that there is currently a dock strike going on in the USA? It’s causing lots of delays in getting these new goodies to us so that we can get them to YOU! We hope that this will be settled soon so that we can get all of these great products that are held up IN STOCK!
Tags are a wonderful, and very FORGIVING, canvas for trying new art techniques! If you mess up, or don’t like the look, just cover with an embellishment and move on! (Or flip the tag over and start again!) I love to add a touch of mixed-media to my papercrafts and hope this post encourages you to try it too!
I mixed a few of my favorite NEW Prima products together on Julie Nutting’s Armoire tags to see how they would look and was so excited with the results!
Of course I had to showcase some of Prima’s brand-new flowers, wood words (with gold foil!), mixed-media stamps and stencils… along with the gorgeous flowers and Valentina heart sticks (which are so fun for DIY crafts!) So here’s how I created the tags!
Beauty Tag: Step 1: Mix 3D Gloss Gel with Art Sugar and Micro-Beads together (I just use the lid of my gel and wash it out afterward.) Step 2: Dab mixture over Bloom stencil of choice on all three tags. (I used the circle stencil on tag 1, 6×6 stencil on tag 2, and chevron stencil on tag 3.) Step 3: Dry and decorate! Tip: Sprinkle more beads on top of design before gel dries for extra sparkles.
Step 4: Stamp on your tag with a mixed-media stamp and Archival ink. The MM stamp gives a trendy, layered look with just one stamp.
Step 5: Add a square of cheesecloth, a wood icon, and a few flowers to start giving your tag dimension and shape. Finish with small flowers, leaves, lace, and tulle. Loop tulle and lace through tag top.
Love Tag:
Tag 2 shows off the 6×6 stencil and dress-form mixed-media stamp!
Once the gel mixture is dry randomly stamp on tag with black Archival ink and the dress-form MM stamp by Prima! Add a large ribbon bow to the center. Glue on Valentina heart picks. Add flowers, leaves, and top off with a wood icon saying! Loop twine through tag top.
Butterfly Tag:
This tag is bright and cheery! Instead of stamping glue a piece of frilly new Memory Hardware ribbon down the right side as shown. Next add flowers, starting with the largest flowers and tucking in smaller ones to create a vine effect. (Save room for three vellum butterflies.)
Add pink tulle bow 1/3 up from bottom. Attach butterflies with foam squares for extra lift! Finish with a quote cut from the Bella Rouge journaling card. Loop tulle through tag top.
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I have always been a huge fan of all things Prima, especially their gorgeous flowers. Such fabulous creations!
Beautiful tags with such elegant details. Love the stencils textures that you added too!
Love the 3D medium + microbeads mix! Lovely results!
Wow!! Fabulous tags!!! I love Prima stencils!!
The finished tags are amazing, and I love Julie Nutting’s Armoire tags. What a wonderful starter they are.
The flowers are beautiful and they make fabulous tags.
thanks for sharing
So beautiful and romantic tags! I love what you did with these great new Prima products (oh! more things for my wishlist…!) and the colors you have used! Thank you for sharing and inspiring us!
Wow, simply stunning tags, so beautifully crafted with all the pretty embellishments!!!
Wow these are stunning!!!
wonderful tags!
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Wow how gorgeous! The tags are lovely when they are bare so anything you added is icing on the cake. Simply lovely!
Works of art! These are absolutely blow-me-away stunning! Wow!
~c
Beautiful projects. No fun, waiting for a dock strike to be done. Many years ago, when my dad was in the Air Force, there was on that held up our ‘household goods”
If you don’t like the dock strike, tell your fellow manufacturers to put pressure on the PMA, not on the workers – who don’t make anything like what the PMA likes to quote. More lies by big biz to keep the money in massive profits (which are running rampant in this country) vs. putting the money into good wages. A small number of people making millions in profits (taxed at 15%) will never do as much good for the economy as a large number of people making tens of thousands (taxed at 28%).
Those flowers are gorgeous
Love all those gorgeous embellishments on the love tag!
WOW!! THOSE FLOWERS ARE AMAZING… AND THE COLORS ARE SO PRETTY!!
I love the gorgeous flowery tags, they look so romantic!
Very pretty!
The tags are absolutely beautiful! really great pieces of ART!
Loving those new stencils!
Beautiful tags :-D
These are so pretty. I really like the one with the butterflies, it’s so elegant.
These are such gorgeous tags!
Wonderful tag, love these… Hurry hurry new prima products on your shop
HOW BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;) JUST GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
These are just beautiful…soft and colourful!
These tags are gorgeous.
Gorgeous tags! Thank You for sharing ♥
I have always loved Prima products…
Always cool to see more mixed media projects. One of these days I’ll have to give it a try!
Wow! Stunning tags, can’t wait to see more from Prima! x
Always love the mixed media stuff
I really like the color combo… so fresh!
Beautiful! Love the new Armoire tags!
Prima always has yummy stuff!
The flowers are gorgeous on this tag!
Wow, fabulous mixed media tags. Thanks for the tutorial!
Thanks for the beautiful inspiration!!!
Gorgeous tags, I really need to get into mixed media, I really love the creativity and different textures!
Those tags are gorgeous! Love the Prima flowers!
So sad on the dock slow down, it is impacting so many people in so many ways!
I love these tags! They are so gorgeous and elegant!~kim
Bee-utiful tags. Like the base paper & embellishments. Especially like the Butterflies.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Beautiful tags! PRIMA flowers are amazing!
Gotta love Prima. These tags are gorgeous. Hugz
Love all the tags, especially the butterfly one. Really love the circles stencil and want it for my stash.
Beautiful Tags!
Very pretty–the flowers on these tags are gorgeous!
These tags are gorgeous. Love all the embellishments.
Prima has such lovely products and it is so nice to see how they can be used and combined. Beautiful tags.