Without Change There Would Be No Butterflies

Hi guys, I've got a mixed media creation to show you today which I made by combining them with some of the fabulous products from

Swedish House Crafts,

I have a little step by step tutorial for you on how I created this,

Take the Gummiapan Large old tag die and cut the tag out of some card board, ( I Used some old Packaging from a delivery)

At the same time die cut the bottom section of the tag again,

Spray both pieces of the tags with some water on the right hand side, then spread it a little with your fingers,

Gently pull back the top layer of the card board so it leaves the corrugated section showing, it is fine to leave patches of the top layer still in place, as shown below,

Do the same for the other piece too,

Paint your card stock tag with a layer of gesso, then when dry add some inks or sprays of your choice, I used some Prima Colour Bloom sprays,

After the sprays are dry I added a little of my handmade structure paste but you can use Grunge paste or similar, dry well, I also added some on the other section too, sorry not shown on the picture below!

When the structure paste was totally dry I stamped up a brick stamp by Gummiapan over the top using some Memento ink pad in Tuxedo Black,

I then added another bit of the sprays here and there,

This shows the structure paste added on the smaller section, on top of which I have stamped another  Gummiapan stamp over the structure paste which I did in the same way as above, I then cut the height of the section down a little,

At this stage I used three colours of the memento ink pads, just gliding them along some of the colour card stock by crafters companion, at this stage you can die cut some more tag sections out of thick card if they need it for extra strength at the back,

Then taking the Gummiapan butterfly stamps in Medium and the large sizes I stamped these over the top, this way each butterfly gets different colours,

Fussy cut them out,

To finish my tag off I used some eyelets from the mixed meadow pack on the bottom of the top section and the top of the lower one, joining both by adding some jump rings through, I then used a Laser Owe Love chipboard piece, keeping it in it's natural state, 

then I glued the butterflies in place,

How it looks on the wall,

Products used:

Gummiapan Large Old Tag Die

Gummiapan - Butterfly Morpho / Medium

Gummiapan - Without change....

Gummiapan - Brick stamp

Laser Owe love chipboard

Memento ink - Tuxedo Black

Memento Ink pad - Morocco

memento ink pad - Dandelion

Memento ink pad - Pistachio

Eyelets - mixed meadow

Happy Crafting!!

Mixed Media Tag

Hi guys, I recently altered a wooden tag from my stash, using paints, chip board, structure paste, stamps, lace, papers etc, I really enjoyed myself !!!

I started with some Maja Design papers cut to the shape, on the top left corner I added some lace in between , I then painted  over the top pf these with clear Gesso and used my heat gun to set it,

I added some light stencil work with some structure paste and let that dry,

When everything was dry I added some Prima sprays and paints to get the look I was after,

I then did some stamping here and there,

I found this fab French Window by Dusty Attic in my stash and painted the base with white Gesso, when dry I stamped a script stamp over the top, then some crackle paint, when this dried I went over the top here and there with a silks paint to give an aged look,

Behind this I added some antique looking lace,

I glued the Dusty Attic Window in place then added a flower head I had cut in half behind the window frame,

I took some Dusty Attic Bricks and painted them with my silks paints, then glued them in place, I also added some twine from my stash too,

I found some more Dusty Attic pieces in my stash and I glued these beneath the window and peeking out of some paper flowers,

I finished off the bottom of my tag with this devine frame set, I coloured with with a few different colours of silk paints, as well as highlighting the other pieces too, I added a few art stones down the edges and colourd them then toned some of them and the bricks down a little with a hint of white Gesso to give an aged effect,

And this is it in situ in my hall, Lol

Mixed media Place - August Challenge

Happy Crafting!!!