Destination Inspiration - Arriving at Terminal 1

Hello!  Anne here to welcome you to Terminal 1, our first stop on the August

Destination Inspiration journey.  This month in our Travel Bag we have:

#1 Product - Paint

#2 Technique - Resist (paint, embossing, mediums)

#3 Colour - Smokey Grey/Blue

#4 Substrate - Tag

Here is a look at my finished tag.  

I am on a mission to use some of my older stamps!

I gathered together some of the items I wanted to use - a white tag base (cut from Ranger Speciality Stamping paper), Tim Holtz Remnant Rubs and a Tim Holtz stamp set - Artful Tools.

I decided to use a paint resist technique.  I applied Black Soot Distress Paint, with a small

piece of Cut and Dry foam, to the stamp, working quickly as the paint does dry quite fast (you 

may want to practice this technique on a scrap piece of card first).  I stamped the impression 

onto the card and set this aside to dry naturally.  The paint creates a wonderful resist.

Make sure you wash your stamp straight away as dried paint and stamps are not

a great combination!

Next I added Remnant Rubs to the other side of the tag.  Remnant Rubs will also act as

a resist.

I created this layer of colour by smooshing the Stormy Sky Distress Ink onto my mat

and spritzed it with some water and then dragged my tag though the colour.  You may need

to do this a few times, drying between each layer, to build up a good cover.

I omitted to take a photograph of the next step but I used a paint brush, dipped in water to

remove some of the blue colour from the the brushes as I wanted to add some further colour.

You could leave the blue and paint over but the added colours will be less 'true' if you do that.

I also distressed the edges of the tag with a distressing tool and applied Story Sky

Distress Ink to the edges.

Once the tag was dry, I added some colour with several colours of Distress Ink (Stormy Sky, Fired Brick and Brushed Corduroy), watered down, to the stamped brushes, to give them a bit of 

a lift.  You could use brighter colours but I wanted an 'aged' look.

Next, I stamped the brushes onto some masking paper, cut out each brush and placed

these over the brushes so that I could add some splattering to body of the tag only.

To finish off I added some more Remnant Rubs to the bottom and a bow at the top,

made from vintage seam binding coloured with Fired Brick Distress Spray Stain. 

I do love using resist techniques, it just adds another dimension to your crafting!

I hope you have enjoyed your Terminal 1 stop today and that you will check in again next Monday

to see what my next team mate comes up with, using the contents of the travel bag.

In the meantime, our lovely Amanda has kicked off another challenge theme - Stencil It - 

and one lucky entrant will win a £20 voucher from the fabulous Country View Crafts.

Take care and happy crafting!  Hugs, Anne xx