A non-oriental oriental tag

Carol's second Paperartsy project was an Oriental themed tag using one of the new Lynne Perrella stamps. I don't have any of these, to be honest they are not totally my style, although the one Carol used is gorgeous... so I had to adapt the theme more than somewhat!!

I did use a size 10 tag and a variety of similar coloured paints to Carol's choice - I kept slapping them on, so not 100% sure which ones - nougat, mermaid, beach hut, guacamole I think.

I had to do this twice as the first layer was too regimented and also the wet nougat puddling that looked so good on Carol's, didn't - but I figured it was because I dried the first load of colours, and you need it to blend... second time round it looks ok.

Next to decide on the main image....










I decided to use the 'dream' girl from ID02 and stamped her on the Paperartsy smoothy card.   I have just bought 5 of Tim's Distress Markers and used them to colour the script on her dress.

The gold UTEE that Carol used, I don't have - I did try to colour some of my clear UTEE with a normal gold embossing powder, but wasn't too happy with the results, to in the end used gold ink and the clear UTEE.  I don't know what happened but I didn't get the bubbling effect that Carol did, when trying to leave the powder not fully melted... anyhow, I edged the tag all round and stamped a script stamp in the top left corner (this is the one with the home-made mix of powder.)

I used the small splatter stamp in gold ink, randomly over the tag before embossing that with the UTEE too.

I stamped some butterflies (Stamp-It Australia) and coloured them with my distress markers and then gold embossed them (it was a hologram powder, bit too much sparkle, so I went over them again with the distress markers)

to finish, I found some gold edged bluey-green ribbon (and a piece of black) and some black rik-rak.

I stamped 'wisdom' on a scrap of painted tag and edged it with a mix of beach hut paint, gold krylon pen and black ink