FFC-126 Seashells

• Welcome back my friends!  I hope you are well.  I was thinking some warm thoughts during this cold week as I put together this week’s challenge.  This week’s sponsor is A Day for Daisies; I chose the image Treasure.

Treasure tag

To create this tag, I did the following:

1. Print the image onto Crafter’s Companion White Ultra Smooth Premium Cardstock.
2. Color your image with Alcohol Markers.  I used Spectrum

   coloring digi part 1

   Noir Alcohol Markers with the following color combinations:

   1. Skin – FS1, FS2, FS5, FS8
   2.  Hari – GB8, GB10, EB7
   3.  Bathing Suit – CR3, CR4, CR6
   4. Sand – TN2, TN3, TN7
   5. Seashells – TN3, TN3, FS5
   6. Ocean – BT3, BT6, BT7, DG3

      coloring digi part 2

   7. Sky – TB2, TB3, TB7
3. Notice as part of the image coloring digi part 2 underneath the image, on a scrap part of the paper, I did several practice blends.  I highly recommend you do this too.
4. Cut a circle of cardstock.  Tip:  My favorite circle and oval cutters are from Creative Memories.  Of all the ones I have tried over the years, these work best.
5. Cover the cardstock in gesso.  Hint:  I use two coats.  Thin coats will dry quickly.
6. Now there is a white surface for your chipboard.  Using gesso is necessary only if you use raw (uncoated) chipboard.  I chose to cover the chipboard with Distress Ink.
7. Use the Tim Holtz Blender tool to cover the chipboard.  I

   tag part 1

   used the following colors:  Rusty Hinge, Gathered Twig, Salty Ocean, and Stormy Sky.

8. I used two stamps on the tags.  First, I used a seashell background stamp with brown chalk ink then wave boarder stamp with Broken China ink.

   tag part 2

9. I used glue dots to glue down the colored image onto the tag.

I hope you will give this tag a try!

Now my crafty friends, it is YOUR turn to show us what you can do for this challenge!

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Michelle