Hello! It’s Robyn Wood with you today sharing a colourful, watercoloured tag project. I love the ease of using watercolour for a variety of projects and find that once you have mastered a few techniques, the options are endless.
For this project, I trimmed a tag shape from some cream cardstock scrap and covered parts of the surface with dribbles of masking fluid. You need to allow masking fluid plenty of time to dry so it doesn’t ruin your brushes.
Once the masking fluid was dry, I simply painted over the surface of the tag with watercolour. I’ve used a liquid watercolour to make the process nice & quick. Liquid watercolour can easily be blended or watered down to give different colours and washes. Once the tag was dry, I simply rubbed the masking fluid away with my fingers.
I stamped a greeting and flower stamp using Archival black ink. The greeting was trimmed closely and mounted onto a cardstock layer using Helmar Scrap Dots.
The flower image had been stamped onto watercolour cardstock, making it nice and easy to blend watercolours to create a soft effect. I then fussy cut my flower.
While the pink watercolour was in use, I painted a scrap of watercolour card so that I could punch out a scalloped circle to go on the top of my tag.
The tag was assembled using Helmar Tacky Glue to adhere the flower, greeting and tag top. I then threaded the tag with a short length of pretty ribbon and it was done.
Supplies:
- Helmar Tacky Craft Glue
- Helmar Scrap Dots
- Darkroom Door Fine Flowers Vol 2 & Simple Sayings stamp sets
- Archival black ink
- Masking Fluid
- Liquid watercolour
I hope you have enjoyed learning how this project was created and I’d love to see what you create! Until next time…
