Welcome to my first blog post! I wanted my first post to be really special, so I choose this tag I made that combines two of the things I love doing—crafting and reading! I loved this Jane’s doodle stamp because I feel it represents me. I feel the same excitement when I am surrounded by books and I am really glad that Jane’s doodle has created such an awesome stamp! Without any further ado, let’s get started with making this tag.
For the background, I die cut the bricks using the Sizzix Mix Media #3 die.
I then stuck the bricks individually on a pre-cut tag that I had bought from a local craft store. In the below picture, I have used white bricks on a cream coloured tag just for demonstration purpose.
For the last step of the background, I trimmed down the bricks that were outside the Tag and coloured them using Fired Brick Distress Ink from Ranger, and then distressed the edges using Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
Once the background was done, I stamped the girl image from Jane’s Doodles’ Read All About It stamp set on Canson XL Mix Media paper. I decided to stamp the pile of books, from the same stamp set, three times on watercolour paper.
I then fussy cut the stamped images using Tim Holtz Mini Snips; these are perfect for cutting small images and I recommend you have one of these in your craft supply.
After cutting the images, I used Copic Black Brush Marker to cover up the white portion on the sides of the images so that the finished pieces look good and the white paper isn’t visible in the corners. You could use any marker of your choice, but I used the Copic marker as it is waterproof, and I wanted to watercolour the images. It is not necessary for you to use the marker for the edges, but I do so because I really like how the finished piece turns out when this is done. After this, I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to colour the die cut images, however, you can use any type of colouring medium you prefer.
Then, I stuck the three piles of books one over the other on the tag using Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue and stuck the girl beside them.
The next step was stamping the sentiment. I stamped the sentiment inside a speech bubble using Tim Holtz Stamp Platform; this tool is something I can’t do without because it helps me stamp images accurately. I then fuzzy cut the speech bubble, and again used Copic Black Brush Marker for the sides to cover the white edges.
I die cut the heart from a white cardstock using the smallest heart die from Sizzix’s Photo Love die set, and then, embossed it with Stampendous’ Aged Gold embossing enamel and stuck it on the speech bubble.
Finally, I sealed the Tag using Distress Glaze by Tim Holtz. This glaze is a water-resistant sealant and is perfect for protecting your work.
I hope you’ll enjoyed this post and if you’ll have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Supplies used:
- Read all about it stamp set by Jane’s Doodles
- Mix Media #3 die by Sizzix
- Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting Machine
- Fired Brick Distress Ink by Ranger
- Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Ranger
- Canson XL Mix Media paper
- Tim Holtz Mini Snips
- Copic Black Brush Marker
- Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers
- Tim Holtz Stamp Platform
- Heart from Sizzix Photo Love die set
- Aged Gold embossing enamel by Stampendous
- Distress Glaze by Tim Holtz
- Round sponge Ink Blending Tool by Inkssentials
- Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
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This tag is so cool. Thank you for explaining it so well. I am surely going to try it.❤️
Thank you so much! ☺️