Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: Ali CT

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Ali CT - Dragonfly Art Tag

Phew this weather has been a bit blinking hot, ink was drying on the stamp before it hit the paper. Had an inky hour with some of my favourite distress oxide colours and made this tag using the gorgeous Bee Crafty Stamps Dragonfly Art set☺

I took a #10 Dyna Wakley tag, dripped a little distress oxide spray at the top of the tag using the tube and spritzed with water while holding the tag upright. I used Kitsch Flamingo, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio. Then dried it with a heat gun.

Then brushed the same colours in distress oxide ink through parts of the Abstract Circles Inkable.

Then flicked water using a fan brush over the tag, left it for a few seconds and mopped it up to faux bleach it. Re-dried the tag with a heat gun.

Next I patted an antistatic pad all over the dry tag.

I used my stamping platform to stamp the large Dragonfly Art stamp with black versafine ink, then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

Stamped the lace in black at the top left and bottom right, and then the clock and postmark in a few places.

Stamped the word ART and the postmark using kitsch flamingo distress oxide.

Inked just the dragonfly part of the big art stamp with black versafine and clear heat embossed as before. Coloured the dragonfly with pink blue and purple watercolour pens and a damp paintbrush, then cut it out with scissors.

Used the same pens to paint some of the details on the tag.

Then I used a blending tool to ink the edges of the tag in black.

Next I stamped one of the sentiments from Ticker Tape One in black versafine ink and clear heat embossed.

I cut out the words and fixed them to the tag with pva glue. Applied 3d glue gel under the base of the dragonfly wings to raise them. Added a few highlights to the stamped images with a white gel pen.