A Tag for Thursday

 Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. Today I want to share a tag I made for Valerie's Anything Goes challenge over at Tag Tuesday.

     The other day I was going through my stencil bin and came across a few of the old brass stencils. I don't know if you remember them, but they were meant to be used under a light box with a probe like tool or a needle, depending if you wanted an embossed design or a punched design.

      I decided to see if I could get any design from my brass stencils, and if not, I was going to pass them along to someone who may want them. First I tried using one in my die cutting machine to see if I could get an embossed image, but the minute embossing that happened basically meant that wasn't going to work. Then I decided to try some stencil paste, and guess what? That worked.  I was able to get even the smaller openings to show up. I then stenciled this quilt look design a few times on some colored background papers.

     And if you try this for the first time, I just recommend you was your brass stencils under the faucet because if the stencil paste dries in any of the little openings, your stencil won't work next time.

     The images have since dried, and Valerie asked for tags with the theme of anything goes, so I decided to use one of my stenciled pieces on a tag. 

     I stamped this small alphabet image several times in light pink ink; then I took my stenciled image and cut it out of the part of the sheet of paper where I had stenciled it. I wanted to amp up the color a bit (since the stencil paste was pale pink), so I rubbed some brighter pink pigment ink over it and dried it.

    I outlined the edge of my tag with black ink, outlined parts of the stenciled image with a Sharpie, and stamped my quote in black ink. Then I also added a small half pearl to my tag. I also added some white paper lace trim along the bottom.

   And yesterday I shared the ring around the moon, today I'll show you last night's moon and a view in my backyard just before it was pitch dark.

Have a great day or rest of your day.