Hi everyone. It's Tuesday, and it's time for a new challenge at Try It on Tuesday. 😊This is a scheduled post as I'm off on a girl's trip. However, I had time to make a small piece for our new challenge which is:
GET READY FOR CHRISTMAS
Before I get to my latest art, let me thank everyone who joined our Make It Magical challenge. There was some fun magical art. Just like our last challenge, my design team piece is a tag. Since I was painting and inking up the background and since basically I used stickers, I actually made 2 tags, since making 2 was as easy (and even more) as making one.
I made these tags by first painting the background with some gold gesso with a big brush. It left lots of streaky lines which, when dried, looked a bit like painted wood texture. Then I used red and green inks to add some traditional holiday color.
I had a packet that came with 3 sheets of peel away stickers. This product was from Dazzles/Hot Off The Press. The sticker sheets were red, green and gold. They all contained the same ornaments, so I was able to combine parts of red ornaments with green and/or gold ones. And vice versa. I really like how that gave the ornaments some oomph. Then I used some half pearls and flat backed gemstones on some of the ornaments to make them less flat.
I also had a sheet of sticker words, so I used those for my quotes. I had to do that since I have yet to pull out my December holiday craft supplies. (When I get home from my few days away I need to clean up my art space a bit as it is a disaster zone- big time. Once I get the floor picked up I can take out my box of Christmas/holiday crafting supplies. 😉)
Finally, I finished off my tags with a splatter of white acrylic paint. Falling snow works at Christmas in many places, right?
Be sure to check out the other ideas from the design team, and I hope you'll be making holiday cards and other things to share with us at Try It on Tuesday. I don't make a lot of cards and am always looking for Christmas card ideas. ❤
I am also linking a up these tags to Pinky's Make Your Own Background challenge over at Tag Along (and ATC's Too). Since I'm away, it might take me a couple of days to do that.
Thanks for stopping by.
