We are finally into September! Hooray! I love this time of the year, even though my project this week is rather Spring-y looking. Our theme this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog is to incorporate a clear element, so I used some widow plastic to give some dimension to my butterflies. We're also featuring stamps from Visible Image and they have some great products.
This tag background was frankly a mess, so that's why there aren't any process pics. I changed it about eighty times. I had a white paint layer at one point and added some Infusions (Royal Blood and Slime shades) and spritzed it with water (shown below). For the flower, I stamped it twice: once on my tag and once on some collage paper I'd made. I fussy-cut some sections out of the collaged flower paper, then glued those sections onto the flower I'd stamped onto my tag.
For the butterflies, I stamped the butterfly image onto some more collage paper I had leftover from previous projects. I cut out the butterflies, then stamped the butterfly image on the window plastic. I cut out the clear butterflies and outlined them with a Sharpie.
Next I folded the clear butterflies in half and sewed them to the paper butterflies using a sewing machine.
I added blue and green acrylic paint to the tag and splattered some white Amsterdam Acrylic Ink onto the background. I glued my butterflies onto the tag and stamped the word "love" along the stem of the flower. I used a black Sharpie to draw over any of the stamped lines that hadn't stamped dark enough.
Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:
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