Snapping Monsters: My Cards and Tags using Concord & 9th's Orange You Sweet Stamps and Dies

Monday, June 25, 2018

My Cards and Tags using Concord & 9th's Orange You Sweet Stamps and Dies

We're being inspired by food and drink this week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I made a set of tags using a lovely citrus wheel as part of the background.

I love it when stamps and dies can serve double-duty and I love the spokey-spikey look of these citrus circles! They're from Concord & 9th's "Orange You Sweet" stamp set and corresponding dies. I also used the scribbly circle from the set to outline the citrus circles.

I used a variety of tag dies, too, which are listed below.

As usual, my starting point was Strathmore Mixed Media paper, which I painted around the edges of with acrylic ink.

I glued a band of patterned paper (polka dots from Simple Stories) to the bottom of each tag and also added in some scraps of Tim Holtz's Correspondence paper (one of my all-time favorite patterns).

I scribbled black around the edges using Prima Oil Pastel Crayons and smudged them a bit using a blending stump.

I cut out one of my citrus wheels and used it as a stencil, then cut some more out and glued them on to the tags. I colored sections with Distress Ink and Hero Arts ink. The big sentiment words (some words which I Frankenstein-ed together by cutting up individual letters) are flash cards from Tim Holtz.