Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Tags Made with Ink-Sprayed and Ink-Stained Coffee Filters

This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge theme is Food/Drink.  I decided to experiment with some coffee filters.  After I colored the coffee filters, I ripped them up and sewed some of the scraps onto tags.  Behold the final product!

I started with coffee filters.  I laid them flat on my craft mat and went to town inking them up.  I started by spritzing each coffee filter with a bit of water.  Then I shook on some Infusions colored stain.  These stains have built in granules of brown, so the color mixes in with those brown tones and dots.  If you want more color to remain, go easy on the water.  If you want less color and more of the brown to show up, spray it with more water.  Once I sprinkled the Infusions stain granules on, I added one more spritz of water and started adding spray inks, too.  I used Distress Oxide spray and Distress Stain spray.  The oxides give a more "chalky" look that is less translucent than the Distress Stain spray.

After I let the coffee filters dry out. I ripped them into scraps.  I have to admit that I was kind of sad ripping them, though.  I liked how the complete coffee filters looked, but I wanted to be able to incorporate them into tags, and I couldn't think of a different way to do that other than ripping them into smaller pieces.

Next I cut two tags out of Tim Holtz's French Industrial paper using a tag die from Maker's Movement.  I took some coffee filter scraps and layered them up.  Then I stuck a piece of Washi tape onto the scraps and sewed the coffee filter bundles onto my tags.  Once that was done, I added some painted polka dots.  I also cut sentiments out of a Dina Wakley tissue paper collage collection and these were done!

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Simon Says Stamp Coffee Filters	Makers Movement Nested Box Tags Die Set	Tim Holtz 12x12 French Industrial Paper Pack	AALL & Create Inspire Washi Tape	Paper-Artsy-ROYAL-BLOOD-Infusions-Colored-Stain	Paper-Artsy-EMERALD-ISLE-Infusions-Colored-Stain	Paper Artsy VIOLET STORMS Infusions Colored Stain
Paper-Artsy-ARE-YOU-CERISE-Infusions-Colored-Stain	Paper Artsy LEMONCELLO Infusions Colored Stain CS04	Paper Artsy GREEN MAN Infusions Colored Stain CS18	Paper Artsy RUSTY CAR Infusions Colored Stain CS17	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Oxide-Spray-TUMBLED-GLASS-Ranger	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Oxide-Spray-CRUSHED-OLIVE-Ranger	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Oxide-Spray-WEATHERED-WOOD-Ranger
Tim-Holtz-Distress-Spray-Stain-2021-Salvaged Patina	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain in Twisted Citron	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain MUSTARD SEED	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Spray-Stain-2021 KITSCH FLAMINGO	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain PICKED RASPBERRY Ranger	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Turquoise paint
Dina Wakley Ranger Blushing acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Olive Acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Tangerine paint	Dina Wakley LEMON Media Acrylic Paint	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET Reusable 15 X 18 Stamp Paint Ink

How will you celebrate the food/drink theme this week?  Be sure to upload your clever creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Valentine's Tag using AALL & Create's On Cloud 9 and City Living Stamp Sets

Another new week and another new challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.  I've got to be honest -- Valentine's Day has never been my favorite "holiday".  In fact, if I made a list of my top holidays/occasions, it would not even make the upper 50.  It would be more like a -27.  I mean, sure!  I have a couple of good Valentine's Day memories, but for the most part, it has been a total downer day for about 99.8% of my life.  But hey!  That certainly doesn't mean I can't crank out a tag for this week's theme of "love is in the air."  I'm just saying that if you are a fellow non-fan of Valentine's Day, you've got a soul sister here.

I started by cutting a tag out of Kraft paper using Waffle Flower's Nesting Tags dies.  Then I painted the background with white acrylic paint and spritzed it with Distress Ink and Dina Wakley's Media Gloss Spray and let the inks and sprays drizzle and drip down the tag.

While that was drying, I stamped and fussy-cut some buildings, a cloud and a sentiment from AALL & Create's stamp sets (On Cloud 9 and City Living).  Then I painted the buildings with acrylic paint.

I glued the pieces to my tag and cut out some hearts using Simon Says Stamp's Mini Hearts die set.  I love the shapes of these hearts!  I painted them pink and added them to my tag.  I outlined the whole thing with a black pen and this was done.

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Simon Says Stamp MINI HEARTS SET Wafer Dies	AALL & Create On Cloud Nine stamp set	AALL & Create City Living stamp set	Waffle Flower Nesting Tags dies	Tim-Holtz-85-X-11-DISTRESS-KRAFT-HEAVYSTOCK-Ranger	Dina Wakley Sky Gloss Spray	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Spray-Stain-2021-Salvaged Patina
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Sky acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Ranger NIGHT acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Ranger LAPIS 1 oz Media Acrylic Paint	Dina Wakley Turquoise paint	Dina Wakley Ranger BLACKBERRY 1OZ Media Acrylic Paints MDQ53958	Dina Wakley LEMON Media Acrylic Paint
Dina Wakley Lime paint	Dina Wakley Tangerine paint	Dylusions Laidback Lilac Paint	Dylusions Tropical Sangria

Whether you've a fan of Valentine's Day or not (at least chocolate is plentiful this time of year), please do upload your creations to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.