Thank You Tag

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Hi everyone.  Today I made a CAS tag for the new Tag You're It! Challenge #1 - be inspired by Virginia Lu's CAS tags.

I LOVE all three of Virginia's tags, so wanted to play along.  I kept her color combination and used white embossing for the flowers and "thank".  The "You" is a die from Simon Says.  After sponging and heat embossing the tag, I thought it needed something more, so ran it through my Big Shot with the brick embossing folder - love the added texture and interest!

Stamps:  Paradise (Heidi Grace); A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:  110 lb. white (Neenah)
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise (SU!); Versamark
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, white embossing powder, heat tool, Brick embossing folder (Tim Holtz), You die (Simon Says), green satin ribbon

I've had a few requests for instructions on how I made Kylie's birthday card I posted a couple of days ago.  I'll include a small picture of the card and the instructions below.  Thanks so much for the interest!

I started by mixing heavy gloss gel (clear) with gold paint.  It looks milky gold when mixed together, but once it dries, it leaves a translucent gold that is so pretty.  I spread it randomly over a harlequin stencil.

The leaves are die-cut from watercolor paper.  I squirted three shades of orange ink onto my craft sheet, misted with water, dragged the leaves through the diluted ink, and then let them dry.  I repeated this a couple more times, drying in-between each addition.  In the end, I had very saturated shades of orange and rust - love how it turned out.  A friend of mine thought this should be called the "Saturated Watercolor Technique" and I think that's a perfect name - thanks Nancy! :)  When the leaves were dry, I misted them with gold shimmer paint ... hard to see in the photo, but the leaves sparkle.  I also removed the pump from the spray mist and let larger drops drip from the end over the leaves.  The happy die was cut from gold foil paper and white (three layers in all and glued together to make it thick) and I stamped the "birthday" in gold paint and then cut it out and popped it up on the card.  To finish I took several loops of fine, gold thread and tied them into a bow.  Here's the products I used for the card ...

Stamps:  A Little Sentimental (Clearly Besotted)
Paper:  110 lb. white for base (Neenah); watercolor for leaves (Arches 140 lb. cold press); Gold Foil (SU!)
Ink:  Re-inkers:  Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Cajun Craze (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Tattered Leaves die (Tim Holtz for Sizzix), happy die (Simon Says), harlequin stencil (cut with my Silhouette Cameo), heavy gel gloss (Golden), gold paint (Lumiere), water mister, frost white acrylic paint (for making shimmer mist along with gold paint and water), gold thread