Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey

Hello lovely visitors, - it's the last Friday of the month and in a month where there are 5 Fridays that means tag Friday at A Vintage Journey.

When it's a tag Friday members of the Vintage Journey DT post a tag just for the fun of it and to hopefully give you a little inspiration. But, and here comes the fun bit, with the changes we've brought in for the new birthday year we thought you might like to join in and share what tags you have been making. There isn't a prize and we're not promising any comments but the host of this month's challenge (Brenda) will choose one of those submitted as a Pinworthy and it will be pinned on our Pinterest Board and showcased in next month's Winner's post. To enter link one or as many tags as you want that you have made and blogged in this month (ie  between the 1st to the 31st March). The linky will close midnight on the 6th April which is when the new challenge begins so you have one week to get your entries in but remember they can come from any March 2018 blog date. Have fun.

Now to my tag, I recently discovered Foamiran for flower making. Now I have never been very good at making flowers, but I love the realistic look this stuff gives to your flowers, so I watched a great many youtube video tutorials and here is the result of my first attempt:

The little flower was made with an old Spellbinders die, the larger rose, was created with the help of single petals from a die that is actually meant to create peonies. I coloured them with Distress spray and hot glued them onto a Tim Holtz Layered Leaf.

The background to my tag was created by speading texture paste over the tag with a palette knife and then pressing some lace and a text stamp into it to create some texture.

I then sprinkled some Stampendous embossing powder into the still wet texture paste and dried it all with my heatgun.

Next colour was added with the help of acrylic paint in Titan Buff and Burnt Umber and some Ground Espresso Distress Spray.

Then all I had to do was adhere the leaf and flower spray to the tag, add a sentiment using Tim Holtz word chips, some ribbon at the top and  was done.

Below a few close ups still:

Well, that's it from me, I hope you'll add a tag or two that you have made to our Vintage Journey post, we would love to see them! Thank you for your visit like always and happy crafting!

xxxxx