Fizzy DesignsUK

Fairy and flower cartonnage gift tag or home decor -  Day 157 of my 365 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Well the sun is shining today which makes a lovely change and for my challenge today, I have been playing with tag shaped cartonnage/chipboard shapes. How I made this project:- These are, I think chipboard/cartonnage label shaped tags (not MDF) and I think I should have painted it first with some Gesso to act as  a primer but still I think it still turned out ok. I used Tattered Angels Colour Wash paints (blues, greens, browns and a hint of yellow to colour in the background. I let each coat dry before adding another (I think I did about 4 or 5) and then let it dry overnight. I cut out the fairy and the flower toppers in white cardstock (both Tattered Lace dies) and coloured them in - I left the fairy's hair white as I thought it added some interest and her wings and flowers in a couple of shades of pink. The larger flower was coloured using a couple of sha...

Winter Scenes x3 hand coloured gift tags/labels -  Day 316 of my 366 day challenge Hi Craft addicts! Today's challenge are 3 different gift tags which I have hand coloured and hand stamped using various ink colours and stamps. How I made these tags:- I first of all took 3 4" small white cards and using the small "Label/tag shaped" die cut these tags out. You have to make sure that one of the edges of the die (side or top) is slightly overhanging the card so that it makes a card rather than 2 different tags! As you can see from the tags, I have used "Blue" DoCrafts Papermania dye based inks to create the sky - gradually using more and more to make the sky darker at the top.  For two of them, I also cut out a small circle in white card stock and stuck it lightly (using temporary glue) to where I wanted the moon to be and repeated what I had done for the one on the right hand side. For both the "landscape" and one of th...