This tag project features three of my favorite papercrafting techniques: Stamping, embossing, painting and resin! Wait—make that four of my favorite techniques!
I love the detail, texture and shine.
Here’s how I made it:
First, brayer-paint your book paper. I used PaperArtsy Stone. Then stamp and clear-emboss the fern image, using a pigment ink like Versafine. I’m using WOW’s Clear Matte embossing powder. The stamp is from my Eclectica ESN56 stamp set from PaperArtsy.
Then, paint in the image with acrylic paints. The embossed edges will hold in the watery medium. I used Limelight and Weathered Copper.
Trim it down, place it on your craft mat, and coat it with resin. Note: To see a tutorial on this, please check out this video on my Facebook page. I start the process at about 7 minutes in.
Let the resin cure overnight, then you can peel it off your craft mat and put it to use! Here it is—you can see how the paper becomes translucent, except where the paint is, allowing the words from both sides of the sheet to show. This is the front:
And this is the back:
I brayered and splattered some white cardstock with paint, to create a tag base. I first brayered it with Stone, then brayered Limelight and splattered with Weathered Copper.
To keep the colors bright, I layered the resin piece onto white cardstock. Then, I matted the piece onto a scrap of glassine kraft paper and added it to the tag.
Like so:
Notice the edges of the resin piece are torn? That’s right—although the resin makes the book paper stronger and more stable (as well as translucent), it can still be torn.
Then I decorated a manila tag envelope I had in my stash with some leftovers from my crafting session, including some text stamping from the same Eclectica ESN56 stamp set from PaperArtsy.
Here they are together—
Look at that shine!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! See you again next week!
Shopping tip: PaperArtsy stamps are sold at independent retailers. I’ve linked to Frantic Stamper in the US, but stampers can also look on the PaperArtsy website to find the stockist near you.
