Hello all. I do hope you are all doing okay.
It's time for the second of the non-blue/green tags. If you've no idea what I'm talking about, then you must have missed my Double Glazing tag.
That was an elegant, somewhat restrained piece. This one is altogether wilder, with layers and layers of meadow flowers drifting away to the far horizon.
You'll notice it has some elements in common with Double Glazing, but for the most part it headed in a different sort of direction.
(Apologies for the extremely annoying smudge on the camera lens which I've just noticed as I was editing the photos - bah!
In case you've forgotten (or haven't seen the other post), here's where they both started. I added some inks to the same flourish stencil as in tag 1, spritzed with water and printed onto the right hand tag (which had already had a priming of gesso to whiten the yellow-ish manila.
The swirling shapes are pretty subtle, and many of them got lost under later layers, but you can still see them in places by the end.
And I do think the swirls of movement influenced the wilder journey this tag took.
I added some tangled branch stamping, blended on some brown inks and splotched extra browns to give a bit more detail to replace what had been lost in the blending.
There came a point when I really wanted to embrace the colour palette Brenda had used during our Creative Skypeing session, so I added in some Victorian Velvet to the mix (and maybe a touch of Seedless Preserves - not sure any more).
I smooshed a mixture of Inks and Oxides in the same colours to create a third tag, and that's what the flower stems were cut from for both tags.
Time for some more grasses and some more Glazing! I used the Weathered Wood Embossing Glaze to layer on some tangled meadow grasses. It's a Tim Holtz stamp.
But this time I stamped the image in Stormy Sky Oxide, so you get an altogether bluer version of the translucent glaze than appeared on Double Glazing.
And there's that glint of light on the glossy finish which makes me so happy.
As with the first tag, I didn't want to cover the background up too much. Besides, it was already looking pretty busy!
So aside from the Wildflower stems, cut from that third tag, and with some additional mottling courtesy of Oxide splatters in Stormy Sky and Victorian Velvet...
... there's some white twine bound around the tag, on which is perched one of the Entomology insects, stamped and die-cut, and embossed in Primary Bark.
The words are also a little wild - they're one of my PaperArtsy quotes from EAB01 Trees & Flowers - because of being stamped over all that already-embossed texture underneath.
I don't mind the scattered grains of powder exploding out from the words. And I know very well what they say, so it doesn't worry me that for once they're maybe a little blurry!
The metal token is another echo of the Double Glazing - this one has a rusty look, courtesy of some alcohol inks, and some more Distress Crayon to highlight the lettering.
I'm so happy that you can still see some of those stencil-printed swirls...
... and I do like the soft colours in the sky...
... as well as that insect just poised to skitter away if he senses danger.
So that's pretty much that for this tag. I hope you like it. And just in case you're curious, here's how they look lined up as a pair. I think they have enough in common to work well together and enough differences to each have their own individual character.
And here you can really see the difference in the Weathered Wood Embossing Glaze - over clear embossing ink in the first tag (and with some Hickory Smoke also along for the ride) and over Stormy Sky in the second. It was nice to take a short break from the springtime blues and greens, but rest-assured, they'll be back very soon!
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I'll be along to visit soon (virtually obviously - no breaking of the quarantine here!), and I'm looking forward to seeing what you've been up to. I hope you are all staying safe and staying well and staying sane. See you soon!
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odourless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colours and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
Jonas Mekas
I'd like to play along at Try It On Tuesday where the theme is Have Fun With Stencils - the fun is all the way in the background, but it's definitely there
At the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge they are playing E is for... embossing powder in my case - still experimenting with the Glazes, as well as using my favourite Wow Primary Bark
