Anne's Technique Challenge

I believe this is the first stand-alone tag I've ever made!  I have Anne Gaal to thank for that!  She has a challenge on her blog to use at least 3 techniques and make a tag.  She is a wonderful teacher and has many gorgeous examples of these techniques on her blog; I encourage you to take some time and enjoy it.  And Anne, "Andi sent me"!  Andi had posted earlier today about Anne's challenge, and that was in the back of my mind as I made the card in my previous post.  I had so much fun making these backgrounds - thank you, Anne, for making me do this!  I hope this is the first of many tags that I make!

I started with white glossy cardstock, and used the blending tool to color it with wild honey and spiced marmalade distress inks, and cranberry Adirondack ink.  Then I spritzed the music background cling with a mix of perfect pearls and water, and overstamped that onto my background colors.  I heat-set that, then used all of the above inks to overstamp the little maple leaf.  Next was the overstamping of the sweet birds. I then used a bit of leftover background from my previous card to stamp the sentiment, framing it in kraft and hanging it on twine.  It wouldn't hang at the right angle, so I used a bit of Glossy Accents as glue to hold it exactly where I wanted it, and to add my little heart button. 

Here's a detail picture to show you the effect of the perfect pearl stamping.  So, here are the techniques I used: 

           making a Distress Ink background using blending tool and foam

           water stamping onto Distress Inks

           stamping with the same color of Distress Ink

           using Glossy Accents as a glue

           over-stamping

AND, since this uses orange and string, I'm also entering it into the wee Memories Scrappy Saturday challenge.  Please scroll on down to the post below to see a very similar project using some of the same techniques.

Supplies: glossy white cardstock, wild honey and spiced marmalade distress inks, cranberry Adirondack ink, versafine onyx black ink, Hero Arts CG222 Music Background, CL361 Season of Giving, CraftySecrets #SM-01 Bird Notes, orange dotty ribbon, twine, orange heart button