Hoo There Gift Tag by Gail Green

Add a whimsical touch to any gift with this adorable gift tag made from an awesome Linnie Blooms pre-sewn canvas luggage tag! 

Materials:

Linnie Blooms: Canvas Luggage Tag

                          Flutter Stencil and Mask 

                          Feather Stencil and Mask

                          Shabby Trim (green)

Clearsnap, Inc: 
                     Archival Dye Ink pads (Pumpkin Pie, Squash, Mudslide, Cookie Dough Putty, Tree                                                                     Frog, Golf  Course, Grasshopper)

                     Art Dauber, Color Blender

Faber-Castell Stampers Big Brush Pens (Yellow Set)

Beacon Adhesives: Gem-Tac™ Permanent Adhesive

Sakura: Micron Pigma Pen 08

Small wiggle eyes

Letter and/or phrase buttons, stickers, or embellishments of your choice

Cord for tag

Masking tape

Instructions:

Use Art Dauber and Color Blender to randomly apply Putty and Cookie Dough over tag. Dab Mudslide around edges.

Position branch and leaves portion of the Bloom Stencil along lower edge of tag. Secure in place with small strips of masking tape. Using Dauber, dab the three green inks in the leaves section. 

Dab Pumpkin Pie and Mudslide to branch. Remove mask.

Position owl portion of the Bloom Stencil so owl is resting on the branch.  Secure in place.  Position and secure wide feather portion of Feather Stencil over center of owl, as shown.  

Dab Pumpkin Pie, Squash and Mudslide in open area.  Remove Feather stencil.  Dab Squash in remaining non-inked area of owl.  Remove stencil.

Use Micron pen to draw beak, feet and details on owl, branch and leave, as shown.  Color beak and feet with Orange Glaze. 

Tie bow from Shabby Trim. Attach bow, eyes and embellishments with Gem-Tac. Tie cord through hole in tag.

                         

Sponged Nature Hanging

I LOVE inky techniques!  And...I especially love to try inky techniques with Linnie Blooms' awesome pre-sewn canvas products!

I was inspired by all the GREEN and SKY and foliage around my neighborhood and decided to create this cheerful little wall hanging, using the items below:

I just LOVE Linnie Blooms picket fence, tree, 5" x 5" blank square, heart, miniature clothespins and Shabby Trim!

...and that little yellow button added just the special touch of sunshine to the project!

In addition to these items, I also used these additional supplies:

Clearsnap, Inc: Archival Dye inkpads (Wicked Black, Mudslide, Glacier Lake, Moody Blue, Tree Frog, Grasshopper, Pinetree, Squash, Pumpkin Pie, Fireberry)
Clearsnap, Inc:  Color Blenders
Beacon Adhesives: Fabri-tac Permenent Adhesive
Needle and thread
Scrap paper
Scissors

INSTRUCTIONS:

Begin with the background.  Draw a scalloped edge on the scrap paper and cut out. to create a cloud stencil.  Place the stencil just below the top edge and gently sponge both blue inks along the edge.

Move the stencil down and angle slightly.  Sponge ink again along the edge.

Continue until the entire square is covered in clouds.  Aren't they adorable?! This one of my favorite inky techniques...and now you know how easy it is to do!

Next we will do the pieces. Using a technique called "direct-to-paper" (DTP), add  Squash and Pumpkin Pie to the fence.

Cut out  a small section in a paper scrap as shown below. This creates a "mask", which only exposes the area in which we want to add ink.  The remaining areas remain covered.

Place over the fence and dab Mudslide along the edge. Move the paper as needed and continue for each fence post.

It should look like this when you are done. Pretty cool, eh?!

Tree and heart are next.  Now that you are so skilled using a simple paper mask, sponge the tree trunk in Mudslide and then move the paper around and sponge the three greens on the leafy parts.

Simply add Fireberry to the heart using the DTP technique.  (Look how many cool inky techniques you are learning!!)

When dry, sew  the cute yellow button onto the heart.

And now to the cool assembly.  I wanted to add a 3-D vibe to the hanging so I folded and pinched the tree and fence before gluing....just like this!

One more step... Use DTP along the edge of the Shabby Trim to add a little Pinetree grunge.

Now glue all the pieces onto the cloud background....clip the trim onto the hanging when dry!