Welcoming Spring In Plaid

It's time for another monthly swap, but this time it's for the tag swap at the Creative Block - Stamper's Anonymous Yahoo Group.  The requirements were to make a tag and only use three stamps, stamped only once, and in different colors. Sounds difficult, but it wasn't, and I decided to combine this week's Grungy Monday challenge of using Tim's technique from 12 Tags of Christmas 2009, Day 3 which is making "a plaid pattern" with Alcohol Ink, on the tag.

I used packaging from a 7 Gypsies product, because the paper had the same feel and consistency as Glossy Cardstock, plus it had a cool image already on it that also shows through the Alcohol Ink.

I absolutely hated how thick and foggy looking my vertical lines came out. I want to scrap this and start over, but I couldn't bear not to use something with all this precious Alcohol Ink on it, so I added a thin line of Alcohol Ink but from a Fillable Pen. I hope that still qualifies, but it really helped shape up my pattern much better.

These are the 3 images I choose (all Tim's) and the permanent ink I used. The Metallic Gold is actually orange, and I already knew that, but thought it would make a nice contrast.

I cut my tags from lime green cardstock and added a border around it with Gold Paint Dabber, then distressed the edges, and coated them with Black Soot Distress Ink. I had ribbon with individual butterflies on it that I used to Spring this up, as well as a computer generated title. I luckily had this orangey ribbon in my stash that matches the 'gold' ink.

 

Supplies:
From My Stash: 7 Gypsies packaging scrap, green cardstock, butterfly ribbon, ribbon

Alterations Tag & Bookplate Bigz Die	Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool	Alcohol Ink - Meadow	Sunshine Yellow Alcohol Ink	Adirondack Purple Twilight Alcohol Ink
Gold Mixative Alcohol Ink	Bottle Alcohol Ink	Idea-ology Design Ruler	Adirondack Alcohol Ink Fillable Pen	Cirque Alphabet Stamp Set
Cirque Mini Alpha Stamp Set	Sketch Stamp Set	Cactus Green StazOn	Jet Black Stazon	Gold StazOn Ink
Paint Dabber - Gold	Paper distresser	Black Soot Distress Ink

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!