Altered Shipping Tags

I love creating tags to include in happy mail that I send out to friends and even just to hang in my studio for added extra inspiration. Today I'll show you how I created these vibrant and deliciously grungy tags in just a few minutes.

I started by giving my tags a coat of Gesso.

Once the gesso was dry I used my Gelatos Brights to randomly add color. 

 I applied a deep blue Gelatos through a stencil  for the Stencils 101 Collection and then grunged it up by lifting off some of the color with a wet baby wipe.

At this point I decided that I wanted to add some dimension to my tags so I used the same stencil, but this time I applied Whipped Spackle through it, using the Palette Knife from the Gelatos Tool Set and let that dry.

I rubbed that same blue Gelatos to my craft mat, misted lightly with water, and brushed it over the dried Spackle using the Stipple Brush from the Gelatos Tool Set. I set that aside to dry and started on my other tag.

For this tag I used a diamond shaped stencil and applied blue Gelatos through it. To add some highlights, I also added some white.

To create uniformity between the two tags, I added a few more elements to them with the other stencil, this time using purple from the Steampunk Gelatos set. Once that was done, I added a bit of perfectly imperfect penwork using Pitt Artist Pens and a Stampers Big White Pen.

To finish off my tags, I added some colorful ribbon and a sentiment to each. To make the sentiment pop, I outlined it using my Brush nib pen from the Essential PITT Artist Pen set

Now all that was left to do was to mail them out to hopefully brighten someones day!

xo, Belen

 

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[Helen Gullett]

Fantastic tutorial! Love those bright colors

[Belen Sotelo]

Thank you, Helen!