PDO - Valentine's Day tags

Welcome back to my little crafty corner of the world!  Polka Dot Orchard has just had a HUGE release of brand new digital stamps in their store.   Click HERE to check out all the new goodies.  Today I am using Love and a Fabulous Cupcake illustrated by Crystal O. Minkler and Love Grows Here illustrated by Kimberly Wiener.

I cut two tags 2 3/4" x 5" out of a pale pink cardstock.  Next I measured the space available to put the digital stamp.  I had drawn out a quick sketch so I had some idea what I wanted to do.  Next I reduced the size of the cupcake and printed it out on Neenah Solar White 80lb cardstock.  I set this aside for the moment and went to work on the background.

I had two different ideas for the background and I just couldn't decide.  So I did both!  I used red ink with a brush and stencil to create the one on the left.  For the one on the right, I used the same stencil but used Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Raspberry Rhodolite instead.  I laid them both asided to air dry.

Now back to the cupcake stamp.  Like the backgrounds, I couldn't decide on which medium to use.  I thought I would use colored pencils to create a softer look to go with the tag on the left.

I used Gamsol and Prismacolor pencils.  The colors used were: 

Wrapper - PC947 and PC1082. 

Frosting - PC992, PC995 and PC105. 

The cherry/heart - PC1030 and PC925.

For the glimmer paste tag I used Copic markers.  I love the bold colors you can get with them.

Colors used:

Wrapper - T7, BG78, BF75 and BG72.

Frosting - W5, W3, W1, W0 and 0.

Heart/cherry - R59, R37 and R32.

I fussy cut them both out with scissors and added some detail with white gel pen.

While the gel pen dried, I got back to creating the sentiment.  Like I said at the beginning of the post, the sentiment is from the Love Grows Here set.  I wanted the tag backgrounds to shine through so I thought printing the sentiments onto vellum would be perfect.  And it was!  I trimmed them down to thin strips and wrapped them around to the back of the tag.  Then I used a strong adhesive to keep the strips in place on the back.

I cut out pieces of foam tape to add to the back of the cupcake.  Even a tiny little piece for the cherry stem!  Peeled of the backer pieces and added them to the tags.  I searched through my ribbon stash and found ribbons to work with both of the tags.  And that's all there is!

Here is a side-by-side comparison.  Can you pick a favorite?  I can't!

Remember, head on over to the Polka Dot Orchard shop to check out the latest and greatest!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kristina

Coffee Lovers/Coloring Challenge card 3

Welcome back my friends!  I actually have a tag for you today instead of a card.  I love that the Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge and the Coffee Lovers blog hop are overlapping right now!

I cut a piece of patterened paper from the Echo Park Coffee collections with a tag die from Paper Smooches.  Next I stamped the coffee cup image from Jaded Blossom's Coffee Art set.  For the foam art I stamped an image from Jaded Blossom's Fall Coffee Art set.  I stamped all of the images on Bristol Smooth paper.

The entire image was colored using Zig Clean Color real brush markers and a water brush.  I did add Wink of Stella to the spoon and the leaf in the center.  The sentiment is actually a strip I cut down from the Echo Park paper pad.  It was perfect!  I added a bit of foam tape to the back and attached it to the card.  The white and silver edge ribbon is from my stash.

You can link up to the Coffee Lovers blog hop HERE.

And the Daily Marker 30 day Coloring Challenge HERE.

Hope to see you again tomorrow!
~Kristina

Supplies used:

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid glue Shop at: SBC | EH	Wink of Stella - Glitter Clear Shop at: SBC | EH	Therm O Web Foam Tape Shop at: SBC | EH	Hybrid black ink pad Shop at: SBC
Echo Park Coffee Collection paper Shop at: SBC	Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper Shop at: EH	Marine Green 400 Zig Clean Color Real Brush Shop at: EH	Gift Tags 2 - Paper Smooches Shop at: SBC
Dark Gray 95 - Zig Clean Color real brush Shop at: EH	Pale Rose 230 - Zig Clean Color real brush Shop at: EH	Deep Red 260 - Zig Clean Color real brush Shop at: SBC | EH	Blush 69 - Zig Clean Color real brush Shop at: EH