These tags were made for the Hel's Angels Tag Swap and the theme is Shabby/Distressed/Altered. I made all these from mountboard. I have had trouble in the past making things look authentically distressed and have never felt the damage done to them looks genuine enough! So this time I decided to do something drastic and rubbed the tags on the brick wall outside. This gave them a really old, scratched and beaten look that I was pleased with.
The first tag is cut from a piece of gold metallic mountboard. After being scratched on the wall I rubbed some Pine Needles Distress Ink into the raw edges, followed by a little Black Soot. This gave a kind of verdigris effect that I liked and went well with the metallic board. The stamps I used come from Paper Artsy.
The next tag was cut from cream textured mountboard and scratched and creased. I rubbed in some Distress Inks, then stamped the two Catslife Press stamps onto a beermat which had been covered in white paper then Distress Inked and spritzed. I cut them out really badly and equally badly applied some gold pen to the edges. For the buttons I looked in my box of old buttons and selected these. I stitched them to the tag and made a bit of a mess of finishing off the stitching.
The third is also on cream textured mountboard. I rubbed on some Distress Inks, then stamped the Crafty Individuals script stamp in Walnut Stain and tore it in half. I rubbed some more ink into the torn edges. I stamped the Paper Artsy lady with an Ariondack Woodland ink pad and cut away the top part of the image. The wings are from a Grungeboard set and were coloured with Fired Brick Distress Ink and embossed twice with clear powder.
I am very pleased with these and now know exactly how to age a project!
