Here's the background story to these thank you notes: The week before Christmas my 9 year old took a class with a Ranger certified instructor. Part of the class involved using Inkssentials Blending tools with Distress Inks to color tags. My daughter had used Distress inks with me but I didn't have the tool so I bought one for her and one for me. One afternoon my daughter and I each colored a pile of tags. Some of my tags are the basis for my thank you cards.
Recipe for Tags:
1) Use blending tool to apply the lighter shade of Distress or Nick Bantock Ink (Ranger) to tag. Apply darker ink around the edges of the tag. Keep blending, adding more ink if needed.
2) Randomly stamp speckled marble stamp (Inka) onto tags using Linen Distress Ink. This is to add some dimension so complete coverage isn't necessary.
3) Randomly stamp
silhouette flower images (Starving Artistamps) with Linen Distress Ink or
Deep Turquoise Nick Bantock Ink.
4) Stamp Thank You (Jody Poesy) on tag in brown Versafine ink.
5) Rub edges of tags with darker ink.
6) Add ribbon.
And in case you are wondering about the papers I used- they are Miss Elizabeth (Dollar Tree). See the orange tag on the Turquoise background? I used the ink tool to change the background paper to match the sentiment. Good way to use up paper that isn't quite the right color.
Thanks for reading!
