ColorBox Premium Dye Tag

ColorBox® Premium Dye Tag
Create a beautiful faux
watercolor look with ColorBox®
Premium Dye
ColorBox® Premium Dye Tag
DESIGNED BY GAIL GREEN
MATERIALS
Impression Obsession: E7743 Tree1 and E7758 Silhouette
Rushes
ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpads by Stephanie Barnard:
Banana, Guava, Tangerine, Grape
ColorBox® Archival Dye Inkpad: Wicked Black
ColorBox® Mix’d Media Inx® by Donna Salazar: Jasmine
ColorBox® Color Blender
ColorMates® Textured Cardstock: Cascata Black
Beacon Adhesive® Zip Dry
Manila tag
Small paint brush (round, natural)
Clean water in container
Small fine-tip scissors
Rag or paper towel
Single hole punch
DIRECTIONS
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Trim black cardstock to dimensions ½” longer and
wider than your manila tag. Ink the Tree 1 stamp
with Mix’d Media Inx® Jasmine, stamp on black
card stock. Re-ink and stamp again, continue
stamping using the off-the-edge and overlapping
imprints techniques. Set aside to dry.
Ink the Rushes stamp with ColorBox® Archival
Dye Wicked Black and stamp across bottom edge
of tag.
Using Direct to Paper technique, apply Banana,
Guava, Tangerine and Grape onto different sections
of the tag. Blend the colors slightly with Color
Blender.
Dip paintbrush in water; carefully tap a few drops
of water onto the tag, allowing color to bleed
until water spots appear. Lightly dab with paper
towel. Add additional drops if desired and blot. Dry
completely with heat tool.
Attach tag to stamped black card stock as shown.
Trim corners on stamped black card stock to
match shape of tag. Punch hole and insert string
or ribbon. Tie as desired. top and bottom corners.
Fold back each end to the center fold to create
the accordion folded card with four 3” x 3” panels.
Corner punch the remaining corners, so that all
corners are rounded.
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