Tag Inspired by Lou Sims

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a step by step guide to creating this tag which was inspired by a blog post by Lou Sims. https://lulucardmaking.blogspot.com/2025/10/5-creative-ways-to-use-distress-crayons.html

To begin I scribbled areas of the three colours of distress crayons. I then blended these using my finger.

I then placed the stencil, from Lu Mania, over the tag and rubbed a wet wipe over it to remove some of the colour on the tag. This was left to dry.

Next, I stamped the Winter Wishes stamp over the tag using strawberry Versafine Clair. 

On separate card,  I stamped the Winter Wishes and Festive Finery stamps, using Versafine Clair nocturne ink. I cut out the word Winter and the bauble. I coloured the bauble using distress crayons with a damp paintbrush. 

I used a clear glue to stick the word Winter over the stamping at the bottom right of the tag. 

Finally I added the bauble and used a black fineliner pen to draw the string and a bow.

Products used:

Tim Holtz mixed media tag 

Lu Mania triple stencil set 1

Shady Designs 

.  Winter Wishes stamp set 

. Festive Finery stamp set 

Distress Crayons 

. Tree Lot

. Holly Branch 

. Peppermint Stick

. Winterberry

Thank you for taking a look. 

Alison