Limor Webber Designs DT Blog: My Father's World Mixed Media Tag Tutorial by Tonya Gibbs

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a great week, looking forward to the weekend. Autumn is in full swing here, so I wanted to create a mixed media tag tutorial to help kick start my brain into thinking about cooler days and forget these past few "Dog Days of Summer".

I found a hymnal page in my scraps that had the title "This is My Father's World" and part of the song said "nature sings" & "morning light" so I used this as inspiration for my tag.

I had used this hymnal page in another project so pieces of it were missing. I was careful to reserve back the pieces that I wanted to focus on and used the rest of the scraps to line the base of the tag. To give my cut outs more stability I backed them on scraps of watercolor paper.

When I think of nature singing at Morning light I always think of birds. So I knew I wanted to incorporate a bird. I used the Prima Shabby Chic Resin birds. I have a window in my bedroom, and a little bird is ALWAYS in the window singing. So I thought about using another Prima Resin piece in the shape of a window. Since both were really too bright white, I decided to paint them with my Lindy's Stamp Gang. You can see in the video below how I did this.

I also wanted to keep with the texture and colors of fall. So I used the Burlap stencil from Tim Holtz, and some white Crackle Texture Paste from Prima, along with Gelatos® in fall colors of Yellow, Orange and Red to create the background. A little Lindy's Ponderosa Pine Olive Magicals was added to finish off the crackled and rich tones of fall. To add a bit of sparkle, I used some Mica Flakes from Prima. They offered just the right touch of reflective light to my base.

I decided to build my floral spray like a bird's nest. I kept the flowers somewhat neutral (like the twigs in a nest) by spraying them with the Lindy's in several different colors. To give them a pop of orange I finished them off with a little of the Copper Magicals found in the Lindy's Autumn collection.

Here is a video tutorial showing how I completed the tag from start to finish.