where flowers bloom... || Paper Wings Productions February link up: red.

This month the link up theme at Paper Wings Productions is RED.Valentine's day is in the air around here! My V day mantle is all set up in my downstairs family room and I made a little goodie bag for the link up party at PWP.

This is just a kraft bag, approximately 5" x 7" size. I used heat embossing with one of the flower stamps from the Mini Flowers cling stamp set to start the background on my bag. Then I used one of the texture stamps from the Art Textures stamp set and inked it with a mix of Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist + Faber-Castell's white gel medium. I stamped the background of the bag and then blasted it with my heating tool to dry it. The gel medium helps to create a true textured background, but as a resist. You can't really see the pattern until you start working with ink blending on the background.

I should note - add a scrap piece of paper to the inside of your bag before you start working on the exterior of the bag.

So now I have my heat embossed flowers and my resist texture. Now I add my sentiment, which is from the Flowers cling stamp set. I stamped it with StazOn ink so I would get a great crisp image that didn't rub off. I sprayed a fine mist of that same Moon Shadow Mist onto the bag, blasted it with my heating tool to dry it, and then I started ink blending the background with red ink.

Then I got to work on my tag. I basically used the same ideas - heat embossed a stamp from the Art Textures set, heat embossed the flowers with red this time, and then spritzed some of that mist on the background. I also stamped the flowers with a mixture of the gel medium + the mist to get a resist image of the flowers, then I used my red ink blending on the background. 

I dropped some candies in the bag, used twine to attach my tag to my goodie bag, and now I'm all set for the big day! I hope you'll join us on with your RED creations. You can post your link up HERE. Have fun!

supplies
stamps: Paper Wings Productions (Flower Words; Mini Flowers; Art Textures;)
mist: Lindy's Stamp Gang (Sweet Treats)
twine: Timeless Twine
ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (barn door); StazOn (jet black)
embossing powder: American Crafts ZING! (rouge; white opaque); Tim Holtz Distress Powder (fired brick)