Tag Technique #4: paint resist

Hi there everyone, it's Monday so time for another technique, this one 'borrowed' from Tim Holtz. Are you playing along?

These are the completed tags. A very simple series of steps. This is what I used: 

Select one of your tags and a stencil. Lay the stencil over your tag. Select a light colour acrylic paint from your stash. Either use a blending tool as I did or some craft foam to pounce your paint colour through the stencil completely or partly over your tag. 

Remove the stencil and place straight into warm water. You don't want the paint to dry on your stencil. Heat dry the painted tag. Now, again using craft foam or a blending tool, select two or three Distress ink pads or Distress Stains or the Distress Oxides and blend the colours over your tag.

Although I didn't do this, you can continue to layer more stencils over your tag to create more interesting backgrounds. 

A few more tags using different colours: 

And another: 

The final step is to flick some water over the completed, inked, tags. This just adds to the distressed look. From this...

To this...

A very simple technique but the first of several 'resist' techniques, so more to follow. Hope you are inspired to have a go. Until next time!