But first let's talk about marketing for a moment, shall we......We all know how it works. Those marketing executives sit around the conference table and think of all sorts of ways to lure you in and buy their products. Some tactics are complicated and some are based on the most basic level. Let's take for instance this Martha Stewart paint. It's paint....it's white. Oh sure...it's in the cute little bottle with the cute little easy to open top. I can still resist. I pick it up again because I'm attracted to the little aqua Martha circle. Despite that, I'm still able to set it down. I have a million shades of white paint at home. I most certainly do not need another.....Martha Stewart paint or no Martha Stewart paint, I should have just walked away at that point with the clear undisputable fact of not needing another drop of paint much less in the shade of white when I turn the little bottle around and read the name of the color.....
"Wedding Cake"
Sold. Not only do I buy it. But I swear it's the best shade of white I have everr seen in my life......Wedding Cake. Seriously. Those people in her marketing department are geniuses....every last one of them.
Anyway, I forgot that when I made those Melissa Frances tags the other day I took some pictures for a tutorial. It's nothing elaborate. Just a way to show you the layering process. My new obsession is with corrugated cardbord as you can see.....
I cut a tag shape out of a piece of the Ebony paper along with with a smaller piece of coordinating blue to fit on top. I then cut a heart out of corrugated paper. The corrugated paper I used is from notecards that I bought years ago. See, sometimes hoarding pays off! I thought I would put these love birds on it but then changed my mind as I always do......
I painted the hearts with a mix of blue and wedding cake white paint. After it dried, I painted a bit of glue on them and the sprinked with glitter......
I punched out a circle and the using a glue pen traced along the edges and applied some glitter.....
I also painted along the edges of the tag and the inside piece. I put some foam dots under the circle as well as the heart and glued into place on the tag.
I used a "greeting" banner from the c'est la vie sticker collection and a resin keyhole to place on top of the heart......
I added some tulle and a fabric ribbon to the top as a well as some pom pom trim and ruffled crepe paper to the bottom.....voila...A cute little gift tag to give to a friend.
Personally, I think it's the wedding cake white paint that pulls the whole thing over the top.....but that's just me......
Talk to you later! Karin
