'B' is for distressed butterfly tag

As forewarned, I made another tag using plenty of distress inks.  This tag is for the Simon Says Stamp & Show blog's challenge 'use a tag'.  It's a #8 tag...my favorite size to work on....at least right now.

I started out using the watercolor distress technique using the blue and purple palette with a touch of yellow thrown in...hence the green in spots.  Next up I stamped the large image from Tim's new 'Papillon' set in Ranger's new archival color of Saffron.  Of course I knew it wouldn't show up real well but I wanted it for a shadow behind the image stamped again (slightly offset) but in Coffee.

The vertical column of butterflies was stamped in Jet Black Archival ink and Tim's filmstrip ribbon was attached using his tiny attacher.  The flowers were cut from Tim's new kraft glassine paper using his Tattered Florals die.
I colored the flowers with Saffron, Monarch Orange and Crimson (now retired) archival inks.  I tried the distress inks as Tim showed but didn't get the depth of color like I wanted.

Using Sizzix's Leaf Stem die I cut 2 from green paper and distressed them manually and with distress inks.  A chipboard 'b' was coated with gesso then blue and brown distress inks were smudged on, edged in Coffee Archival Ink. 

I used plain gold brads for the flower centers, roughed them up with Tim's sander then pushed them into the Coffee Archival Ink pad before pounding them with Tim's hammer.  Some miscellaneous ribbon scraps were colored with Espresso Color Wash and Coffee Archival Ink because they weren't quite the right colors.  A bit of Black Soot Distress Ink around the tag and it's a fait accompli.