It's Green! (Monochromatic Too :)

This one ought to blast you awake!  It's my Funkie week monochromatic make for our Frilly and Funkie challenge.  I was actually planning to go with yellows, but when I saw what my teammies had made (yellows/browns) I decided I needed to go in a different direction.  I first used the new Tiles stencil and white Ranger embossing paste to lay down the back layer.  When it was dry, I painted on the greens.  I was going for sort of an ombre effect without doing it with a DIY pad.  I made a separate wash with four distress greens (Forest Moss, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron) and painted diagonal wavy stripes with each color.  It wasn't quite grungy enough so I loaded up my paintbrush with the Forest Moss wash and gave it a few spatters.  I meant to take a picture before I covered it all up, but darn, missed that opportunity.  While I had the four washes on my craft sheet, I used the paint brush to color the leaves which were cut from white CS with the Spring Greenery decorative strip die.  My crazy birds were stamped with Forest Moss onto watercolor paper and likewise colored.  

I hand cut the grass, colored it with Mowed Lawn (of course :) and sewed it onto the tag.  The banner was cut freehand from Tissue Wrap and a sentiment from Small Talk was adhered.  I took my finger and smeared a little Forest Moss DI on the Small Talk stickers.  My tiny dragon flies were painted with Twisted Citron distress paint and my originally silver tone filigree was embossed with Wendy Vecchi's Fern Green embossing powder.  The gumdrop was tinted with a drop of Twisted Citron reinker.  

I definitely had a blast getting inky with this one!  These crazy birds are so dang cute!  Hope you will join us for the last week of our monochromatic challenge over at Frilly and Funkie.  

The products below were used to make the above tag. They can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger and most other name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Tiles	Ranger Texture Paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Forest Moss Reinker
Ranger Tim Holtz Peeled Paint Distress Ink Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Reinker - Mowed Lawn	Ranger Tim Holtz Twisted Citron Distress Reinker	$23.95 Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Bird Crazy	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Forest Moss
Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Spring Greenery	Round Silver Tone Filigree Embellishments - Set of 4	Gumdrops - 10 Piece White Acrylic Embellishments	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Embossing Powder - Fern Green	Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Postale
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Small Talk