Aloha... East side Maui

Good morning!  I say "East-side Maui" because this tag evokes more of that rustic-remote vibe from the least-populated region of coastal Maui. 

Layers of fiber...

Just look at those layers!

Oh, the irony...

Supplies:

• Ranger base tag painted with a mixture of white iquitex gesso and some generic brown acrylic paint scraped on with an old hotel room-key.
• Cardboard panel from some packaging painted at the same time in the same fashion.
• "Aloha" written with a DecoArt paint pen
• Twine from stash
• Yarn sent last year by the fiber-lovin' (and fiber-sharin') Andrea at Snapping Monsters.
• The flowers were made by using the sponge-tip of Distress Paints in Picked Raspberry and Broken China on to old typewriter paper.  When dry, I used the DecoArt paint pen to draw the flowers
• The faux water droplets are Mod Podge Dimensional Magic
• The last thing I added was the greenery... which is Mini Greenery by Tim Holtz cut from some paper that Autumn at Sew Paper Paint sent a year or two ago.

There are a few things unique about this project that make it special to me:

• I thought of my oldest daughter the whole time while making it because she loves Hawaii, and we visited Maui together a year ago
• Parts are from two inspiring crafty friends (Andrea and Autumn... huge hugs and thanks)
• There is no black on this project!  (Now, that doesn't make it special because I love black, but it definitely was a choice I made, and I don't know why, to stay away from black on this project).

I'd love to share this with the folks at:

• Simon Says Stamp on Monday: Tag it!
• Simon Says Stamp on Wednesday: Layer it up
• Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media challenge, January: