Simply Scraps

Hello and happy weekend!  I'm so pleased that you stopped by today.  We are kicking off another monthly challenge over at Our Creative Corner.  I'm the hostess for March and I am challenging everyone to use their scraps.  That's right, we know you have a well endowed hoard of bits you have made and not used plus all those end cuts of designer paper or patterns you have created.  Rummage through your box of left overs from previous projects, pieces of paper, snippets of ribbon, embellishments made and never used. If you are like me and can't bear to discard all those yummy scraps, you'll have a variety of possibilities to use for this project. Let's put some of them to use!

I want to also mention that Tando Creative is our March sponsor and they will be donating a prize to one randomly selected player of this month's challenge.  So we hope to see you playing along at Our Creative Corner during the month of March.  

For my odds and ends project, I rummaged around in my scrap box and pulled out this tag.  It's a leftover from the 2012 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style.  I had covered a tag with Tim Holtz tissue wrap, slathered it with Multi Medium and pressed tissue paper into it, making sure it was wrinkled.  Then I covered it with Tim Holtz distress stains - I don't remember which red it was - Fired Brick, maybe?  There is also Tarnished Brass DS on it.  But I just couldn't get excited about it for a Christmas tag but couldn't throw it out either so into the box it went.  Further digging in the box yielded the butterfly, the rosette, the hearts, the harlequin die cut and the die cut window frame.  The leaves were die cut with the new Spring Greenery decorative strip die from a small piece of Maja's  It's Christmastime designer paper.

Pawing around in my chipboard scraps, I came up with one the right size to use on my new Trellis Frameworks die.  I cut the chipboard with the die, painted it white with gesso and glued it down with Multi Medium Matte.  Then I took a paintbrush and brushed gesso over everything.  When the gesso was dry, I painted it again with Wendy Vecchi's new crackle paste.  But I guess I did't put it on heavy enough as my cracks were not very big.  Oh well, live and learn.  I know you are supposed to apply it over a coat of another color embossing paste and I was experimenting to see if it would work over a coat of gesso.  

After edging the tag with Walnut Stain DI, it was time to add all my lovely little embellies.  I spent about 15 minutes arranging and rearranging them until I was pleased with the result.  I finished it off by adding a couple of Chit Chat stickers.   

Hope you like it!

Hugs,

Linda

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

Ranger Inkssentials Surfaces Tags - #10 Tags - Manila	50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Melange	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Fired Brick
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Picket Fence White	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Tarnished Brass	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Paper Rosette Die	Corrugated Cardboard (6 sheets)	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Spring Greenery
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chitchat Stickers	*Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Frameworks Die - Trellis	Claudine Hellmuth Gesso	Maja Design Scrapbook Paper - It′s Christmas Time	4 Piece Bronze Tone Butterfly Set Filigree Metals for Scrapbooking and Mixed Media
Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Stain	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 4 oz.	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 1 oz.	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Crackle