Show Us Your Tags

This week at Simon Says Stamp and Show the challenge is to make a Tim Holtz inspired tag.  I have to say that I have had such a wonderful time this year being inspired by Tim and playing along with his tag challenge.  This was the first year I have participated and I really didn't know what I was missing!  I was really rocking for the first 8 days.  I kept up pretty well but then life intervened and I had to put them on hold.  But I do intend to finish before the close of his challenge at the end of the month.  And I finished one more here with my Simon Says DT piece.  

The main technique demonstrated for Tim's #10 tag was a tape transfer technique.  I gave it a good try, but it didn't work for me.  I printed a vintage Santa image on my home printer since I don't have Tim's Seasonal Paper Stash.  I applied clear tape, burnished it and then put it under warm water and rubbed the paper gently - it all came off - right down to the tape.  No image whatsoever remained on the tape.  Okay, I thought, I shouldn't have used no name generic packing tape so I searched around the house and came up with a roll of clear 3M packing tape.  Ah, the good stuff, surely I would be successful on the second try...or NOT.  And yeah, it was the "or NOT" situation the next time also.  I concluded that for this technique, you need to use Tim's papers or at least a professionally printed paper.  Not to be discouraged, especially since I had  DT deadline for a tag coming up, I printed the Santa image for a third time and affixed it to my fragment charm the normal way.  

For my background, I stamped a Wendy Vecchi script stamp with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink and then sponged it with Festive Berries and Pine Bough distress inks from the new limited edition seasonal distress ink set.  Then I misted some homemade glimmer mist onto my craft sheet and smooshed the tag face down into it a few times, then dried it with my heat tool.  I cut a panel using the Styled Labels die to mount my fragment charm on.  A couple of accent pieces were made using Core'dinations Kraft Core paper and the Hardware Findings die. I also used the Core'dinations Kraft Core paper to cut a bit of greenery with the Festive Greenery die.  The sentiment panel was cut with a Spellbinders die and gold heat embossed twice.  After the second embossing while it was still hot, I stamped the Believe stamp from Holiday Minis into the gold embossing.  You need to ink your stamp with Versamark or other embossing ink first though, so it doesn't stick to the hot embossing.  I finished the piece of by rubbing a bit of gesso over the tag background and the corrugated cardboard.  

So there you have the details and the product links can be found below.  Be sure to stop by and see what the other DT members of Simon Says Samp and Show have made this week for your inspiration.  And don't forget, our ever-generous sponsor, Simon Says Stamp, has a $50 shopping spree to give to a lucky random winner.  Hope that winner is YOU!

Thanks so much for dropping by today.  I hope you have a wonderful week.  

Linked to:  Inspiration Emporium - 12 Tags of Christmas Day #10

Products Used:

Alterations Festive Greenery Die	Tim Holtz Mini Holidays Stamp Set	Alterations Tag and Bookplates Die	Idea-ology Fragments	Wendy Vecchi Life and Make Art
Claudine Hellmuth Gesso	Kraft Core Core'dinations	Ranger Gold Embossing Powder	Styled Labels	Hardware Findings
Wendy Vecchi Life and Make Art

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Rusted Enamel and PEACE

Hello and welcome back! I'm kicking back into gear to finish up Tim's 12 tags.  I had to take a brief stop over the weekend to attend to other things in my life, but now I'm excited to be back to work using Tim's tags as inspirations.  Tim's Tag #9 featured a technique he calls double distressed rusted enameling.  His rusted enamel technique has to be one of my all-time favorites of his techniques. His new double distressed rusted enameling looks sensational on his tag, but it doesn't really pop on mine.  I think it's all about how the rubber meets the road, so to speak.  His stamp had more rubber than the ones I used and consequently the double enameling is much more visible.  I just really love the texture of this technique and the way the distress ink soaks down in between all the minute fissures.  

I started with a vanilla tag and stamped the evergreen tree and the dove with the new seasonal distress ink color Iced Spruce and then clear embossed the images.  Then I sponged the entire tag with Old Paper distress ink and clear embossed.  The Tim Holtz distress inks are also embossing inks so I didn't have to use a special embossing ink after sponging with Old Paper.  Now the fun part - I sponged the entire tag liberally with Vintage Photo DP to give it the rusted effect.  I made a little banner sort of thingy with vintage style crepe paper to mount my star/rosette/holly element on.  I thought it looked a little plain so I added some of the filigree metal I sell in my Etsy Boutique.  The "holly berries" started life as white half pearls that I colored red with Copic marker #29 Lipstick Red.  The PEACE sentiment was cut with the Vintage Market die from Kraft Core card stock.  I coated them with Glossy Accents per Tim's tag and also offset darker letters for a first layer to give them more depth,  The larger holly is from the Festive Greenery die and the smaller one is from a Martha Stewart punch.  

That's about all I can tell you about Tag #9.  Hope you liked to.  Stop back by later this week to catch tags 10-12.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Linked to:  Inspiration Emporium/Inspiration Journal 12 Tags Challenge - Tag #9

Alterations Tag and Bookplates Die	Ranger Clear Embossing Powder	Ranger Glossy Accents	Alterations Mini Rosette Die	Alterations Festive Greenery Die
Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Pads	Alterations Vintage Market Die	Vintage Style Crepe Paper	Old Paper Distress Ink	Burlap String 10 Colors
Filigree Metal

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Tim's Tag 8 Meets Our Creative Corner

Good morning and welcome to my Saturday post for Our Creative Corner.  Our hostess this week is Anne Marie Hile and she has challenged us to make something with Ruffles.  Don't you love it when challenges line up?  I was so excited when I realized that I could combine Tim's Steampunk tag with the Ruffles challenge for this week's Our Creative Corner.  And here you have it - a sweet little ruffled dress form complete with steampunk style wings with ruffles made from my favorite vintage-style crepe paper!  I had SO much fun with this one.  Really, I was grinning the whole time because I just loved working with all this girly vintagy stuff.  And I finally took the plunge and made some of Shelly Hickcox's faux crazed porcelain.  (I am a huge Shelly Hickcox fan and if you haven't visited her blog, you MUST.  She has incredible art and techniques - always a delightful inspiration).

When Tim published his Tag #8, my heart sank.  While I enjoy looking at steampunk style, it is not a style that I have mastered.  But then I realized I didn't have to do the more masculine style of steampunk, I could make a Christmas angel style steampunk piece and whoa, I could even give the dress form ruffles and nail my OCC challenge at the same time.  And in these fleeting days before Christmas, who doesn't want to combine anything and everything and save time!  A double bang for my time.  With Tim's tag for inspiration, I created this piece, but I did not use acrylic paint to stamp.  I have tried that resist technique over and over and over again.  It never works for me and now I won't even bother to try.  I can't get enough of the white acrylic paint to stick when I stamp it and then there is nothing there to "resist".  So I just white embossed for my resist technique.  I used stamps from Tim Holtz Mini Classics and Curiosities for my resist stamping and then overstamped everything with the background stamp from Papillion in Frayed Burlap to give it a little pattern.  Then I sponged the entire tag with Antique Linen DI.  The dress form is from the Haberdashery set and the wings are grungeboard from the Grungeboard Elements set, painted with Picket Fence Crackle Paint, then sponged with Antique Linen DI and finally coated with Ranger UTEE.  

The bow is made from sparkly snowflake tulle that I bought at Jo-Ann's last week when I needed a festive fix.  Ditto the green pipe cleaners and I made the ornament with my jewelry supplies.  I think that about covers all the deets and I am listing my supplies/tools with the handy dandy In-Links Link Manager that I just signed up for (LOVE IT).  Let me know if you have any questions.  I hope to see you over at Our Creative Corner with your ruffles this week, or at least stop by to see what the rest of the DT has to get your creative mojo poppin'.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and for all the wonderful comments - I do so appreciate them!

Linked up to:  Inspiration Emporium/Inspiration Journal - 12 Tags, Tag #8
Products Used:

Vintage Style Crepe Paper	Alterations Tag and Bookplates Die	Tim Holtz Haberdashery	Tim Holtz Papillon	Tim Holtz Mini Classics
Tim Holtz Curiosities	Tim Holtz Mini Holidays 3 Stamp Set	Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint	(UTEE) Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel	Frayed Burlap Distress Ink
Antique Linen Distress Ink

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Tattered Tree - Tim's Tag #7

While I wasn't crazy over Tag #6, I love the earth colors of Tim's Tag #7.  I followed his process and techniques pretty closely.  I love kraft glassine, but have never used alcohol inks on it.  I know you can't stamp on it with regular stamping ink but I never thought about colorizing it with alcohol inks.  I followed his directions and it worked wonderfully.    I loved what he did with the holly leaves but I wanted to change up a bit so I broke out the new pine tree die I just bought.  The "Winter Fun" and subtle snowflakes are Stampin' Up rub ons that have been in my stash for the past two years.  Nothing is much of a mystery here.  I did put  a little gold mesh under the burlap. It twinkles pretty nicely IRL.  Let me know if you have any questions.









Linked up to: Inspiration Emporium/Inspiration Journal 12 Tags - Tag 7

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