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A layered tag with pockets. Een label gemaakt uit laagjes die vakjes vormen. More labels and wishes in each pocket. Nog meer labels en wensen in de vakjes gestopt. Stamping, embossing, punching, sponging, stitching... Stempelen, embossen, ponsen, sponzen, stikken,... This photo shows the labels and the leather backside of the tag. Stitching all layers together was quite easy. Op deze foto zie je de labels en de lederen achterkant van de tag. Het viel goed mee om het allemaal aan elkaar te stikken. Happy Birthday Anneke!!
Happy New Year! I hope you had a really great Christmas and New Year! I took a bit of a break and we visited my family. The boys both enjoyed Christmas so much. I started typing this up yesterday on New Year's Eve, but didn't get to finish it. Today is the first day of 2016, and I am hoping it will be a great year. I thought I'd pick some of my favourite projects from 2015, even though I am not good at picking favourites. If I had made these choices tomorrow, I might very well have picked different projects. Here we go: From January, I picked this art journal page, since it was about our move and I like the combination of stamps and colours here. In February, I made this Discover Bird House, and had such fun both with the finish of the house and with all the details. You can find the full tutorial here. Another favourite in February, was this Textured Butterflies tag, on which I tried out some new techniques. It is also a tutorial. The most important event in February, was the early birth of Leo, and this is his first layout, with pearlescent pastels and vellum butterflies. He was so tiny. In March, I made this happy Bird Crazy art journal page. It makes me smile every time I see it in my journal. Another favourite Bird Crazy project was a wall panel, which I made for Anton. One of my favourite mini albums this year, is this wallet album about the time from when I found out I was pregnant, until Leo came home from the hospital. It is full of memories and photos. Another April favourite was this Nature's Toolbox Tutorial, made with a Sizzix die by Eileen Hull, and filled with an accordion booklet with tools for life, in the form of quotes about nature. One of my new favourite products this year were the Sizzix Inksheets, and I used them in this Inksheet Resist tutorial. I also like that photo of Anton, walking to the car on his last day of school with his back pack and soft toy. In June, I made a Roots canvas with fun mixed media techniques and a pretty stencil by StencilGirl. I also really like the quote from Tolkien and the block design. I've been wanting to start making video tutorials for a long time, and this Quilled Flowers in a Mason Jar was the first one. Speaking of videos, I hope to make a new one soon, it is now too cold to shoot outdoors and I am still looking for the right light/tripod set up, something that works for my space and has a quick set up. Another art journal page, where I used some happy Distress colours and DIY ink pads. This Poppy Mixed Media panel was made with Simon Says Stamp exclusive dies, and I like the way both the dimensional flowers and the textured background turned out. I picked this layout about an autumn outing since it uses one of my favourite photos of the boys. They were placed in a scene which depicts our day of autumn trees, leaves, cycling and time for reflection. In September, I did a resist technique video with Distress Micro Glaze, which I have had such fun using this year, and with a bird that paints the world, much like what I want to do. One of my favourite new dies during 2015 was Tim Holtz Village Dwelling, and I made an Autumn House, as well as a Winter Church and a Gingerbread House with it. The Spooky Book Cabinet was my favourite Halloween project, with tiny books in which I wrote stories for Anton. One of my favourite Christmas projects each year, is my December Daily journal. This year, I made a Countdown Calendar to go with it, and I am happy to report that it worked very well. Having the daily journaling tags out on display in the calendar, made it easier for me to remember documenting each day. I love snow, and I had fun making this winter journal to document our winter memories. We didn't have snow during Christmas, but it fell a few days later and still remains. Let's finish with a recent project, this Owl in Winter Window, which now hangs on the wall in front of my desk. I used the same window stamp by Finnabair on this Ticket Notebook. This turned into a long post. Thank you for watching and a big thank you to everyone who reads my blog! I am looking forward to a creative 2016. Happy crafting! Anna-Karin
Hi everyone! I had lots of fun making Tim’s May tag of 12 tags of 2012. Here is my version: I did the background much the same as Tim, stamping on clothing pattern tissue paper – I used Archival Ink Olive and Plum. Instead of stamping the dress form, I decided to use the dress form die, because I enjoy dressing it up in different ways. I painted it cream and embossed the stand with Platinum powder. The body was covered with quite a thick layer of Glossy Accents and I put vintage buttons into it. Then I sprinkled two sizes of pearl mica flakes over the whole thing, which got stuck to all the places where there were no buttons. I once found bags and bags of vintage buttons in a shop for almost nothing. They had been cut from old clothing and needed a scrub before they could be used. I love having such a bit supply of buttons at home. I love UTEE, and loved the look of the faux porcelain flowers Tim made. The flowers were inked with Aged Mahogany, Squeezed Lemonade and Shaded Lilac. I couldn’t find a wooden spool at home, so instead I made a spool with grungeboard using a spool die. It was painted first cream and then dry-brushed with brown. I also added three wooden buttons to the tag. Thank you for stopping by!! Anna-Karin Supplies: Stamper’s Anonymous Tim Holtz Attic Treasures; Sizzix Sewing Room Bigz die; Distress ink: Frayed Burlap, Aged Mahogany, Squeezed Lemonade and Shaded Lilac; Distress Stain Aged Mahogany; Tim Holtz Idea-ology reinforcers, measuring tape and hanger; Ranger Platinum embossing powder; grungeboard; Jenni Bowlin paint dabbers; US ArtQuest mica flakes; sewing pattern; wooden buttons; white paper flowers; UTEE; vintage buttons; cheese cloth.
Good afternoon Lovelies! Well I've been enjoying this lovely crisp but dry weather. I'm sharing with you a couple of things I've made over ...
These weekly tags are inspired by the Master of Distress Tim Holtz Introducing this weeks tag : Riding the Rails These weekly tags ...
More on my blog: www.thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com Minky by Daniel Torrente, beeswings by Jo Capper Sandon, sentiment by Carol all for Stampotique. Inks by Dylusions Iwww.afth.co.uk)
Una delle mie cardmaker preferite, Vicky, ha cominciato nel 2013 con un bellissimo progetto AJ molto particolare ispirato ai suoi hobby e le sue passioni. Nei suoi video mostra le tecniche e usa i colori in modo magnifico. Today I'm sharing a tag made from a VIDEO pf one of my favorite carmaker, Vicky, who's 2013 project is a GREAT Art journal plenty of techniques and inspirations. L'ultimo suo progetto è dedicato al caffè! MA sbirciando sul blog e il canale ho riguardato la pagina di aprile,dedicato alla lettura. Ho quindi copiato la tecnica della pila dei libri. Lo sfondo è fatto con una pagina di un vecchio libro incollata con lo studio matte (finalmente ho capito a cosa serve)! Her last work is about coffee and it's lovely, but I was inspired by april's one that was inspired by reading and I try to make the book pile she created (Let's check her one, it's amazing!!) con questa tag partecipo ai due challenge di Simon says stamp che hanno come tema Anything goes: SIMON SAYS STAMP MONDAY CHALLENGE SIMON SAYS STAMP WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE THANKS vicky! ευχαριστίες!
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Lucky Day...it's when you get the first parking space at a busy store or when you find the thing that you have been looking for forever or it's finding a friend when you weren't even looking for one. What a LUCKY day.
I'm back today with an artsy canvas tag project to share for Impression Obsession Week at Stamper's Dream. The canvas tag (oh my gosh, I'm in love!) is from Maya Road. First I inked up Impression Obsession's large Music Cover-A-Card Background Stamp in Ranger's new Pumice Stone Distress Ink and stamped the whole tag. It's a very light effect, so you may not see it in the photo. Next I added a Prima crystal and pearl flourish, followed by some May Arts Ivory Loose Braid Wired Ribbon topped with some gray twill Pink Paislee Ribbon Pleats. Another oh my gosh, I'm in love - this twill comes already pleated and stitched! The ribbon border is topped by a loopy bow made from some Offray skinny ribbon and a Prima flower. Last comes the three Impression Obsession Mannequins, which I stamped onto Neenah Classic Crest Solar White card stock and colored using Prismacolor pencils. I trimmed each one out before adhering to the tag, partly so the crystals could show from behind and partly so I could nudge them a little closer together. To replace the rod portion of the stamped image, which I wasn't able to successful trim around, so therefore cut off altogether, I simply hot glued the tops and bottoms onto straight pins. Worked beautifully! Be sure to check out Dream Teammates Cammie, Michelle, Silke, and Tosh, who are also posting Impression Obsession lovelies today. Thanks so much for visiting!
Nytt år og Tim Holtz har startet opp med sine 12 tags og 2014 Det er alltid så inspirerende å lage tag's som Tim Holtz legger ut i sin blogg. Mange flotte teknikker han viser der. Fragments charms er farget med Alcohol Ink Sirkelen i stjernen stanset jeg ut med Sizzix Movers & Shapers Magnetic Die Set 3PK - Sized Circles Ha en fin dag alle sammen. Anne Kristine Supply list:
Forays into visual journaling, stamping, scrapbooking and altered art of all persuasions.
www.thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com Made with a Tim Holtz large die cut tag. inks and stamps by Dylusions at www.afth.co.uk
For the A Vintage Journey Monochrome theme this month I shared 3 tags I had made - all in blue! Well there were actually 5 (once I had finished them) so just popping back today to share the final 2. If you missed the original post you can find it here - with details of how I created these backgrounds using various distress products. Here are two I didn't show last time and the image above shows all 5 together. It is Tag Friday at a Vintage Journey - so if you are looking for more tag inspiration do hop over! Til next time Nikki x
Hiya Ive actually had the time this fortnight to join in with The Stampman Challenge. Yay!! They've probably forgotton who I am!!LOL I even bought the Sizzix Sewing Room Die about a month back and this is the first time Ive used it!! But Ive got to say I'm so glad I did and I'm sure I'll get loads of use from it. I even let loose on my sewing machine. Papers i have used are the gorgeous Pion Design. I have put everything I used over on The Stampman Challenge Blog. Also go check out the rest of the DT's creations. Fantastic as always. Also don't forget the open day at The Stampman on Saturday. Believe me there's BARGAINS GALORE! Unbelieveable bargains!! x Have a great weekend and thankyou for looking. Love Debbie xxx
Hello everyone and lovely to have you visiting! Welcome to followers old and new. Today I want to share my Tim Holtz November tag. The original can of course be found HERE. I followed Tim's instructions pretty much exactly, so I won't go into how I made it as you can read all about that on Tim's blog. I just used a different colour scheme, as here in Scotland, the Autumn colours have pretty much disappeared, so I kept it more wintery. The colours I used were Antique Linen, Pumice Stone and Aged Mahogany, for the background, and Walnut Stain and Brushed Pewter on the corrugated card. I don't have the Ranger foil, so I used Pebeo instead, it's actually much lighter gold than it came out on the photos, so really goes quite well with the pewter colour, even though I normally would not mix gold and silver.... I did not have the embellishments Tim used, so used a word band and enamel number instead. I decided at the beginning of the year to mount all of my 12 tags on a larger size 10 tag, so stuck with that idea, here is the background to the larger tag: I painted the tag with Snow White Fresco Finish paint and then spritzt with Brushed Pewter, Iced Spruce and Walnut Stain sprays and did a little bit of background stamping too. I cut a little tab for the top with the tiny tags and tabs die out of silver Mirri card and then aged it with Brushed Pewter and Walnut Stain sprays. When I heat set it, it started to bubble and gave a cool metal effect, - great new discovery that.. I added the month with the little Tim Holtz letter stickers, sanding them a bit first to distress them, a cool trick I learnt from the wonderful Paula Cheney a while back. I adhered the smaller tag onto the larger one at a slight angle and that was pretty much it. Now while I was at it, I decided to turn the leaf which had been cut from corrugated card into a Christmas card, using a very similar colour scheme: I decorated the inside of my card in a similar way as my previous set of cards, as all the stamps etc were still on my desk. Well, that's it for today. I'll be back on Friday when there is a new challenge over at A Vintage Journey. I am of course adding my tag to Tim's Tag Challenge for November. Not much time to spare, but at least I made it... Now to the Happy Mail: A while back I did some translating for the wonderful Dagmar, who lives in Germany and struggles with English. Well, look what arrived in the post a couple of days ago: This stunning tag! It was a project she posted on the Countryview Challenge blog as she was a winner and I helped her translating the description, it's so stunning! But, that was not all, look at this: A stunning little folder, not only beautiful, but practical too, for inside it looks like this: There is a space to keep notes: Gift ideas, To do list, shopping list and Christmas cards. Such a clever and practical idea. And last but not least, a lovely little desk calendar booklet: Love the mail art style of the covers! Here is the inside: Thank you sooooo much Dagmar!!! Well that is it for now. Have a fantastic week everyone!!
Hello everyone and thank you for visiting here. This is Astrid sharing a project with you that will hopefully give you some inspiration to work with multiple layers and collage. The finished project is a large (8 x 8) pocket card and tag. What I am hoping to show you is how to build up a layered collage step by step, but to be honest, I am feeling quite nervous about it, because the truth is, I normally do my artwork like my cooking, - I never follow a recipe and just go with the flow. But as several of my blog friends have specifically asked me, to do a step by step on how I create my layered pieces, I'll try my best and hope I can take you along on the journey. The base layer is a folded piece of Kraft card with a small spine to give room for the pocket. I am lucky enough to have some A3 Kraftcard which was just the right size, but you could easily create a spine with a separate piece of card. However, for this post I will concentrate on how I built up the main part. I started with a piece of square Manila card stock and inked all around the edges with a mix of Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress Inks. As the centre is going to be covered with the next layer, there is no need to do the inner part, but to add a bit more interest to this layer I did some water stamping with a little background stamp, below is a close up: The next layer started with a piece of smooth white card stock, cut slightly smaller than the first bit. I added texture with Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste through my favourite layering stencil of the moment, the new Gothic Stencil by Tim Holtz of course. When building up a design it is important to keep the eventual balance of the piece in mind, so in fact I turned the paper the other way round when I built up the next layers, as it usually works better to have darker and heavier elements towards the bottom of your finished piece. When the texture paste had dried, I added some colour with three different colours of Distress Paint: Antique Linen, Weather Wood and Frayed Burlap. I used a brush, my fingers and most importantly a baby wipe and a water spritzer to blend the colours until I was happy with the effect. To echo the textures of the paste I used the baby wipe, pouncing it in the wet paint to add some further textures. Doing something like that, helps to tie the different parts of the piece together, - I just love the subtle effect of this process. Time to slowly start to build up further layers: First I added some more stenciling, this time using just Distress Inks in the same colours, Weathered Wood and Frayed Burlap, using the Lattice work Stencil this time, another favourite. I also added some tissue tape and background stamping, again, trying to keep a balance in the overall effect. So far so good on the background, - now to the collage: Most importantly, a vocal image, this could be a stamp, a photo or whatever you choose. For the front of my piece I decided to use the sweet girl from the Found Relatives and then I collected various bits and pieces, some tickets, stamped and fussy cut images, some bits of various paper stashes etc. I inked and coloured them to fit in with my overall colour theme: Here you can see them but at this point I am not sure yet whether I will use them all or not, or will add additional pieces still. Before committing to anything definite, it is always a good idea to play around a bit and see how things might work out, below is a picture where I am just playing like that, as you will see, there will be various changes still along the way... Nothing is glued down yet, so all is possible still, just play around with your pieces until you feel the design looks good and balanced. Some things to keep in mind are: - vertical and horizontal lines - arranging elements so the eye can move easily around the page - balance between darker and lighter elements etc. Right, time to start gluing down, I always like to have my vocal image with some layers behind and some on top, so this is what I landed up with first of all: I have put the ticket at an angle to break up the stark vertical and horizontal lines. The dark 45c piece definitely needs to be balanced out as does the heavy Received ticket: Getting a bit better already, but there are still a few funny gaps, the whole piece is also a bit bottom heavy, so what next? I have this round piece left, useful to break up the blockiness, but where to put it? Top right? Bottom right? where? So many possibilities.... Which one is better, - the left or the right? Neither quite does it for me, or am I starting to over think? I know, - no collage Tim Holtz style is quite complete without some Ideaology, so in the end I land up with this: A stencilled Number, this time in Black to balance out the heavier elements in the bottom left corner, a type-charm and rusted pen-nib to help the eye move around the page and finally (though I am not totally sure about this) the bit of measuring tape ribbon, to balance out the vertical lines on the left. It looks a bit forlorn there, but I have just thought of a solution for that, but you will see that in a moment. Are you still with me? Onto the inside of the card, I'll go a bit quicker this time round as this post is pretty endless already. A basic sideways pocket created with bits from the French Industrial paper stash. As you can see, I stitched both the front and the back to the base card with some messy stitching. A central panel done in the same way as the front, but this time without the texture paste. Some stencilling, done just with inks and then the collage, going through the same process, playing around with elements until some balance is achieved, - this time the vocal image is a freebie from the net, it can be found here. This wonderful lady posts freebies every Friday. On this photo the design is still a bit bottom heavy, but that will be balanced with the clip and heart that will be showing on both the front and the back, all rusted up with rusting powder for the vintage look: Now all that is left to do is the tag: However, as this post is so long already, I will do a separate post on that on my blog in a few days time. So here you can see the tag in the pocket: And here you can see the full inside: If you are still with me, congratulations on being so patient. I hope you have enjoyed this project and that I have given you some inspiration to have a go at multiple layers and collage yourself. One final bit I have not mentioned is that it makes all the difference if you add some shadow to your vocal image. You can use a Distress marker, a coloured pencil or some charcoal, the possibilities are endless. All the principles of this tutorial can be followed on both large and small projects, so why not join in our ATC challenge and give it a go?. Almost all of the products used in this project are available from Countryview Crafts our wonderful sponsors. I hope you have enjoyed my destination inspiration. Thank you so much for visiting today and have a great creative week ahead! xxx
Hi Folks...time to share Workshop No 3 which was stamping with Hero Arts...making a Tag Book and thanks to my lovely buddy Anne for sharing...
Adhere the house embellishments and the apply a coat of Crackle Paint to an MDF Tag Apply Crackle Paste with a palette knife to form the landscape and clouds I spritzed the tag with water and applied small amounts of the following DecoArt Media Fluid Acyrlics colours, spritzing and allowing to blend and flow Prussian Blue Cobalt Teal Hue Green Gold Yellow Oxide Burnt Umber Prussian blue was applied and spritzed bleeding downwards, wiping back on the texture clouds The houses in the foreground were lifted with a little dry brushing of Titanium White
Hello and happy Sunday! I've been waiting so eagerly to share these tags with you since the day I created them! You might remember seei...
Hello everyone, welcome to the second inspiration piece for the challenge over at Country View Challenges. I am hosting this month and I have chosen the theme of blues and greens. Use them any way you like as long as the main colours are blues and greens, easy ! You could win a £20 voucher for the shop too ! Here's mine: If you'd like to know how I made this then hope over you my YouTube Channel where you will find a VIDEO. or you can click on the picture below: Thank you so much for stopping by today !
This is my design piece for the Stamp Man challenge this week and the lovely Frankie has chosen the theme 'Travel'. Since I just came back off holiday you would think this would be easy for me - but no, it tested my imagination again. Hurry up Mr Mojo and give me some spontaneity. Inspiration has come from these challenges - Simon Says Stamp and Show is also travel, Take a Word - Old fashioned (the plane certainly is) and The Paper Variety has another travel theme. Anyway I created a tag card. On the front I glued some TH atlas paper then swooshed it a bit in paints and dry stippled some over it too. Then I spritzed with gold mist. Over that I blended DIs and edged the whole card with vintage photo. I've stamped the sentiment and other bits straight onto the card and stamped the plane onto copper metal, made a tape sandwich with strong card and cut it out, sealing the edges with a metal tool. Using a trinket pin, I added a philosophy tag to the ribbon. I used the stains and spritz for the inside of the card and made it look like a place for the correspondence with a MME stamp and using a TH 'post card' stamp as well. I have a friend having her 60th birthday coming up, so I might use this as her birthday card as she just loves to travel. Supplies TH paper stash - crowded attic TH die - tag Adirondack paint dabber - smidge of blue, yellow pastel Crown metallic paint - refresh TH stamps - air travel Cosmic Shimmer - rich gold DIs - shabby shutters, scattered straw, vintage photo Archival Ink - black Moon Glow spritz - horny toad teal Starburst Stains - pulpit teal, sea mint green I hope you will pop over to the challenge blog to see all the wonderful creations from the amazing team and hopefully you will find the inspiration to take part. Don't forget there is a £10 voucher for the Stamp Man shop for the lucky winner chosen by the DT. Have a wonderful weekend, I am off to Birmingham to celebrate an 18th birthday. luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox
Hello everyone. My posts are scheduled at the moment while I am on my hols - so if I haven't been to visit you in a while it is because I am without an internet connection. Be back soon! The challenge starting today at A Vintage Journey is to 'Use a Portrait' - any portrait will do. Our Tim Holtz inspired challenge does not mean you have to use his products just to be inspired by him. I used some 'Found Relatives' images for my tags. I got a little carried away making these so forgot to take many photos - whoops. I started with some mop up tags I found on my desk! They would have been from distress paints ( have I told you how much I love them!). I then proceeded to add some background interest with stamping and stencils. I focussed on letters and numbers as I had the theme of the two young girls in my mind, learning and developing - they reminded my of two sisters. I am afraid that is where the process photos stopped. I selected some elements from Tim's paper stashes to go on my tags and played around with collage layouts for quite a while. All my final bits were distressed and inked at the edges. I took a doily and coloured it with tarnished brass distress paint too. The butterflies are punched using a Stampin' Up punch. I took an old book page and coloured it with broken china distress ink before scrunching it up and punching them out. I stapled 3 together on each tag and added a little linen twine. My flower is a bought one which I sprayed with distress sprays. I coiled the wire attached to the flower and placed it through the tag hole. The little hearts were coloured with broken china and rock candy crackle added. And that is my two tags! I hope you like them. Thanks for looking Nikki xxx
I know I have juggled the days about, but this is my last class for CC 102, I now have all 30+ tags finished and the most fabulous resource for inspiration and teaching. So …......… the last 8 tags to go in my collection. Fabulous techniques using stencils. Sorry, the light is dreadful here this morning, it’s pouring of rain and I took about 30 photos of this tag and this is the best I can get it. #7 – Mixed-Media Layering #8 – Embossing with Stencils #8b – Embossing with stencils part 2 #9 – Embossing through Stencils #10 – Stencil Stamping #11 – Stencil Sketching #12 – Ink Monoprint #13 – Paint Monoprint My tags are all labelled, put in a ring and ready for me to use. Thanks to Tim, Mario and the team for putting this great class together and providing amazing inspiration, learning and a place to see and share our projects and other people’s wonderful take on the classes too. I shall miss this next week, but what fun it’s been. Before I get back to DT and workshop samples I would like to wish you a happy Sunday and thank you too for being part of my creative journey and for all the comments you leave, it is so much appreciated. “One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity”. Edward de Bono hugs {brenda} x0x
Hello everyone from a very blustery and cold Shetland (I hope the weather is better beside you!). At least it means guilt free crafting as it is far too cold to do any gardening, so yesterday I had a
Grunge Monday har en ny utfordring og denne gangen er utfordringen : A new dimension... Tim Holtz viser noen fine teknikker i sin blogg. Husene er stanset ut med Tim Holtz sizzix dies. Tag'en og husene er malt med distress stains. Tekst stempel fra Tim H. Ønsker deg en fortsatt fin torsdag. Klem Anne Kristine
Hi everyone. I am always looking for new ideas to create embellies for junk journals and art journal pages, especially ones that use items up from my stash. While browsing on Pinterest last week, I found one of those and I loved it so much the way it was, that I barely changed anything. It was originally on a blog belonging to Dorota Kopec, a very talented art journaller and artist. She is from Poland and her blog is certainly worth a good long look as she has wonderful ideas and creations. Her tags clusters were used on art journal pages but I thought they would make awesome tuck spots for junk journals as well. I started by die cutting partial tags from both white and kraft cardstock. The white ones were 2 inches high and 2 inches wide. The kraft ones were 2.25 inches high by 2 inches wide. Both sets were inked around with Coffee Archival Ink and then Ground Espresso Distress Ink to deepen the edging. They were stamped with a variety of stamps using the same Coffee Archival Ink. Mainly writing or numbers stamps were used on the white tags and images or collage stamps were used on the kraft ones. White reinforcements were punched to surround the holes on the kraft tags and kraft ones created for the white tags. The tags were topped with very fine hemp and then overlapped different amounts and with either the kraft tag on top or with the white one there. I wanted to change them up a little. I created a few different embellishments for the tag clusters but before I adhered them, I had to decide the orientation on the page for each one. They would either be adhered along the bottom of the page or on either side. The one above would be adhered along the bottom edge of the tag cluster to allow something to tuck underneath with the tags holding it in place. The one above would be adhered to the left side of a page. For the black and white heart embellie, I stamped the heart from one of Carabelle Studio Hearts & Pebbles stamp set onto white cardstock with Jet Black Archival Ink, fussy cut it, and inked the edges with Coffee Archival. Then the edge of each heart was inked with Black Big Brush Pen to help frame it. A small threaded vintage button was added over that and a scrap of cheesecloth was layered underneath the heart. Similar steps were taken using a thread label stamp and also a die cut primitive heart. I also did a few using a tiny crocheted doily topped with a corrugated cardboard punched star. or a vintage white button. I think they all turned out really sweet and can see how they could be further adapted depending upon the tag paper and embellishments used. A big shout-out to Dorota Kopec for the wonderful idea! Thanks for stopping by today. That was awesome of you :) Life is good; so is art. Bonnie
Week five of the Sizzix blog hop is here! I pretty much literally tumbled off the plane from France and into my craft room to whip up this week's project! I was sent these pieces... ...which create the gift card holder below (this is the example from the Sizzix website): I decided not to make the gift card holder. Instead I used the various parts of the die cuts as a stencil. I used watercolor paint to create the flowers along the border of this tag: I'm a little in love with black Maya Mist, which creates this cool spray...
Tim Holtz never fails to amaze me - and this show is no exception! This post is going to be a long one - I've got a LOT to cover. When I first saw distress paints thrilled wouldn't begin to cover
Hello everyone, For my post for AALL & Create today, I have made a tag. Here's how: First I cut a tag out of watercolour paper and added modelling paste through this fabulous stencil ! After the modelling paste was dry I sprayed the tag with Lindy's Stamping sprays. I had forgotten how much I love these sprays. I used so called 'Flat Fabios' which is a spray without any sparkle. I also love the names they give the colours: Tilt-a-wheel teal and Merry-go-round green. When the ink was dry I added some scrapings of white acrylic paint. Next: stamping ! yay ! I randomly stamped the background with Distress Oxide inks in the same-ish colours and added some black stamping for contrast. I also added a doodle line along the edges. Next I stamped the flowers I was going to use. The one with the Hexagonal background is slightly bigger than the other one. I coloured them with my Copic Markers and cut them out. I also chose the sentiment 'Do new things everyday' and stamped that too. And here is the whole thing together. I really like how this came out but that is probably because greens and blues are one of my favourite colour combinations. I have used the following stamps: #211 - Count on you #200 - Hope #205 - Postal Rose #206 Hexagonal Stem Stencil: #49 - Rota Vitae For more information about all the fabulous AALL & Create products, including a worldwide stockist list please visit: www.aallandcreate.com/boutique Thank you for stopping by today !
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Hi crafters! Today I have a tag to share using inks to create a lot of texture and layers. Please note: this post has affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you. Simon Says Stamp has a brand new release called Just For You and this tag was made with products from that release. I wanted to create something of a magical mushroom forest using the new Mushroom Stems die set. The Just For You release has a great mix of stamps, dies, stencils and other products which are great for both Easter, spring-time and other themes. There is even a pair of Pawsitively Everyday Scissors. I started by white embossing one of the pretty Simon Says Stamp Leaf Edges stamps on a tag. Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the tag into the ink. Let dry. Repeat to get deeper colors and more texture. I added one more layer of Distress Ink after this photo and then finished with a tiny bit of Distress Oxide ink. I missed taking a photo of that step unfortunately. Die cut the Simon Says Stamp Mushroom Stems twice from heavystock paper. Press Lost Shadow and Frayed Burlap on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the mushroom parts into the ink. I used mainly Lost Shadow. Color the hats in the same way using various colors. Let dry and then repeat the process once or twice with Distress Ink. If you only touch the paper to the ink you get a splotchy appearance. As with the background, I did a final layer using Distress Oxide inks, but only in a few areas of the images. Shape the mushrooms with Tim Holtz Shaping kit and adhere the colorful hats with Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Perfect Foam Tape. Dye May Arts Wrinkled Faux Silk Ribbon with Distress Ink, mist with water and crinkle. I adhered the mushrooms to the tag with more foam tape. The sentiments were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery, which wasn't a part of the new release. Here you can see the effect of the opaque Distress Oxide inks. I also used Simon Says Stamp Pretty Pastel sequins. You can make these mushrooms in any color imaginable. I dyed cheese cloth to form soil or undergrowth for the mushrooms. The small mushrooms are so cute. We had lovely sunny weather today, even though there is still some snow left. I am looking forward to spring-time in the forest. The tag has quite a bit of dimension. There will be more Just For You inspiration here on Saturday. Happy stamping! Anna-Karin Supplies: * Please note: the links are affiliate links, for which I receive a small percentage of sales generated by the link, at no extra cost to you.
Ciąg dalszy wymiany tagowej. O jednej z nich pisałam tutaj, o drugiej tutaj. Tym razem pokażę taga zrobionego dla Ayeedy. Papiery, stemple i klisza fotograficzna pochodzą z Hopmartu. Bilecik i czarny tusz archival pochodzi ze sklepu scrapki.pl. Kremowe, duże różyczki pochodzą z tego zestawu ze sklepu scrap.com.pl. Cudny ćwiek jest z Craftmanii. A tutaj zbliżenia na taga Spodobały mi się te wymiany tagowe. To miła odskocznia od kartek czy albumów. Uwielbiam je robić. Może ktoś jeszcze chętny na wymianę? Można pisać w komentarzach.
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