Think and Wonder

Tim's Tag for June was posted last night and I used that this morning to play around with a few of the techniques he shared. By the way he has the sweetest image available on his blog today that he used on his tag.  I didn't use it as my printer doesn't print out and hold color so it would have smeared if I used it. :) But you should pop over and pick it up if you like vintage photos.

Onto my tag:

 Here's my process as I had to vary from Tim's on where I didn't have the materials/tools in some cases.

Recipe:

1. Smear the Distress Stains onto craft mat as Tim shared. I used Dusty Concord and Picket Fence.  For some reason my Purple was being difficult so I ended up added more color with my ink pad. I spritzed with water and smeared onto my tag. 
2. Distress edges of tag and sponge with walnut dye ink. 
3. Stamp Artistic Outpost Secretary Pool image randomly over background using Ranger Archival Black Ink. 
4. The photo was something I have taken to a copier place (The Library has this available as well for a fee) and made copies in different sizes. I love the family picture. :)  I painted the girl and mother's outfit using Ranger Distress Ink smeared onto the craft mat and picked up with a waterbrush. I did the same for the boy and man's shirts with broken china. The girls outfit came out too dark so I ended up lighting it with a touch of the Picket Fence Distress stain. I applied that with a paint brush. I also added a few shadows with watercolor pencil to darken a few lines. 
5. Distress the edges of the photo with the distressing tool.  Sponge on the green, blue and brown in the background. Mount on cardstock. (Sponge edges with brown dye ink) 
6. Stamp Think and Wonder (Artistic Outpost) along the edge using StaZon black ink. 
7. Stamp Text onto vellum using StazOn ink. Tear edges and sponge with brown dye ink. 
8. My flower was peach. I didn't have anything in white that size.  I ended up distressing it with brown dye ink and applying the purple stain on the edges per Tim's instructions. 
9. The lace was distressed with the distress stain.  The ribbon with glimmer mist and I added gold embossing powder by smearing versamark onto the seam binding after the glimmer mist was applied. I then heat embossed some gold embossing powder onto the ribbon. 

That's all.... I hope you have a lovely weekend....

Suzz