Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Welcome to the Artistic Outpost Monthly Blog Hop!  This month we are featuring Masculine projects.  My DH has a special birthday coming up and I wanted to create something special to celebrate.


I started with a leftover paperbag that I thought would be fun to use as a big pocket for a series of tags.
I asked each of my kids to write down a series of memories they shared with their dad and I filled out the remaining ones to equal 50 special moments of time.


I cut out pieces of lined paper to use on the front of the tags.  I sprayed gold glimmer mist over stencils on the white paper to give different patterns and effects.  I stapled the paper to tags which were glimmer misted to match.  I distressed all the edges with brown dye ink.  I stamped the Paperboy in the bottom corner and colored with the image with watercolor pencils and waterbrush. I added a few stamped Extras randomly.

Each tag has stamped images mixed in with the journalling. 

The bag uses a combination of Glue Paste and gold Glimmer mist.  I stamped the boy from the PaperBoy onto the envelope.  I added a mix of the Newspaper words from the Paper plate and the ledger plate from Ephemera Backgrounds. I added the clocks from Auld Lang Syne along the top right of the pocket.

Hop along to the other fabulous inspiration from the other DT members:


Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

14 comments:

  1. wow it looks beautiful and what a great idea!

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  2. very beautiful Suzz. Happy Birthday to your hubby. Love the idea of the kids writing their memories.

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  3. What a lovely idea to write down a series of memories, your hubby will cherish this. Hope he has a fabulous birthday. Wonderful tags and Imlove that you created a bag/pocket to,house your tags too. Lovely. Tracy x

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  4. Fabulous, love the paperbag, its WOW you have decorated it beautifully,what a brilliant idea to get the kids to write on them, it freaking wonderful,its soooo special, thanks for sharing all this creativity and Dads gonna love it..

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  5. What an amazing, personal, thoughtful gift - and so beautifully done - wow!
    Alison x

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  6. You NEVER fail to wow me, Sue, but this is just over-the-top wonderful. The artwork is second to none and the thought and meaning behind it is incredibly special. What a wonderful gift for a loving husband and father! Thanks so much for sharing.

    Hugs,
    Linda

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  7. What a special creation for a special birthday! Love the idea of filling the bag with written memories. Tags and bags are gorgeous!

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  8. Cute idea with the bag, but the 50 thoughts, that is sweet and thoughtful!

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  9. Always love your creativity! Fabulous idea to recycle the bag into something wonderful! Love the idea of added the 50 Thoughts to the tags - I'm sure it will be a treasured gift!

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  10. Love, love, Love this! Your stamping and mix of colors is amazing, as always! Great idea to house the tags inside the bag!
    Kate

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  11. What a beautiful project and such a thoughtful idea,
    Rosie x

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  12. The bag is awesome, and the tags too cool! I love the designs on each one! Fabulous work!

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  13. oooh...grungy masculine and so cool..love the dimension...
    Tags are my fav...you gals have done an awesome job on this blog hope..
    connie

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