Tim's Tags Day Twelve - Peace

I have to say that my favorite tag from Tim is today's final tag.   I love the white and blue colors and the softness of the background.  That is what I tried to bring into my tag today.  I love the 12 days as he is always showcasing different techniques which inspire me to play with my inks, tools and just try something new.

 I have been wanting to use this Stampington angel on one of my twelve tags.  I used the sweet angel image  to replace the doll fragment Tim used. 

Quick run-down on what I did:

1. Stamp on background of the tag Hero Arts Design Block - Damask using black ink. 
2. Stamp Cornish Heritage Farms Scrapblock - Music sheet onto tissue paper about 4 times. 
3. Run tape over the surface of the tag. Layer on stamped tissue paper.  Repeat multiple times tearing excess and re-applying. Cut off excess tissue paper around the edges.
4. Coat with Distress Crackle Paint.  This caused the tag to bend and warp. So when it dried I attached it to a piece of re-cycled cardboard. 
5. Stamp angel onto white cardstock. Highlight with watercolor pencils. Versamark entire surface and heat emboss using Kaleidoscope embossing powder. 
6. Stamp tissue paper with music background. Cut in long strip. Fold every 1/4" back and forth (fan). Tie in center. Trim edges and fluff to flower. Spritz with glimmer mist. Apply glue along edges and glitter. 
7. Attach frill and tinsel along bottom. 
8. Cut house shape from thin chipboard. Emboss with embossing folder. Paint with white and blue paints. Apply blue dye ink over embossed areas. 
9. Stamp O Holy Night and cut. Sponge edges with blue dye ink. Attach to house. 
10. Pop Dot angel and apply to house. 
11. Apply dye ink, silver paint to sticker letters.  Apply glue pen and glitter. 

I forgot one little detail. I made a wire halo for my angel.  It is hard to see but so cute IRL!

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I just realized I forgot to pick the winner of my blog candy....  Drumroll please... 

 

Ros said...

How very pretty this is ... love the embossing and those pretty flowers

December 10, 2011 10:43 AM 

   

Congrats Ros!  Send me an email and I will put your prize in the mail! 

Have a wonderful day!

Suzz

Tim's Tags Day Eleven - Frosty the Snowflake

Off to a slow start on Tim's Tags Day 11!   I wanted to pull out the melt pot which involved a little work...

This is my melt pot creation or at least one of them....  I was lucky enough to get a melt pot from a good friend (Thanks Lisa!) although she told me it needed to be cleaned out... I thought I had cleaned it out... not realizing there was a second pan full of bees wax. :)  Until I had heated it up... So my technique ended up using bees wax. :)

Here is the full tag:

I started with a scrap I had made awhile ago from green and blue glimmer mists. I added a layer of stamping with the snowflakes embossed in white embossing powder.  I then stamped over using the music sheet and StaZon blue ink.  I added my forest and birds using brown ink. I then added some snow down on the bottom and on the branches of my trees.

The snowflake is the pinecone die leaves shrinky dinked, coated in bees wax and dipped in crushed glass glitter.  I put them together with a snowflake die as the center.  It is really pretty as it is coated in what looks like frost. 

I wasn't finished yet...

I created a star dipped in white embossing powder and stamped the nativity in black ink and embossed in white. With a stamping overlay of Joy to You definition stamp.

Stamps: Hero Arts, Memory Box, Penny Black

Thanks for stopping by!  One more day of tags... Than back to regular programming.  :)


Suzz

Peace, Love, and Joy

Tim's Tag #9 uses a lovely resist technique. That was the starting point for my inspiration:

I didn't have the candle or the light post which would have both been fun to play with and I knew I wanted the same shape so I pulled out a few dress forms laying around from the previous days.

Quick run down on the techniques:

1. Stamp script on background with brown ink. Let dry. 
2. Stamp Hero Arts Background Holly using versamark with the evergreen bough dye inked over the versamark on the stamp over the script background. Heat emboss using clear embossing powder. 
3. Sponge brown dye ink over surface. Smear gold paint around edges. 
4. Die cut dress form and emboss using  using Cuttlebug embossing folder. 
5. Smear versamark around edges and over embossed areas. Heat emboss using gold embossing powder.
6. Cut dress portion of form off and put on another form that has been inked in brown dye ink. 

That's the backgrounds and the rest is embellishments!  Thanks for all the wonderful comments and for stopping by!

Suzz

Golden Christmas

Tim's Tag #8 is a fun  steampunk tag...  I veered quite off the path this time... :)

I had previously embossed this folder and if you could see the other side you could see how many tries it takes me in the morning to get a tag done!  I flipped over the failure from earlier this week and used the manila side that had the embossing from the folder. 

Recipe:

1. Smear on with a sponge Aged Mahogeny, Evergreen Bough, and Gathered Twigs over the entire surface. 
2. Smear white acrylic paint to soften the colors.
3. Smear versamark over embossed areas and heat emboss with Queen's Gold embossing powder.
4. Distress edges with distressing tool. Smear edges with black archival ink. 
5. Ink up  Chipboard Time Piece with Versamark. Heat emboss with gold embossing powder. Distress edges with distressing tool and smear black ink over the edges. 
6. Cut holly leaves and smear Viva - Gold over leaves to add gold tinges. 
7. Stamp Artistic Outpost - Snowy Woods - Santa onto white cardstock using black ink. Color with watercolor pencils. Cut out
8. Stamp music background (Artistic Outpost - Ephemeral Backgrounds) using black ink on white cardstock and sponge over with brown dye ink. 
9. Stamp Joyuex Noel onto white cardstock using black ink. Stamp music background over with black ink. Sponge brown dye ink over surface. 
10. I smeared gold on the key and charm to blend in with my golden tag. 

Hope your week is going well!

Suzz