12 Tags of 2014 - August

Hi All

What a month, had a fab holiday in the US, Las Vegas, San Francisco and New York, my daughter's 18th birthday and her A level results and the realisation she is going to university in 20 days time!!!!
And breathe!

It's no wonder I'm a little late with my attempt at the tag for this month but here we go.

As I haven't had much of this this month, I chose a Time theme.  I stamped the two sentiments with archival ink, both are from Tim's stamp sets and then stencilled some 'coffee rings' using grunge paste and an unidentified stencil I found in one of my boxes.

Once the paste had dried I used dusty concord, shaded lilac and broken china distress stain to marble the tag and to filled in the gaps with a little more broken china.  A brisk rub with dusty concord and a distress tool around the edges and the colour was done.   I like the way the grunge paste resists the ink to a degree giving a faded look to the 'coffee rings'.   Any stain left on the non-stick craft sheet was mopped up with some seam binding.

I die cut the Weathered Clock from Engraving Art copper board and rubbed with Tim's sanding tool to reveal the metallic copper core.  The good times banner is some acetate that I put through an embossing machine with the Authentic set of shadow press words.  I then rubbed black soot distress paint across and wiped off the excess so the word popped out.  This was then attached to the tag with staples.

I painted an Ideaology word band with some dusty concord distress paint, again wiping off the excess and attached with some twine.  The seam binding that I dyed earlier was tied in a bow at the top.

Whew, what a month.  I don't think September is going to be any less busy but that's life!

Lyn

CC3C - Challenge 9

Hi all,

This challenge was frames stamps and framelits.  I was quite relieved that this did not come up sooner as I've only just received my sets so ever onwards....

I used the Compass Blueprint set for my tag.  I used water colour card and coloured it using the wrinkle free distress technique and colours spun sugar, faded jeans and peacock feathers.  I then edged the card with faded jeans and a blending tool to give a bit of depth.  I then used a spritzer to add splotches of dusty concord around the outer part of the card.

I then stamped the compass using black archival ink so that the image went slightly off the card.  I then used the required technique to get the centre of the compass in both textured silver card and gold mirri card.  These were then decoupaged onto the water colour card.

The text was stamped onto a piece of scrap card with the outline and die cut in the same way and mounted onto the card with 3D foam.  A key with the word Life was sewn to the card.   To give the water colour card more definition  I went round the edges with a silver Krylon pen.  The water colour card was mounted onto a tag that had been edged with dusty concord.

A pointing hand from a Tim Holtz ephemera pack was added to the top of the tag with 3D foam.  I then coloured some seam binding with the same inks as the card and added a loop of ribbon to the top of the tag.

Whew that was a bit of a rush as we have been on holiday till Thursday, in America so lots of new inspiration, so I wasn't sure I'd get it done in time.  Well here it is hope you like it.

As usual thanks to Linda for hosting this lovely crafty extravaganza, look here for some fantastic examples from the crafty crew and to Inspiration Emporium for sponsoring the challenge.

Lyn

CC3C Challenge 8

Hi all,

Challenge 8 is the faded layers from page 58 of the Compendium of Curiosities.  This always challenges me as I'm not sure is I'm getting it right but here goes!

I coloured the coated card with currant, terra cotta and raisin alcohol ink then used the Tim Holtz stencil crocodile to produce the faded layer effect.  This was then echoed on the other side of the card with picket fence distress stain.  The dragonfly blueprint stamp and the small butterfly stamps were stamped in black archival.  The wings of the stamped dragonfly were coloured with a mixture of citrus and sail boat blue alcohol inks.

The large dragonfly was cut from textured silver card using the Tim Holtz die layered dragonfly and coloured with the citrus and sailboat blue alcohol ink as before. The wings of the dragonfly were cut from acetate using the same die and embossed using the corresponding embossing folder then coloured with the same alcohol inks.

The body was some some 'novelty' stickers I had in my stash and I like the oil on water look they had.

I finished with the sentiment and a word band from Idea-ology.  I swiped the band with picket fence distress stain to pick out the words and cleaned off the excess, then attached it using some pink twine.

Thanks to The Funkie Junkie for sponsoring this challenge and of course to Linda for starting this creative madness in the first place! Such Fun!

Lyn

CC3C challenge 7

Hi All

This challenge is the painted industrial from page 46 of the compendium of curiosities.  I really enjoyed this challenge and came up with something whimsical...a birdhouse!

I stuck some self adhesive metal sheet to some kraft card and then die cut the roof using the Sizzix die Susans' Garden.  The other elements of the birdhouse were cut from kraft card.  I then followed the instructions on page 46 to prepare my roof.  The walls of the birdhouse were embossed with the Sheena Douglas embossing folder wood panel.  I then used a little vintage photo distress ink to bring out the wood grain.

I had cut the bird from the Tim Holtz die caged bird but then spotted the bird on one of the quarter size papers in the wallflower paper stash and decided to use him instead so I stuck him to the die cut bird and trimmed the excess, to give him a little more strength.

The roses were made from the rest of the quarter paper from the wallflower paper stash using the reverse side, a little worn lipstick distress ink and the tattered pine cone die.  The leaves were cut using the garden greens die and grunged a bit with walnut stain distress ink.

Every self respecting house needs a chimney and in keeping with my woodland theme (?) I decided it would be a toadstool.  Just a roll of kraft card for the pipe, painted with picket fence distress stain.  A circle cut from kraft card and stained red with festive berries and some white spots drawn on then made into a cone and stuck on the top.

Thanks to Linda for all this crafty fun doing these challenges and to Inspiration Emporium for sponsoring this challenge.  Hope you like it.

Lyn

Just for me!

Hi all

This is a piece that is not for a competition but just for me.  I went to a workshop recently held by Country View Crafts and led by Brenda Brown where we explored these little bottles of wonderfulness.....Dylusions ink sprays.

We learnt various techniques and then did our first art journalling page in a lovely new journal.  I love a new book, don't you, lots of pages to fill.  Well yesterday I decided to go solo and start my own art journal journey!

I also tried out zentangle for the first time on this page.  The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set 'Good Thoughts' which I stamped onto cream card then cut into single words and edged with a black pro marker.  Not the most detailed page in the world but for a first solo attempt I'm quite happy.

Lyn

CC3C - Challenge 6

Hi all,

This challenge was to use the burlap panels, see page 37.  This was a little difficult as I only had the pack of four small ones and wanted to use a larger panel (I'm a woman and its my duty to be difficult!).  Well I ordered some of the 4x6inch panels and I'm still waiting for the delivery, any hoo!

I used one of the small rectangle panels and some rather nice roses that I found in my stash:

I covered the front and part of the sides with  Melange tissue wrap from Idea-ology, then covered one corner with gesso and left this to almost dry.  When there were just a few damp patches I wiped the gesso with a baby wipe to give a little more texture.  I stamped the image from the Tim Holtz stampers anonymous set classics 14 onto tissue with archival ink.  I then used distress pens to scribble some ink on to my craft sheet, I used spun sugar, shaded lilac and scattered straw.  I spritzed with water as I just wanted a hint of colour and smooshed the tissue into the ink puddle then dried with a heat gun.

I then glued it to the panel using IndigoBlu Slap It On matte and also put a layer over the tissue to seal it.  A light dusting of walnut stain distress ink round the outside aged it a little.  The roses were also dusted with walnut stain distress ink and glued to the panel.  I cut some leaves from dark green card and inked them using versa mark champagne sparkle ink and covered them in clear embossing powder, and stuck them between the roses.  The stems of the roses that I had cut off were twisted round a wooden skewer to make spirals and glued under the roses.

Thanks to Linda for hosting this challenging event and to Funkie Junkie Boutique for sponsoring this particular challenge.

Hope you like it.

Lyn

12 tags of 2014 - July

Hi all,

This month's tag has a seaside theme, (where did I leave my bucket and spade, oh well). I tried Tim's method for making sand and it was really easy, although I didn't have the same colours of embossing powder so I improvised!

I had some glossy card stock so I used this for the background. I used spun sugar, tumbled glass and faded jeans distress ink and brayered them onto the card.  I took a piece of cling film and spritzed it with water then draped it, wet side down, on to the inky surface making sure there were lots of creases in the cling film.  When this was dry, I peeled off the cling film and had a lovely watery background.

I cut some acetate and embossed it using the Sheena Douglas embossing folder Tigerprint, I don't have a watery embossing folder but this looked like the ripples you get in the sun on water, tres cool!

The boat and shells were from the Sheena Douglas stamp sets Sea scapes and Sea shells and stamped on to card and coloured with distress markers then I painted the shells with Pebeo Ice acrylic glaze to give them a subtle shine.

I layered the 'sand' with the shells and the boat and made a sign post with some scrap card, the little bird is a stamp that was on my desk but I cannot remember where I got it.  I finished off with some jute ribbon and a little bit of black twine.

Hope you like it.

Lyn