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Tim’s May Tag

Hello blog visitors, hope you’ve had a great Thursday.  Many thanks for the kind comments on my PaperArtsy key chains last night.

When I saw Tim’s tag at the beginning of the month, I didn’t think I’d be able to recreate it, as I didn’t have any rub ons, but a search through my stash revealed some by Kaisercraft, black & white & colour ones.

Here’s Tim’s gorgeous tag.  I love the Mona Lisa stamp, must get it at some point.

 

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Here’s my tag – the second attempt.  The black & white rub ons were a failure, they remained attached to their backing sheet, no matter how much I rubbed, so the first tag went in the bin.

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I think these coloured ones are ok, they fit quite nicely with the few distress stains I have.  The face is a La Blanche stamp & I added some stamping, using some of my TH stamps.  I added some Treasure Gold & Snowflake fresco paint to the philosophy tag.

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Thanks for looking.  Until next time,

Love & light.

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12 Tags of 2013…. April

Evening all, hope you had a great weekend.  I’m cutting it very fine with my take on Tim’s April tag, but I’m so pleased I made it, especially as I didn’t make anything for March – I don’t have a single thing that Tim used & no matter how hard I tried, I could not come up with a way of adapting what I do have to his idea.

Anyway.  Here is Tim’s gorgeous April tag & again, I don’t have the main ingredients, which are the Blueprint stamps, the Distress paints & the Clearly for Art.  I used the metallic distress stains, a Mini Blueprint stamp, acetate & PaperArtsy’s Fresco paints instead.

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I had bought a few door hangers from the MDF Man when I went to Ally Pally a few weeks ago & I decided to use one of them instead of a tag.  Here it is.

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This is hanger after I painted it with the Frescos, (Pesto, Sage, Mermaid, Beach Hut, Claret, Brown Shed) & added the metallic distress stains & then blended the distress inks, (Wild Honey, Faded Jeans, Vintage Photo), on top.

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The distress stains were ok, but the metallic distress paints would have given a much better effect, so, yes, you’ve guessed it; I NEED them.  I need the CFA too.  I manage to curve the acetate slightly before I glued it to the bulb, but it’s not as effective as the CFA would be.

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Because the light bulb image is small, I added some extra stamping, using assorted TH stamps & changed the layout slightly too.  I also added Treasure Gold (Brass, Spanish Topaz, Aquamarine), to the metal embellishments.

That’s it for today, thanks for looking.  Until next time,

Love & light

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12 Tags of 2013 February

Hello!  Hope this cold, wet Monday night finds you all well.  It’s been a while.  I’m busy working on projects for Lisa B Designs, none of which I can share for quite a while, but I wanted to make a tag for Tim Holtz’ 12 Tags of 2013.

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Here’s Tim’s tag, isn’t it gorgeous?  I spent all month trying to come up with a layout  for mine, but in the end I went with a tag & mounted it onto black card.  I don’t have most of what Tim used, so I decided to use my JOFY stamps from PaperArtsy.

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Here’s my tag.  I used Barn Door & Spiced Marmalade distress stains & it is redder than it looks in the photos, but I finished it a while ago & had to photograph it under the lights in the kitchen.

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I used purple, green & yellow shades of watercolour pens to colour the flowers.

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I do have Tim’s Chit-chat stickers, so used them with a facet attached to the bakers’ twine with jump rings.

Thank you so much to everyone who visits my blog & leaves comments, I appreciate you all.  I hope to be back soon.  Until then,

Love & light.

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12 Tags of 2013

Hello, hope you’ve all had a great Monday.  I can’t believe it’s the end of the first week of January already, the days have flown by.

I’d like to show you my take on Sir Tim’s January tag.  Like the rest of us who took part in the 12 Tags of 2012, I’m so pleased Tim decided to continue this year, especially as he already has a more than hectic schedule.  And very importantly, today is his birthday & he’s spending it at Disneyland in California, so…..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TIM!!!!!!

If you haven’t heard by now – where have you been?? :) – Tim has been previewing his new CHA releases on his BLOG since last week.  There are some amazing new goodies coming our way, but today was the icing on the cake.  Why?  Two words……  DISTRESS PAINT!!!  It looks terrific & the two burlap canvases Tim made with the paints are gorgeous.  Click on the link & prepare to be wowed.

Below is the photo, from his blog, of Tim’s tag & you can see the other pictures & all the details HERE.

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While I didn’t make any New Year’s resolutions, I am going to try to challenge myself more this year & I’ve decided that instead of tags all the time, I will use Tim’s techniques on other things, such as canvases, wooden substrates, etc.

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I tried to use as many of Tim’s products as possible, but the gears are Donna Salazar dies for Spellbinders, the ticket is a Kanban stamp & the quote is from Chocolate Baroque’s Artistic Affirmations set.

I also followed all the techniques Tim used, with the addition of a little Spanish Topaz Treasure Gold from PaperArtsy, some extra cogs & screw brads & a slight spritz of Biscotti Perfect Pearls mist.

I love how the stamping looks on the seam binding & it was a happy accident that I had a scrap of mountboard in my stash, that matches the Weathered Wood distress stain on the seam binding almost perfectly.

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Here is the finished piece, a little hanging that will go on the wall  in my craft room. where I hope it will be joined by lots of other pieces throughout the year.  Apologies for the rubbish photos, it was dark when I’d finished.

Thank you for looking & for all the lovely comments & encouragement.  Until next time,

Love & light

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Twelve Tags of 2012…. December

Hello blog visitors, it’s a cold, wet Thursday night & I’m typing this while wrapped in a blanket, watching the Royal Institute Christmas lecture on BBC2.

The end of December is rapidly approaching so I wanted to show you the two tags I made following Lord Tim’s instructions in his 12 Tags of 2012 series.  You can see Tim’s tags HERE.

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Here are mine & once again, not having most of the items Tim used, I improvised.  I loved using the metallic distress stains, there’s a lovely sheen to these tags in RL.

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The little snowman is a Kanban stamp, as is the owl & the metal flower is from a set my mum gave me some years ago – I use them very sparingly.

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I made my own journal ticket from kraft card & stamped the sentiment onto a scrap of  green core’dinations.  I do have a little of Tim’s printed tissue paper, but not the gorgeous poinsettia die, so I used a Crealies die instead.  The flourish is from a Marianne Creatables die.

I have thoroughly enjoyed making these tags throughout the year & I hope Tim’s hectic schedule allows him to continue in 2013.

Thanks for looking.  I hope that, after the Christmas busyness, you are having a relaxing few days.  Until next time,

Love & light.

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Chocolate Baroque Tag Swap Rainbow

Happy Monday, blog visitors, I hope you had a great weekend.  I would like to show you my R tag for the year long Chocolate Baroque alphabet tag swap.

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Unusually, I knew before I started what I wanted to do.  The tag below is the result & I did not like it at all.  Too much embossing, the blocks of colour were wrong & the clouds had virtually disappeared.

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Then the Muse blessed me with inspiration.  I put ‘Stream’ Adirondack ink on the stencil, put a tag on top & rolled a brayer over it to transfer the ink from the stencil to the tag.

The next step was to blend Distress inks over the clouds.  I used:

  • Festive Berries
  • Squeezed Lemonade
  • Mowed Lawn
  • Salty Ocean
  • Seedless Preserves

To make raindrops I debossed the tag with a Dots Trio (Cuttlebug?) embossing folder & filled the spaces with Glossy Accents & a slight sprinkling of glitter.

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The balloon & the boot are from Chocolate Baroque’s Steampunk Travel A5 set.  I coloured the balloon with watercolour pens, then added Crackle Accents.  When it dried some of the cracks were too big, so I filled the gaps with Glossy Accents.

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I stamped the boot onto white card with Versamark, added silver EP & heat set, then I cut it out.  The boot was coloured with Festive Berries DI & the wings with Squeezed Lemonade – I stamped them again, cut them out & attached them to the boot with red brads.

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I found the quote online & stamped it with a Hampton Art mini alphabet set on a scrap of card I had sprayed with Dylusions.

Thank you for looking.  Until next time,

Love & light

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Star Light, Star Bright

Evening peeps, happy Wednesday to you. I hope your week is excellent so far. I think I have recovered from the art workshop at the weekend. It was very intensive, very enjoyable & I was so exhausted when I got home on Sunday night that I slept for about thirteen hours. Not much was accomplished on Monday, that’s for sure. Yesterday & today I managed to make two tags & start another project.

I’m taking a break from Christmas tags & cards today to show you a tag I made for Hels Sheridan’s Sunday Stamper weekly challenge. The theme this week is ‘Lucky Star’. Strangely for me, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.


The first thing I did was prepare the background:

  • Blend Stormy Sky & Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks
  • Spritz with water, leave for a few minutes, dry with heat tool
  • Randomly stamp star trails, from Inkadinkado’s Beautiful Fairies set, with black Archival ink
  • Swipe entire tag with Picket Fence distress stain, to tone down the black & complete the blended effect
  • Randomly stamp large star stamp, freebie from Craft Stamper magazine, with Versamark
  • Brush entire surface with Perfect Pearl’s perfect pearl powder. Spritz with water to set, leave for a few moments, dry with heat tool


I must say here, I have joined the Picket Fence fanclub. Distress Stains are at the top of my crafting wishlist, (closely followed by PaperArtsy’s Fresco Finish paints), but because I’m trying to save the pennies, I decided to start with Picket Fence & I love it. I forgot to take a photo of the tag before I added the stain so you could see the difference, but so many of us are using it it should be very easy to find examples. Try Hels’ blog, she uses it a LOT.

My next step was to use my Dymo label maker to print out the quotation. I played around with the pieces & the silver stars from my stash until I was happy with the placement. I stuck the stars down with matte medium & edged them with a Signo white pen.


The large stars were stamped on to the reverse of blue mirri card & cut out. I used some Broken China stickles for a little bit of bling & attached them with foam pads. The final additions were the TH ‘wish’ ticket, which I inked with Stormy Sky DI & added to the tag with a TH memo pin, some blue ribbon & the star brad. And that, as they say, was that.

I am ending this post with a Very Important Announcement. Tomorrow is December 1 & that means it is time once again for the Duke of Distress, Lord Tim of Holtz, to commence his 12 TAGS OF CHRISTMAS. This is the time of year those of us who admire, nay, ADORE Sir Tim & all his creative genius wait for. We never know what he is going to spring on us & we are always delighted, excited & in awe. This year I am determined to take part & I have a large bundle of tags waiting to be inked, torn, stamped, embossed & embellished. If you would like to join in the fun, go here, to Tim’s blog, for all the info – you MUST watch the video he & Mario made, (Mario is Tim’s righthand man & responsible for all the behind-the-scenes pics & info), it’s BRILLIANT!! I know some of us are planning on staying up all night tonight, so they can see the first tag as soon as Tim posts it. I haven’t quite decided if I shall do the same thing…….. :)

So, until next time – tomorrow that is – stay safe & warm & keep crafting.

Love & light.Link