I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge for this week's "Tag" theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
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I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge for this week's "Tag" theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Posting another Christmas tag today, this one inspired by a lovely make from Emma Williams (see it here).
The background is a scrapbook page, the wreath was hand-cut from cardboard then heat-embossed with metallic powders and trimmed with Stickles.
I used vellum inside the frame that was lightly distressed with inks on the backside and stamped with heat-embossed text. The scroll is a Remnant Rub.
The holly was die-cut from watercolor paper using a Tim Holtz set called Mixed Media Christmas. After tinting with inks, I used a clear medium and Rock Candy dry glitter to give it some sparkle. The berries were made dimensional with Glossy Accents.
The border was machine-stitched, darkened a bit with distress ink and embellished with more Stickles.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I'm linking up for Simon's "Emboss It" challenge.
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Who could not be moved by the most honorable life of Queen Elizabeth II? With respect to her passing, Simon's prompt this week is "Sparkle and Shine" and she certainly was all that and so much more.
"May flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I began with scrapbook paper for the background that's black with printed glittered bees evenly distributed throughout the page.
Then I heat embossed it with the stamped image (Simon's Floral Garden) and painted the inside of the flowers and leaves white. It was easy to scrape paint off the embossing if I went outside the lines by gently using my X-Acto knife.
I tinted the flowers and darkened some of the wings with Pitt Artist Brush Pens.
The text is a Tim Holtz Chipboard Quote peeled away from the chip board so it would lay flat against the tag and embellished with a line of gold Stickles.
I'm linking up with Simon's Wild and Wonderful challenge.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Sharing a tag made for the Whatever the Weather challenge at Simon that features the Sideshow stamp by Tim Holtz along with a vintage map stamp by Inkadinkado.
I created a stamp resist with clear embossing powder over an already collaged and tinted background. Then I painted over the entire tag with black paint that was wiped off the embossing when it was almost dry.
Because the original surface was sealed with acrylic, I was able to scrap off the embossing then add color to areas like the map and rain drops with permanent ink.
I did a bit of sanding and scraped in the text which references this quote from the bible:
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Prompted by Simon's "Artist Trading Card" challenge, may I present this trio made with an image transfer on kraft card stock using the sample ad for the Tim Holtz "Groups" Found Relatives as the background.
The next layer is white heat-embossed stamping (Tim Holtz Mail Art stamp set) along with some Tim Holtz Photobooth pics.
My stock of colored embossing powders is limited so I used permanent inks to tint/tone-down some of the stark white and also used a few strips of Tim Holtz Design Tapes. I painted on the white border.
I don't make many trading cards but if you'd like to see a few more, here's a link.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Making Christmas tags by following along with Tim Holtz blog posts way back when was such great fun and I've continued to embrace the tag format ever since.
Nowdays, I use my holiday tags to decorate gifts and today I'm sharing the first one of, hopefully, twelve for this year. (See previous seasons here).
I punched postage-stamp shapes from a heat-embossed stamped image (Penny Black Tree of Holly) and pasted rows of them to create a background.
The poinsettia was stamped (Penny Black Christmas Star), tinted with Distress inks, cut-out and mounted to the surface. I added some fine, black lines for detail and used gold Stickles to trim the flower edges along with my last bottle of Rock Candy Distress Stickles (an absolute favorite product, sadly discontinued).
I stamped then fussy-cut the text (Penny Black Festive Season) and trimmed the tag with Nuvo Glitter Drops, sketchy pen ink and a ribbon topper.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.I stamped on book paper, tinted with colored pencils and Distress inks, and placed the image behind an oval cut from scrapbook paper (also distressed). I machine-stitched the borders, darkened the edges for accent, added crystal drops from Nuvo and heat-embossed the text.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.I've used a Found Relative (Tim Holtz) to feature in this tag. Was Halloween just around the corner since this little tyke is wearing what appears to be a uniform jacket (that's a tad too big)?
The flowers were drawn by Alphonse Mucha (clipped from one of his posters) and I also used a torn bit of book paper tinted with inks and embossed with polka dots.
All the collage elements were placed on top of an oversized image of an old envelope that was found in a book on philately.
As I've mentioned before, I find the best way to tint the "relatives" is to use Pitt Artist Brush pens.I'm linking to Simon's Monday challenge since Halloween is the theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.A head start on Christmas cards? Maybe. But a call to create with "glimmer and sparkle" at the Simon Monday challenge was really the push for making this one. What's Christmas without some shiny bits--am I right?
I used Pink ombré paper (Martha Stewart) covered with Tissue Wrap (Holtz) trimmed to fit around Poinsetta Pieces die-cuts (Holtz) that were cut from a bronze metallic envelope.
Copper Liquid Pearls, some Stickles, and white Scribbles provided the glitz. I heat embossed the white text and outlined one side of the letters with an extra-fine black marker to create a 3D effect.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.Gitter gone wild is the name of this post for obvious reasons--I used it to embellish this birthday card for my niece. (If you click on the photo to view it in the light box feature you'll see the glitter in more detail.)
I began by stamping (Simon's Delicate Flowers and a Martha Stewart butterfly) on watercolor paper with clear embossing ink and UTEE. Remember this stuff? UTEE stands for ultra thick embossing powder and I guess it fell out of favor because I seldom see anyone using it anymore.
After applying watercolors for tint, I ironed off the embossing. When you do, the weight of the iron spreads the embossing out and you end up with slightly thicker lines that also act as a resist. If you'd like to know more about this technique here's a link to a popular post for the particulars.
I thought I needed more contrast so I outlined the images with a fine-tip black marker. Still not happy, I dug out my glitter (Stickles) and the extra color and sparkle seemed to do the trick.
I used a stencil (Simon's Tiny Dots) with white texture paste, a Simon die-cut for the sentiment and machine-stitched it to the card base using white thread.
Simon Says use heat embossing this week so I'm linking up to the Monday challenge.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.Happy Valentine's Day! I hope everyone gets a giant box of chocolates, a big bouquet of flowers plus a big fat hug from someone you love.
I'm sharing a card made for the occasion (and my dear friend, Thelma) that started with a prompt from Simon's Monday challenge to use a "resist technique."
A heart stencil was clear embossed over a scrap of Paper Stash and covered with off-white paint that was wiped off the raised embossing before it dried. Then I ironed-off the embossing (here's a link to the technique) which gives it a mottled appearance I rather like.
I cut the heart out and pasted it on more Paper Stash, added a stamped strip of polka dots, a Paper Doll figure, book text, and fussy-cut butterflies.
I admit an obsession with 3D paint dots and used them to embellish the borders. I may need to seek treatment for this disorder ☺.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.