Tim's May tag

Sorry it's been quiet on here recently! My excuse? Why, I have been away again...a trip to the west country, Devon to be precise.

And so it is a new month & a new tag from Tim. As is so often the case, I had hardly any of the necessary ingredients so I have been up to my usual improvising tricks.

My tag has no rub-ons, instead I stamped in archival and then used an embossing ink pen to go over/around the images & added clear embossing powder. This was to try and give me the "white edge" look. Amazingly enough the pen still worked despite having sat unloved for about 4 years!

I have swiped the card though Distress inks (weathered wood, salty ocean, broken china, fired brick,peeled paint) the edge has then been further coloured with a little more Peeled Paint.
I then did some more stamping in Archival black: TH Top Hats, crown, flourish & words are from the "love" definition. The black stars are from a set of Hero Arts tiny stars, the graph & the cog are from Paper Artsy Hot Picks Xtra 01, the butterfly image is a Clear Choice Stamps mini set- the diamond pattern is from Stampers Anonymous & the G,2,13 & May are random stamps from my stash. I have used a film strip stamp from Hobbycraft to make the film strip on the left hand side.

The ribbon has been coloured with the leftover inks, the round tag at the side has got Chit-Chat stickers added & slightly coloured with antique linen DI, I have added a word band to finish it off.


I then decided to have a go at using some rub-ons that have been lurking in a drawer for quite a few years, I think I bought them the first or second year that we started going over to the USA to visit the grandchildren - Emily has just celebrated her 10th birthday and we first saw her aged 6 months!!!

So I have used the same colours and most of the same stamps plus I have used some rub-ons: braces, pen, spectacles & half a briefcase (it was quite large) the metal edged circular tag has been coloured with alcohol inks & the Chit Chat lightly coloured with Weathered Wood DI.
This is going to find its way onto a birthday card shortly!

I am posting the backgrounds that I made before I started over stamping as well as the finished items.

Hope you like the results.

August tag time with Tim Holtz

This month was always going to be a challenge as I don't have any cameo style stamps so I have had to have a real rummage through my stamps to see what I could find to use and here is what I have come up with:

I've used a white tag that has had the bottom cut off using a "labels" die and then run it through a "button" embossing folder, the raised parts & edges have been coloured using DI Shaded Lilac.
The main stamp is from Paper Artsy (buttons 2 plate) as are the words that I used, they are stamped in black onto white card. The scissors are a stamp that I bought in Hobbycraft recently for £1!

I coloured a piece of lace & a paper flower with Shaded Lilac to use, added some silk flowers, buttons, a small lace bow and added some 'foliage' that I cut using my Sissix Festive Greenery die.

The words & the scissors have been raised using foam pads.

Hope you like it :-)


PS
the next challenge is going to see if Blogger will post today as I had no luck yesterday on the 6 times that I tried to post :-(