Heart tag

The Crazy Amigo site has Tim Holtz as their theme for this week, so here is my tag using various products and techniques promoted by him.
For the background I placed drops of alcohol inks and blending solution on a craft mat, and smooshed a piece of glossy card over the top. Note to self - the silver mixative is difficult to stamp over!
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Stamps: Tim Holtz Take Flight

Inks: Alcohol Inks Stream, Stonewashed, Butterscotch and Silver Mixative; Archival Black; Versamark Pen; Distress Crackle paint Brushed Pewter

Extras: Washer; Silver Ribbon; Mini Grungeboard heart; Detail Silver EP

Gears

Perhaps for this Tim Holtz inspired tag I should have spelt the word 'gearz' but felt that the intended recipient wouldn't understand 'Tim' jargon so spelt it correctly! This is my contribution for the Saturday Workshop challenge on sprays - on which I've used homemade glimmer mists.

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Stamps: ISC All About Me

Inks: DI Broken China, Tea Dye and Walnut Stain; Crackle Paint Broken China; Alcohol Inks Espresso and Gold Mixative; DI Refill Broken China

Extras: Perfect Pearls Gold and Bronze; Washer; Photo Anchor; Blue Brad; Tim Holtz Gears Mask, Grungeboard Mini Letters and Sprocket Gear; Fimo Buttons from SammieJay; Sheer Ribbon

When they saw the star...

The created byHand challenge is to make a Christmas tag. Here's my very sparkly one.
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Stamps : Elusive Images Gold Frankincense and Myrrh

Inks: Adirondack Latte and Stream; H2Os in Gold Dust, Autumn Skies and Chestnut Brown; Versamark; DI Tea Dye

Extras: Perfect Pearls Gold; Detail White EP; Grungeboard Star; Copper wire; Sheer Ribbon

Glad Tidings

The Lots to Do challenge this week is to use some kind embossing on your work. To that I added 3 challenges from 2Peas - overlapping flourishes of different colours, using vintage lace with a Christmas theme, and using the work of someone as inspiration. I chose Nancy. Some of the flourishes are gold embossed.

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Stamps: HA Fantastic Flourishes; Elusive Images 3 Wise Men

Inks: Alcohol Inks Cranberry, Lettuce and Pearl Mixative; StazOn Olive Green; Versamark

Extras: Vintage Lace; Detail Gold EP; Image from art-e-cats; pink ribbon and paper; Glossy card; PM Large Eyelet

More from SOF08

Here are a few more items that I contributed to the Stamptoberfest on 2Peas.


1. Listen to the Music
Using the Sparkle challenge, this is also one of a set of 3 fat pages I made for a draw on Lots to Do forum

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Stamps : Darkroom Door Melody and Harmony; HA Fantastic Flourishes
Inks : DI Tattered Rose and Dusty Concord; Archival Black; Refill Milled Lavender
Extras : Perfect Pearls Gold; Pearlescent Black paper


2. Vase of flowers
The 'get inspiration' challenge was to use the following pictures from magazines and adapt them in your cards.

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Stamps: Judikins vase; Tim Holtz Nature's Moments; HA Striped Background

Inks : DI Faded Jeans and Tea Dye; Versamark

Extras : Black and White EP; White rick rack; Prima Flowers; Blue Brad

3. Angelic Joy

This tag was made for a tag and a sparkle challenge, also incorporating pp, stamping and some ribbon

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Stamps : Simple Expressions Christmas 3
Inks : DI Scattered Straw; DI refill Broken China and Mustard Seed (mixed); Archival Black
Extras : BG Alpha stickers and pp; Paper Cellar Ribbon bows; Silver Brads; PM Large eyelet; red paper


4. Holly tag
Made for a cuttlebug challenge. I sanded down the diamonds.
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Stamps : Paper Artsy xmas 1
Inks : H20s in Olive Vine, Irish Mist and Spiced Pumpkin; Archival Black
Extras : R&L RubOns; Glitter rick rack; PM large eyelet

Stamptoberfest 2008

This festival of stamping is being held on 2Peas for the next week, with lots of challenges. Here are 3 items that I've made so far:

Vintage Lace Christmas card

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Stamps : Paper Artsy xmas 1

Inks : DI Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain and Broken China

Extras : image from chicks57; vintage lace and buttons; pink card; Joanna Sheen lace paper; pink pearlescent paper

Christmas tag

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Stamps: Simple Expressions 3; Paper Artsy xmas 1

Inks : Adirondack Colorwash spray (diluted) Wild Plum; DI refill Antique linen, and Black Soot ink; Archival Black

Extras : Fibres; Sheer Ribbon; Prima Flower; Green Brad; PM Large Eyelet; Perfect Pearls Gold

Pea-inspired

I 'cased' a card by Jacqueline, although she'll probably be horrified at my vivid colours! You can see her original on this 2Peas post through the link on the right.

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Stamps : HA Fanciful Flourishes; Crafty Individuals 21

Inks : Alcohol Inks Wild Plum, Cranberry, Butterscotch and Pearl Mixative; Archival Black;Versamark

Extras : Detail Gold EP; image from chicks57; Glossy card; Spin and Splash toy

You light up my life

Transfers is the technique required for the Saturday Workout challenge. I recently watched a youtube video by Claudine Hellmuth showing how to transfer images onto a tag. Sorry, I don't know the link offhand. This is the method:

1) Use a brush to paint dabbers liberally onto the tag and press the printed image onto the wet paint, face down. Leave to dry completely, about 20 mins.
2) Mist the image with water and very gently rub all the paper off with your fingers.

I really liked the ghostly, night-time appearance of the image, and it was quite by chance that I had used dark coloured paint. Then I stamped the flourishes with versamark and dry brushed on some perfect pearls. To fix them I pushed the boat out, and at vast expense used .....hairspray! The funny thing was that I had added the fibres before spraying, and pushed them up out of the way. The hairspray fixed them upright - talk about a bad hair day! lol. ---

Stamps : Crafty Individuals 173; Paper Artsy Arched Apertures 2

Inks : Adirondack Dabbers Cloudy Blue, Purple Twilight and Eggplant; Archival Black; Adirondack Eggplant; Versamark; Brilliance Moonlight White

Extras : Image from The Lady's Closet; Hairspray; Shipping Tag; Fibres; Perfect Pearls 'Pearl'

Strength in numbers

The Created byHand challenge is to make a tag. My daughter Catherine has been receiving extra maths tuition all year from a girl at my school who has been offered a place to study maths at Cambridge in September. I will make this up into a card for her to say thankyou, and good luck.
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Stamps : Paper Artsy Mini 23 and At Home 3; Invoke Arts backgrounds

Inks : Adirondack dabbers Lemonade and Shell Pink; DI Dusty Concord, Antique Linen and Weathered Wood

Extras : Skeleton Leaf; Magic Mesh; Elusive Images tag; wired tags - free gift from a magazine; fibres from my collection