Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2014 - January

I've been thinking of playing along with Tim Holtz

12 tags of 2014 and have finally got my 

act together - just in the nick of time for January.

If you click on the picture above it should

take you to Tim Holtz blog where you can see

in detail exactly how Tim made his tag pictured above.

Of course, I didn't have all of the supplies he used,

but I am pleased with how my tag turned out.

 Originality was never my strong point - and my tag

 is based very closely on Tims.

I didn't have the pocket watch die so made my own

and I used a different embossing folder.

 So happy with this!

  I mounted the tag on a card, creating a simple

background based on the tag.

That's hubby's birthday card sorted.

I'd better put it somewhere safe though as his

birthday isn't until October! 

Looking forward to seeing what Tim comes up with

for February now!

Thanks for looking :) 

Traffic Lights Swap

This is the second of two swaps Sian is currently hosting. We had to make three ATCs, one in each of the colours of traffic lights (red, amber and green) and each ATC also had to have on it some wire, some metal (in addition to the wire)and some plastic. How does she come up with these ideas!!!

The bases of each of my three ATCs were covered with some bright silver sticky tape which I then embossed (each in a different way) and then coloured with alcohol inks. The red and green wasn't a problem, but for the amber I used the Caramel ink and then went over with some amber metallic rub ons. The red and amber both have faces moulded from friendly plastic. This is the first time I'd used the plastic in a mould - I'm sure it should be easy but I think I need a bit more practice. The green one has a plastic button in the centre. The metal on each of them is - for red, the head-dress, for amber an old bottletop (the head is mounted in) and for green it is the metal corner pieces. The wire is for red, interlinked with the head-dress, for amber, the stem and leaves and for green it is attaching the button to the ATC.

Despite the gruesome looking face, I think my favourite of the three is the amber one. The petals are pieces of amber coloured acrylic mosaic. None of them have photographed very well unfortunately (well, I would say that wouldn't I!!)

Home Sweet Home

This week's theme on Maggies Monday Musings is 'Home Sweet Home' and here's my offering. I used a PaperArtsy mini stamp and some aluminium to emboss it into. The background is some scrapbook paper and the tree is another rubber stamped image. MAMMA gave me an award for this one (wooohoooo!!!), that's the second one in two weeks - so I must be doing something right! All down hill from now on then:( lol

All the other entries for this week's swap may be found in the Flickr group - the link is on the Maggies Monday Musings blog (link above).