Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2014 - June

 

 Tim's tag for June is above -

If you want to see how he made it,

click on the picture to go to his blog.

 

..... and here's my version

 The idea this month was to create a look of

blended watercolour with a stencil and

distress inks.

 The background was first made on watercolour paper

then stuck onto a manilla tag.

I didn't have the stamp set Tim used but

found this butterfly one in my stash - 

from PaperArtsy (Ancestors - Plate 1).

(The words are from one of Tim's

Stampers Anonymous)

The ribbon for the bow was supposed to be

multi coloured as I did use all four of the

distress inks but the Peeled Paint green

colour seems to have won the day!

I used a couple of pink buttons instead of the

tiny gears and spinner Tim used.

Only a couple days wait until next

month's Tim tag, hopefully, I won't leave that one as late.

Thanks for looking :)

Hearts and Flowers

Margaret has created another spin off Flickr site called LOL MAMMA Valentine Swap (LOL for 'Lots of Love') She has provided a link for a heart template to download and decorate. All of the hearts entered will be swapped by random generator on 5 February.

For my heart I printed off the template onto card then covered it with 'Plaster Cloth' This is quite messy to use and takes a while to dry but you can create a lot of texture with it and it's fun too. Once it had finally dried, I painted over the whole lot with some acrylic paint in two shades of pink. I wrapped some small pearl beads around the heart then embellished it further with some paper flowers, more pearls and some little gems. I attached a ribbon hanger and suspended two little pink hearts from the centre which are hanging on a jump ring covered with more of the ribbon.

Whilst making this I was reminded of a little pink plaque I bought from Ebay a while ago which says "What makes you think I like pink" - very apt for this I think!!!