12 Tags of 2015 - February

 

A click on the photo above (copied from Tim Holtz blog)

should take you to the post describing how he made it.

He said

"the month of february is all about about the things we love, so what better theme for the tag than my simple love of making things. check out this easy way to layer your favorite ephemera to create this patchwork inspired collage – have fun…t!m"

 I decided to make my tag based on my love of

vintage sewing stuff.

 

 My ephemera includes pieces from old 

dressmaking patterns, a button card and

an embroidery skein label.

  I didn't have the 'glue n seal' so instead

used Liquitex Matte Medium and Paper Mod Podge.

 

Instead of a felt heart and metal heart and arrow,

I used an old leather tag and a metal scissors charm. 

Instead of metal corners at the bottom, I used

some staples from my Tiny Attacher to

look like stitches.

 

 I don't think my black lines edging each piece of

ephemera work very well even though I did use a

Distress Marker.  This may have been due to not

using the 'Glue n Seal' product?

I still like the finished tag anyway :)

Thank you for looking.

 

Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2014 - March

 Tim's tag for March is above -

click on the picture to go to his blog and

see in detail how he did it.

Here's the tag I created.

 

As I didn't have any of the stamps Tim used, 

instead of a Spring theme, I chose sewing.

(The stamps are from PaperArtsy - HP1216 and

Creative Expressions - Vintage Sewing)

This month it was about getting smudgy with

the stamping - something I usually avoid at all costs!

The effect was very subtle though and just

created a softening around the edges. 

I must admit I had to discard my first attempt

at a tag as I made a mess of spritzing

technique with the distress markers.

I bought the little tool but found it quite

hard to get working - and when I did, found

that the stencil I used didn't give a nice effect.

When I tried again on this tag, I still wasn't

happy but luckily could cover it with some of

the tissue tape as shown below. 

The colours of Distress Ink I used were

Seedless Preserve, Peeled Paint,

Frayed Burlap, Pumice Stone and Black Soot.

I didn't intend the Seedles Preserve (purple) to

be quite a dominant as it turned out to be -

I was a bit heavy handed with the blending tool!

 

I didn't have any of Tim's new coloured jute string,

but did have some garden string in just the right

colour for my tag.

So, it didn't go completely to plan, but I like it!

Looking forward to next month's tag already!

Thanks for looking :)