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 :)

Fabric Tag Book

The current swap challenge on the Art 'n' Soul Flickr group is to make a tag book.  Any shape and any medium, but the theme is 'beautiful buttons'.

I chose to use fabric for my book which consists of four pages.

I cut the tag shapes with a Sizzix Bigz die 'Tag, Super Scallop Crescent' using various fabric scraps.

Each tag page is a sandwich of fabric, light wadding, brown paper and more fabric.  I embellished the pages with various buttons, lace and ribbons.

Here are all the pages

Try as I might, I just cannot get the photos to appear side by side (I managed it with the first two - don't know how!)

The challenge runs until 30th January, so I'm nice and early!

Meet Goth Moth!

Another button fairy! This one is the sister to 'Yellow Wings' - see below. Her wings are made from card with some stuck on machine knitting (a scrap from my Mum!). Her face has been moulded from air dried clay then painted and inked. She wasn't going to be a 'goth' originally, but I sprayed on the gloss finish a little too early and all her make up smudged - doh! Don't you just hate it when that happens. So a goth she is, still I'm sure until they both fly to their new homes, 'Yellow Wings' will keep her in order - lol.

Button Fairy

Meet 'Yellow Wings' she is a button fairy and my entry for this month's challenge on MAMMA's Monthly Art Doll (MAD) swap. MAMMA (Margaret) has a tutorial on her blog showing how to make a fairy.

My fairy has an air dried moulded clay face which I painted and made up. She has pink fibres for her hair, buttons for her body of course, and her wings are card with some bobbly cotton yarn glued onto. She can hang up by means of a beaded hoop.

I like this little fairy and she will be hard to part with, but at least I know I'll be receiving in return a wonderful creation as everyone's work on the group is fab!