Tim's November Tag Take 2

Hello again!  

My Friend Lesley and I are having a Crafting Day next week (on a school day too!) and, having seen a few projects that I have done recently, Lesley has asked me if I would show her on Friday how to do the resist technique as she is not sure how to go about it.    

Well I was sitting in my room the other evening, there were a few inks on my desk, and a tag and one thing led to another.......Who could "resist" the lure of new stamps ey?  So now I have two tags for Tim Holtz's November tag!  

I used my TH tag die and SU vanilla cardstock, the same stamp set as I used for the original stamp set, but as you can see the Tree one.  This time I used some paper tape, lace and ribbon (that ribbon is sooo precious I only use it on special projects!).  Some pins in the ribbon and string at the top and hey presto.

I decided to add just a little texture by adding glossy accents to the baubles.  It is a shame the lighting in the mornings is sooo pants lately as you cannot see the perfect pearls mist on there!

Thanks for calling by.

TTFN

Hettie

Happy Birthday Rachel...Not quite a Tag!

Hello Friends

What a perfectly miserable Monday morning it is weatherwise!  But you know what means......Perfect weather for crafting in!  Well I would do if I was not in work!

It was my very good friend Rachel's birthday last week and just a few weeks ago Rachel was in my Craft Room for, as she puts it, "a darned good nosey"!!  She asked me why I had all the tags around my room?  I told her that some of them are for challenges and by creating artwork on tags, it is also a good way of practising new techniques or ideas without wasting too much paper/time to discover whether you like it or not.  Well one of the tags that caught Rachel's eye was one I made using the embossing powder resist technique so to prove a point, I made a card version of that tag and here it is.....

I also got chance to use my new favourite DI - Seedless Preserves, as well as Rusty Hinge, Dusty Concord, Vintage Photo and Old Paper.

The bluey/purple background card is created using the card that I put in the base of my spraying box when using colourwashes/shimmers.  When I think they look interesting I take them out and refresh with fresh cardstock!  The butterflies and SU tag were also stamped onto Snippets of card coloured in the same way. Immediately behind is a piece of silver mirrored card, again a Snippet left over from a Christmas project no doubt. 

The ribbon was also salvaged from the Snippets boxes which I must have had left over from making one of the other ribbons on that die and the flourish I found in my embellishment tin.  You can see the button I cheated with thread by drawing with another great find......Sharpies White pen.  Brilliant.  Craft Obsessions have them.  The best white pen EVER!

So overall I think I am entitled to link this up with Miss Di's Playground.  Must remember to put the wellies on before I go over there!  

TTFN and thanks for calling by.

Hettie

Creative Chemistry 101 - Day 7

Hello Again Peeps!

I know - TWO posts in one day!  And I haven't done my Scrappy Tuesday posting yet and hopefully I will before I head off to the Land of Nod!

I know I am behind but I have jumped right up to today's lesson so that I don't have soo much catching up to do.  Today is all about embossing powders.  Do join in with the classes over at OnlineCardClasses.  They are full of useful tips and ideas that you cannot always pick up from books!  Here are today's projects....

I must admit that the first tag has to me my favouritist technique and I use it loads and loads.  The middle tag technique I have never been able to get a good result until today!  And the last tag I was a little limited as I only have two colours of Distress Powder because I have not really thought of many situations where I would use it.  Until now!  I want some lighter colours now! 

Hope you like. It is not too late to join in if you fancy trying it! Click HERE to join in.

TTFN

Hettie

Ingredients:  Stamps - Tim Holtz, Hero Arts; Inks - Distress Inks, Spiced Marmalade, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Wild Honey, Aged Mahogany, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, Pumice Stone, Forest Moss, Victorian Velvet, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Dusty Concord, Weathered Wood; Distress Embossing - Peeled Paint

Grungy Monday 30 - Tissue Tag

Hello Again Peeps

I know I said that yesterday's tag would be the last one for the year but I am female so am entitled to change my mind! So there!!  I also hadn't banked on making this tag until tomorrow but as there is a bit of a do tonight I decided that making a tag with a hangover may not be a good idea!!

The Lovely Linda has decreed that this week's Grungy Monday Challenge would be to use Tim's Tissue - either the new tissue paper or tape.  I don't have any of the tissue paper (sob sob!) so have had to use my tape.  In a fitting tribute to the fact that tomorrow is a New Year, I have made a tag for the occasion.....

This week the Challenge is being sponsored by the guys and gals of Simon Says Stamp and if you have not bought from these guys before they are well worth taking a look.  I have had a few orders from Simon and the last order took only a week to get here from USA!!  For the choice of stamps and other goods available, the carriage is worth it!!  One thing I truly love is the fact I can get Tim's stamps on wood (my favourite stamps!!), something you cannot always get in the UK.  In fact the flourish stamp I have used today (and quite frankly most days) came from Simon Says Stamp!

You must also go along to the lovely T!m Holtz's blog.  There you will find works of art and ideas which quite frankly, make your head spin!  Sometimes I come off his blog and don't know what I want to do first.

Here I have tried to show you the sparkle on this tag, something which you may not necessarily see looking head on in the photos.

Here's what I did....

I started the tag by stamping my favourite flourish stamp with clear embossing ink and sprinkling over clear embossing powder and heating with my heat gun.  Then I used my (only) two distress stains of Dusty Concord and Peeled Paint (sympathy aw here please!) and swooshed the inks over the tag.  I dried with the heat gun before spraying Cosmic Shimmer (Graphite) and then heated it to dry again.  Then I ironed the embossing powder off before stamping with Archival Ink in purple with the Crafty Individuals clock stamp.  A little distressing of the edges with the distress tool and Dusty Concord ink and then onto the embellishments. 

Here I made a rosette with the Sizzix die and made it the "T!m" way using a glue gun and tissue tape on the back.  I popped a circle of paper and added Distress Stickles (still wet when I took these photos!) to the middle.  I then used several tissue tapes and a washi tape and made gathered ribbon by attaching to strips of cardstock and ruffling it.  I trimmed the edges so that they had points and then stapled to the tag in various places.

I cut a die of the Reindeer (again Sizzix) and stamped it with a Crafty Individuals stamp and Dusty Concord DI and embossed with clear sparkly embossing powder.  Some black enamel for an eye and edged with DI and adhered using foam dots. 

The 2012 was made using my Quickutz dies and the ribbon was made with the Distress Stains - the reason why I bought them in the first place as I saw how they coloured ribbon beautifully.  A little elephant charm so I don't forget the friends I have made during my first blogging year of 2011  and Hey Presto - my tag is finished. 

I hope you like and don't forget to pop over to Linda's to see some of the other stunning work on show there.

Please do have a wonderful New Year wherever in the world you may be and please BE SAFE!!

See you in 2012 Folks!!

Love and Hugs

Hettie   

Mandy's Birthday Card

Hello there Peeps

I hope it has been a lovely day today wherever in the country you are. It has certainly been a lovely day here in the Brecon Beacons, though not as warm as it was on the weekend.  I even spent a happy few hours in my Craft Room, with my feet up under the desk.  Those Really Useful Boxes certainly do live up to their name!!  LOL!!

I thought I might show you the card which I made for my Buddy Mandy, whose birthday it was on Sunday and who visited me yesterday.  I have her permission to show you her card, though I wanted to make sure she had recieved it before I showed you, in case she saw it on here.

I made this card using the technique which we followed for the Grungy Monday last week.  A technique which I really liked and which will no doubt appear on some more projects in the future.  If you click HERE you will be whisked by Broomstick to my post which links you to the video by Sir Tim Holtz himself where he shows you how it is done. 

Here is what I did to make this card.  First I cut out with my Tattered Florals a set of stamps using funky foam.

I then swooshed some Claudine Hellmuth medium onto my craft sheet and run the stamps through the medium, (after putting them on a block first of course!)  Then I stamped the foam stamps coated with medium onto a piece of patterned K & Co paper and left the medium to dry whilst I cleaned the medium off my stamps and craft mat before it dried on there.  Don't want that now do we? (I only used three flowers, not the diddy one!)

Once the medium had dried on the paper I started to apply DIs to the paper. 

Once I was happy with the colour I splashed some  droplets of water on the paper and left that to dry.    Once dry I took a cloth and rubbed any excess ink off the resist on the paper.  Then I put a mask on the piece of paper and with the Perfict Pearls mist I sprayed to give the card another layer which shines lovely in the changing light. 

I took another piece of plain paper and applied DIs to both sides of that, again splashing droplets of water on it and left that to dry.  This was to make small flowers to decorate the final card and also to stamp the sentiment onto to attach to the front of the card.  

Then I used some navy card to make mounts for the main piece of patterned paper and the sentiment, and after edging the patterned paper with some ink I adhered the patterned paper to the mounts, wrapped ribbon around the larger piece and tied a knot, attached the sentiment using foam pads and then cut out lots of the smallest flowers on the Tattered Florals die.  I inked the edges of these flowers, fluffed 'em to make them look like flowers and attached with glossy accents.  I popped assortes sizes of glittery spots in centre, adhered the remaining three flowers inside and stamped message inside and hey presto!  one happy birthday card.

Hope you like and has given you some ideas for your cards.

Hettie.

Ingredients:
Ranger - DIPeeled paint, weathered wood, faded jeans, mustard seek; glossy accents; sentiment from Natures Moments; ink applicator; cardstock and bazzill;  flower centres QVC; ribbon.