May 12 Tags of 2013

Good grief! Another month gone. This work gig is seriously cutting into my creative time!!

I actually made this tag the first week of the month and took pics and sent it off to my Favorite Youngest Nephew and now I don't remember what-all I did to it!

You can see Tim's instructions and his tag here. I used Brett Weldele's collaboration with Tim's stamp set, Time Traveller and Tim's new rub-on's as well as his new Distress Paints. There is also some White Signo Uniball highlighting.

12 tags of 2013 April

Has it really been almost a month since I blogged?! Sheesh. You'd think a girl had gone back to work or somethng! Amazing how quickly the time gets away from me now. But I am loving being back in the workforce. Love having a reason to get up and get moving in the mornings. And as an added bonus, I had my 6 months Primary Doctor check at the end of last week. Since I started working in October, I've lost 22 lbs! It's that getting up and moving around and being active again. Not sitting here at my computer or at my scrap table all day and grabbing a cookie every time I'd walk thru the kitchen! And I wasn't trying to consciously lost any weight because when I say I'm gonna lose weight, I gain weight! I knew my work clothes that I bought when I started at Whole Foods  Market were feeling loose on me, but not 22 pounds worth!

Anyway! You didn't come here to hear me blather on! You came to see some art!

Tim's got a fantastic blog post using his new Metallic Distress paints to make a tag look like patina'd metal. I made a quick trip to Whim So Doodle last week to get these fabulous new Metallics. If you've still not tried Tim's new Distress Paints, I don't know what you are waiting for! Their fluidity (is that even a word?!) and how they blend and mix when you spray them with water and how once they are dry, you can add other layers on top and wet them and the initial Paint layer will not re-wet and move. Just amazing stuff!

I pretty much stuck to Tim's how-to on applying the paint to my tag and embellishments. I don't have the Clearly For Art plastic, so I just used some regular plastic packaging and it pretty much did the same as the Clearly For Art did. I used his little boy with wings stamp instead of the butterfly Tim used and did the wings in the plastic. There's also a Christy Tomlinson rub-on doily on my tag. And you can see where part of the doily didn't adhere to the tag as I was rubbing it on. Oh well! It's a unique doily!!

12 Tags of 2013-March

Figured I'd best get my entry done for Tim's 12 tags of 2013-March before I ran out of month! As I said to sister Jan the other day, March is marching right along!

Of course I don't have all of his cool new toyz that were released at Winter CHA, so I improvised. I decided on a more Spring-like tag instead of an Easter-ish one. I used my Cricut and cut out the smaller tag and bird. Then used Tim's technique as shown on his blog to do the Tinsel Twine. I used some 7Gypsies tissue paper to cover my Ranger #10 tag. I used some CTMH ribbon and cut it to make my "grass" and the stems of my flowers are also CTMH ribbon. The large flower in the upper right corner was one I had left over from Tim's Tattered Floral challenge and since items in groups of threes is supposed to be more pleasing to the eye, I decided I'd use it as well.

Tim's Tattered Floral challenge

Tim offered up a challenge the end of February. And I've mulled over what I was gonna do. Changed my mind eleventy billion times. Been inspired by each and every guest designer/crafty friend of his that he's asked to create something. Hemmed and hawed about what I was gonna do. Then it hit me! I ordered a pair of shoes online and they came with these inserts to keep them from crushing in shipment. Of course I saved them. Of course I did! Not knowing what I would do with them or how long they'd hang around before I either used them or tossed them. And one day I decided, I shall cover them in Tim's tattered flowers! I sprayed the insert using Dyan's Black Marble Spray Ink then oversprayed with Ranger Turquiose Perfect Pearls Mist. I love the look of the black with Turquoise! Then I went to town cutting out flowers. I used some of Tim's Crowded Attic Paper Stash, GrungePaper and GrungeBoard, Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky Back Canvas and old dictionary pages. Then I colored them using Dylusions Ink Sprays, Distress Stains, Distress Inks, Distress Paints, Ranger Paint Dabbers. Basically anything I owned that could make color, I used! Then I used my Kraft Pick on the Sticky Back canvas and tattered the edges tattered florals! I also used Distress Inks on some of the outside edges of the flowers. Once everything was dry, I mixed up all the flowers and put things together. Then I started attaching them to the toe insert using some flower brads that I've had in my hoard stash for.ever.  If you get a chance, you really should head to Tim's blog and see some of the fantasmic creations people have done. It's truly inspiring.

Winner, winner!

Remember a couple of weeks ago, Ranger had a contest and I entered? With these tags. Well imagine my surprise when I found out I was one of three lucky winners! And my winnings came today!

Here's what I won:

 Top row, left to right: Perfect Pearls Mist Pink Gumball, Distress Stain Picket Fence, Dylusions Spray Ink Funky Fuschia, Ranger Archival Ink Deep Purple. Middle row, left to right: Perfect Pearls Grape, Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylic Paint Purple Palette, Stickles Dry Glitter Magenta. Bottom row, left to right: Distress Paint Victorian Velvet, Liquid Pearls Silver Pearl, Stickles Cotton Candy and Distress Ink Picked Raspberry.

A very nice prize indeed! Thanks again to Ranger. Love your products and this is like icing on the cake for me!!

Silhouette Mermaids

Don't fall over from shock! Two posts in the same week from me is hard to believe lately.

I got all 6 of Dyan's new Spray Inks and her new Ocean Backgrounds and Under The Sea stamp sets last month when Whim So Doodle got them in. And when I was there last month for Dina's class, I got HER silhouette masks. I combined the two since Dina and Dyan love each other so much and played in my Dyan Journal. I love the vibrancy of Dyan's new inks. So lush! The White Linen ink is how I achieved the look on the silhouettes. And the stamps are pretty fun to play with as well. I decided to turn the silhouette lady with legs into a mermaid! There's also lots of Signo Uniball White pen work around all of the sea creatures and stencils.

Ranger Contest

There is a Contest going on thru the 25th over on the Ranger blog. And of course I had to try my hand at it! The challenge is to use Ranger products in Valentines Day colors. And while my tags aren't Valentines, I do have a couple of co-workers having birthdays this month so I used the colors and opportunity to make a birthday tag for each of them.

I started with Tim's new Distress Paints in Fired Brick and Spun Sugar on the tag and misted pretty heavily with water to get the paints to move around. Then I dried the tags and used one of Dina's stencils with Picket Fence Distress Paint and one of Dyan's stencils with Barn Door Distress Stain. Added a bit of black to the tag with a spray ink top smooshed into some of Dyan's Black Marble Spray Ink. I then used one of Tim's new Mini Blueprint Stamps  on watercolor paper and used my Distress Markers to color everything but the flame and that is Stickles for that bit of bling! I used Fired Brick and Black Soot Distress Paints to paint the numbers with and left a bit of the silver showing on each. The 17 and 26 are the dates of the two girls birthdays. I used Tim's idea for using a piece of Tissue Tape folded in half and crumpled to make my "ribbon" with.