Twelve Tags of 2013

As you all know I am working each month on Tim's Twelve Tags of 2013. I am not doing tags but I am doing a sort of ATC sized card for each month in order to display them in my 7 Gypsies printers tray.

This is what Tim's beautiful tag looks like. Stunning!!

Here is how my finished creation turned out

I used a butterfly stamp instead of the dragonfly because the dragonfly was a bit large for the size I'm doing. I simply took Tim's butterfly stamp from the Papillon set and just used one of the butterflies on it.

I also used this mini blueprint gears from the Mini Blueprint 3 set for the background.

I did the distress paint background the same way Tim did his except I added the color Chipped Sapphire to the mix.

That Distress Metallic is so pretty and shimmery.

Once the background was stamped I used tissue tape. One of the tissue/washi tapes that I chose to use was really white in color so I took some distress stain, Walnut Stain and changed the color to more of a brown, aged look.

I colored the metal for my background the same way Tim did, with distress paint and a finger. 

The sentiment metal piece that Tim used was too large for mine so I made my own with this little frame and a word stamp. I made a background for it with distress paints in coordinating colors.

I added the wings the same way that Tim did his for the dragonfly. With some Wendy Vecchi, Clearly for Art and Archival ink. So cool looking. 

I think it came out really great and it looks super in my display along with my others.

Here are a few more photos of the finished piece.

I always have fun with Tim's 12 tags, I hope you will give this a shot and play along too. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a super day.