Tim's Tags of 2014 - April Postcard

Hello all and thank you for stopping by and checking out my creation for Tim's Tags of 2014 APRIL

I just love Tim's tag this month as he has embraced his softer side. Tim's creations are always so wonderful and this tag did not disappoint 

Once again I am making postcards with the tags and I am making two each month. One for me and one for a friend of mine

For my postcards I used some different colors of Distress paints and inks than Tim but kept the same steps and concept

 I do not have the framework die that Tim used so I used the Honeycomb framework die for my project

I also used some of Tim's Eclectic Elements fabric and simply glued it onto grungeboard and ran it through the Big Shot.  I can use the parts for my honeycomb

This is what my backgrounds looked like before I added my other elements

Once everything was put together I had two finished postcards. I used Tim's Idea-ology tag labels for my word "Beauty"

I stamped the Bee onto Wendy Vecchi Clearly For Art with Staz-on ink and colored it with copic markers, cut it out, heated and shaped them

Thanks so much for stopping by and make sure to check out Tim's Tag for April, it's amazing as always!!

Cheers!

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.

Blue Print Butterfly Shadow Box

I have to admit I have been in sort of a slump for a short bit and haven't been partaking in my usual challenges last week or the week prior so I decided I better get into my craft room and just do what I love.
WARNING: Lots of Pictures and long post. :) Grab some coffee!!

When I saw that Tim Holtz challenged us over at his blog Here to use our Sizzix tattered floral die, I knew I had to do this. I also wanted to join in on Simon Says Stamp and Show this week. Their challenge is to use a stamp that we love but never use. 
I have had this Easter Blueprints Tim Holtz stamp set for a bit and I bought it because I just love the butterfly (you know me and butterflies, I have a soft spot for them) so I decided that this was the stamp I was going to use for this challenge. I haven't used it yet and I always eye it when I go into my stash.
I wanted to make another shadow box (I had made a smaller one here ) for this project and I got this really ugly 8x10 one that someone had painted orangish/red at the thrift store. Since I'm covering it anyway I didn't need to re-paint it. I used Tim Holtz tissue tape in several different designs to cover the outside. 

I then used the gold distress stain to add a bit of gold shimmer to it. (please excuse my messy craft area)

I then went through my paper stash and I have this wonderful Graphic 45 paper so I used that for my background. I grunged some of the edges on the smaller pieces and added Distress Ink in Gathered Twigs. I also used some tissue tape and gold distress stain on the smaller papers. I also stamped my butterfly onto the the brown colored sheet for my background. (didn't picture that sorry)

Once that was done, I set them aside to dry. I then stamped my butterfly on a sheet of blank white paper and embossed it with Ranger black embossing powder. I then colored and highlighted with distress markers in various colors.

I then created my set of wings with Wendy Vecchi's Clearly for Art. If you haven't use this stuff, it's fantastic. I can't say enough about it. I colored my clearly for art wings with Alcohol inks in various colors. 

I used the same technique with the clearly for art with my flowers. Layering the colors as I went, once that was done you can heat it up and shape it however you want to. If you don't like it, heat it up again and re-shape. The stuff is soooo cool.!!

I also used a background stamp to stamp an image onto one of the larger flowers (clearly for art piece) so that it would match the paper I used. I used Archival Ink in Sepia for this so it would be permanent.

Once that was done I heated these up and shaped them the way I wanted them to look. I'm sorry I forgot to take a picture of that process.

I also created some flowers with the same paper that I used for the background and inked up the edges with Gathered Twigs distress ink.

For one of my other large flowers I used perfect medium to go around the petals edges and then used this really cool Stampendous embossing tinsel. It's shimmery and has a glitter tinge.

I went over this petal with gathered twigs as well. 

This is what the flowers looked like once they were put together. I added a brad to each one.

I love the way they came out, so rusty and grungy looking. The Clearly For Art really gave me the effect that I wanted. So cool!!

Here is my project once I put it all together.

Before I put it in the shadow box. I also added some flourishes from one of Tim's movers and shapers dies. 

I made the little bead pins here as well. I just put together some beads that matched onto a head pin.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed the  shadow box I made. :)

I need to find some more of shadow boxes at the thrift store, I enjoy making these.