Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014 MAY

Hello everyone, thanks for coming by the blog once again. Today I would like to share with you my creations for this months 12 Tags of 2014 by Mr. Tim Holtz

If you have time make sure to go by his blog here - Tim Holtz and check out the tag for this month. You may even get some inspiration to try out your own tag

If your like me, you cherish all those little trickiest that you buy and sometimes you don't even use them because they are too cute to use LOL... aren't we, as crafters, funny that way?

I know that I have a complete stock of many, many, many trinkets that I just love and Tim has really pressed us to use some of those items with this months tag and I'm so glad he did because that's what they are for, right? To be used on your creations! 

Once again, I am making postcards and I always make two, one for me and one to give away. 

To begin, Tim had asked us to use distress paint, stains or inks to color our background and I decided to use several different colors of distress inks
I did one in the blue tones and one in the orange/brown tones

Here are photos of my backgrounds before I added all the trinkets, I chose to use two different shadow press words for each and misc pieces of Tim's paper

For the first postcard I chose to use the butterfly and Industrious Frame Sticker just like Tim did but I added a word band to the bottom. I then used an arrow created like the butterfly, with paper and cardboard and the new Tim Holtz artful arrows bigs die

Since you couldn't really see the words on the word band, I used picket fence distress paint and painted it white and then wiped it down so the white would "settle" into the words
I also used a new Tim Holtz Idea-ology item called Monocles
 I used a piece of Tim's paper (the bird) and glossy accents to add the photo to the back of the monocle 

For my next postcard I used the honeycomb frameworks die to create my block in the upper middle here, I wanted my framework piece to be the same depth as the rest of my block pieces (each one is paper on top of cardboard) so I used a piece of paper without the cardboard underneath and added grungeboard under the frameworks paper, this way it ended up the same height as everything else. - the small bee is the only thing that I used that is not Tim Holtz's product, it is from Vintaj

Here are the postcards together

I love the way these turned out and I'm so glad that I got to get some of those ideology pieces out and use them

Thanks for coming by and have a wonderful day.

Finished Necklaces

It's a beautiful spring day here in Virginia, the sun is shinning and the birds are chirping. I'm getting ready to head out with the family to do something totally unproductive! haha!

Remember my post where I created a going away card? If not, here is a link to the post "Going Away Card" .... I showed you at the end of the post some pendants that I was working on to sort of match the card. I did the background for the pendants the same that I did the front of my card. 

Well, the ice resin finished setting up and I put together my necklaces this morning and I wanted to show you my finished pieces. They turned out really great. 

I used Vintaj brass colored wire to string my small beads and created head pin for each one. I also used Tim Holtz Idea-ology tassels on the bottom portion and mini gears for the inside.

Both necklaces are not the same but I think they both turned out great.  

I used Spellbinders Media Mixage for the bezel and some found objects and watch parts for the innards of each one. 

Thanks so much for coming by today, have a super day!!