12 tags of 2013 - June

 

 

It didn't take long to make this tag since I almost had everything Tim used. For a change! I still haven't bought the Distress Paints so I had to use ordinary acrylics again. I don't get the same result as Tim, but I still like the outcome of it. But I do have the Distress Markers! I liked the Distress Markers tutorial a lot. I haven't used them as much as I tought I would so I'm glad I got to use them in this challenge.

 

I started to stamp and color the image with my Distress Markers. Then I colored the tag with completely different colors so it didn't match the watercolored image at all. So I had to make a new watercolored image!

 

I used my new 325 g/m² aquarelle paper instead of the 200 g/m² I normally use. It was a big difference! I'm so glad I dragged it home from France! I have forgotten the repacking of the suitcases at the airport because my suitcase was to heavy!! (Hope the person that had to carry our dirty underwear in their suitcase has forgotten about it too!!)

 

For a bit of structure I added Crackle Accents on the butterflies wings and stapled the watercolored image to the tag.

 

 

This is my take on the June tag

 

Close-up

 

Here's what I did with the rest of the tags

 

MATERIAL:

INK:

Distress  Stain - evergreen bough

Distress Ink Pad - gathered twigs

Distress Markers - blue, green and beige/brown colors.

Making Memories - Scrapbook Colors - Fresh Anthology - Marine

StazOn - Black

STAMPS:
Stampers Anonymous - Urban Grunge, Boundless Flight

OTHER:

Crackle Accents

Seam binding

Staplers

The leftovers from the May tag!

I always get leftovers when I'm creating. Instead of throwing them away I've tried to make something of the leftovers from the 12 tags of 2013 challenges. I found it hard to color the tags for the May challenge, they didn't turn out the way I wanted. I'm not very happy with these tags but I decided to make some cards with them anyway.

 

Inzpira & Sizzix challenge!

The second tag I made following Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2013 tutorial ended up with really, really pale colors, strangely enough! I didn't know which one to use in the May challenge because I liked both of them. Then I saw the Swedish magazine Inzpira's challenge and decided to participate with my second tag there. The challenge was to make a card in pink, brown and turqoise with the theme 'fantasy' (imagination). My take on that theme is the round tag with the sentiment 'she knew that it was her destiny to create'.

 

MATERIAL:

INK:

Distress  Stain - wild honey, picked raspberry, evergreen bough, broken china

Distress Ink Pad - walnut stain, rusty hinge, evergreen bough

StazOn - Black

STAMPS:
Stampers Anonymous - Flight of Fancy, Life's Possibilities

Basic Grey - Aviary

OTHER:

7gypsies - steampunk rubbings - numbers

Arkwright - Transparency Film for Computer Printers

Round tag

Pink Paisleee - Christy Tomlinson - PP00899 Coffee Filter Words

Ranger - Crackle accents

Ribbon from flea market



12 tags of 2013 - May

 

 

May has been a busy month with sowing seeds, taking cuttings and repotting but here's my May tag finally. As usual I didn't have all the stuff Tim used, and since this tag was about rub ons I just needed to have some. I went to the the annual scrapbooking fair in the beginning of May and I found two (!) sets of rub ons to chose from! I don't think rub ons are very popular in Sweden yet. But neither did I think that I would use rub ons and even more like to use them! This was certainly a fun tag to make.

 

 

As usual I used the same colors as Tim. It's a good practise to use the colors that I normally don't use. I made a few tags as usual and all of the tags turned out different (take a look at this really, really pale one here!)

Instead of a enameled tag I used a metallic flower on which I punched the sentiment 'expect miracles', suiting the month of May as everything seems possible in this lovely month of the year! Instead of the film strip I stamped on the same transparency film I used on the April tag.

 



MATERIAL:

INK:

Distress  Stain - wild honey, picked raspberry, evergreen bough, broken china

Distress Ink Pad - walnut stain, rusty hinge, evergreen bough

StazOn - Black

STAMPS:
Stampers Anonymous - Flight of Fancy

Basic Grey - Aviary

OTHER:

7gypsies - steampunk rubbings - numbers

Arkwright - Transparency Film for Computer Printers

Metallic flower (with Alcohol Ink and some acrylic paint to make the sentiment stand out)

Ribbon from flea market



 

I just loooove Epiphany Crafts!

I'm so happy! I entered a giveaway on Epiphany Craft's Facebook page and look! I won!

Butterflies and wings

I just couldn't stop creating yesterday, I had so much fun! I also wanted to use up the stuff I got left from making the April tag. Here's what I ended up with!

12 tags of 2013 - April

OMG! I can't believe that I have missed these tutorials and challenges! I'm a big fan of Tim Holtz's stuff so I really don't get that I have missed all of this. Unfortunately, I learned that I really need to have the Distress Paints as well! ; )

Since I don't have the Distress Paints I tried to use ordinary acrylics and even though I kind of like the outcome of my tags, I didn't get the same result as Tim got with the Distress Paints at all. I tried to use about the same colors because I liked the color scheme om Tim's. I really loved the turquoise in Tim's tags so I tried to mix my own turquoise. I didn't succeed very well!

 

 As you can see, the acrylics didn't react with water at all. And the acrylics from Making Memories had almost dried so I tried to dilute them with water. God, I need those Distress Paints!!  ; )

Here are my tags before the stamping. I tried to use the same Distress Ink Pads as Tim here as well and that was a real challenge. Rusty hinge is my least favourite color of them all! But I'm glad I did. It's nice to think outside the normal sometimes. I can't make everything pink or purple & orange. The butterflies are painted in a somewhat solid color and then I have distressed the edges with walnut stain.

I didn't have any Clearly for Art as well so I used some transparency film and cut some butterflies out of it.



Here is my tag. I cut a tag from a can and punched 'fly away'. The heart is filled with 3D glaze and micro beads and it also has a sentiment 'free spirit'.

 

 A Close-up of the wings of the butterfly. I like that the acrylic paint on the wings of the butterfly began to bubble when I dried it with my heat gun!

I never make one when I'm making something. I'm clumsy and I often destroy what I'm doing. It is also convenient to have a piece to try things out on. This time I managed to finish all four of the tags I made! I just attached them to a white cardbase, I don't think the cards need anything else.

 This was such a fun challenge! I also adored the tag for March. I think I will have a go at that one as well!



MATERIAL:
INK:
Making Memories Scrapbook Colors: marine, avocado, country blue, sky
duga liquid metal: Dynasty pewter, Classic copper, Olympic gold
Distress Ink Pads: walnut stain, iced spruce, rusty hinge, evergreen bough
STAMPS:
Stampers Anonymous: Urban Grunge, Boundless Flight, Artful Things
OTHER:
Making Memories: Butterflies Metallique Reverie, no 36025
Metal embellishment from PY Hobby
3D Crystal Glaze
Arkwright - Transparency Film for Computer Printers
Can
Jump rings
Staplers
Manila tag
Flower ribbon from Panduro
Seam binding