Hello everyone
It's great to connect
with you all again. Hope you have been having fun crafting. So just
before we wave the Month of May goodbye, I would like to share my take on this
month's Tag Challenge. Phew, I am glad to be able to share this just before the deadline.
Talk about the guilt, of not having it done in time. It drove me mad... I don't
know if any of you had this experience before, but I almost felt guilty every
morning thinking, I only have a few days left, not being sure if I'd make it this
month. Well, all that is gone now and I did keep up to my new year's resolution
of participating every month, so far anyway... Usually it's the very first
thing I do, but I've been a very crafty lady and had way too much priorities on
the list this last couple of weeks.
So below is the tag Tim
Created for us this month, and I really loved it. Please hop over to the Tim Holtz Blog, to see how he has gone about to do it.
So here is my version:
I did not have the new
embossing folders, so I created my own version by using a combination of
chipboard letters and Spellbinders Mixage Media Foil.
First of all I created
my own Embossing template by sticking my chipboard letters on a piece of
cardstock. To get an image where the letters were sunken, rather than raised, I
reversed the letters by turning them on their backs. The next step was doing
the embossing, so by placing my template on a cutting plate, I lied my foil on
the colored side facing down on top and then a rubber mat, followed by my
texture plate. Wolla, all done.
From this point on, it
was easy. I simply colored my foil using Archival ink and put some holes in it
for the brads and glued on the other embellishments. I also discovered that my
trusty Kaszazz tag needs to be a whee big bigger so I added 2 small layers of
hessian ribbon and a scrap piece of leather that worked perfectly with the
brads at the bottom.
I also decided to cover
my tag with burlap/hessian rather than using pattern paper. Instead of doing
patchwork, I stamped with paint on the washi-tape I modge podged onto the
burlap. Using embellishments and the stamp created the idea of patchwork
sections, rather than doing it the way Tim has.
I loved doing this
challenge and hope you all had fun trying this out this month. If you still
want to give it a go, definitely do so. It's a great way of using those hoarded
little bits that never gets used because we feel sorry for them.
Products: Tag-Kaszazz , Archival Ink-Ranger, Acrylic
Paint- Studio Artist, Stamp-Kaszazz , Embellishments - Kaszazz, Finnabair &
craft markets ; Ribbon - Scrap Matrix; Foil- Spellbinders, burlap, leather,
Helmar glue and red double sided tape.