Twelve Tags Of 2013 - #1

Good Evening Girlz!

I went to the Tim Holtz blog at the beginning of January and have now put mine together from memory.  I have a feeling it isn't even close to Tim's but.. a valiant effort!  I will find out for sure when I check his after posting mine!

For my tag I had to improvise quite a bit.  The sentiment is one that I picked out for the recipient of the tag.  He is a friend of my son who has his degree and is now venturing into politics.  I hope he likes it!

The gears were painted with silver paint and then once dry, rubbed with a VersaMark pad and sprinkled with Stampendous Aged Taupe Embossing Enamel and sprinkled with Zing Black glossy embossing powder. 

The film strip that Tim used wasn't available here so I used a ticket die and acrylic from a Spellbinder package.  I rubbed THoltz silver paint dauber and rubbed it in with my finger... and removed some as well.  This gave it a cloudy effect.

Tim used a pointed finger stamp which I didn't have so I cut one out with my Cricut using the Going Places cartridge.

The tag itself was distressed and then I stamped the Hero Arts Watch Gears stamp using Vintage Photo.  I quickly poured clear embossing powder over it all which gave it a nice glossy finish.

The strip with the sentiment was first stamped with Hero Arts Map of Americas using Distress Frayed Burlap.  The edges were distressed and then I used Vintage Photo on the edges.

My ribbon was first stamped with Archival Black, dried and then rubbed in Distress Honey.  It didn't turn out as I had hoped but... you live and learn!

Here are some closer views so you can see what I have been talking about!

The recipe is...
Stamps - Hero Arts Clock Gears and Map Of Americas
Inks - Distress Iced Spruce, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, Gathered Twigs
          VersaMark
Embossing Powders - Ranger Super Fine Clear, Stampendous Aged Taupe Enamel, Zing
Dies - Tim Holtz Gears
Cricut - Going Places Cartridge
Paper - Recollections, Staples 110 lb.
Seam Binding

Thanks for looking!

Hugz,
Sheree

Oh Valentine!

Good Evening Girlz!

I know.. We just entered into a new year and I am talking Valentines!  (Speaking of new year.. I just noticed my watermark still says 2012..oops!!)  The one I am posting tonight was fun to make.  If you want me to do a picture tutorial of the glossy parts just leave a comment below.  I have been playing around with distressing and this idea popped into my head so I headed off to the rubber room to  play with paper, ink and loads of embossing powder!!

 I started by cutting out the hearts using my Cricut and the Sweetheart cartridge.  The main white hearts were set at 5 1/2 inches.  Two were cut using the main scallop shape and two using the shadow option.  I embossed one scallop with Swiss dots and left the other hearts plain.  Using tape, join one scallop to each of the shadow cut hearts. 

 

The hearts were joined together by scoring the back hearts at approximately 1/2 inch.  Tape the back to the front and now start to decorate!

 

For the front I cut the  same heart using the shadow option at 3 1/2 inches.  I cant exactly remember if it was that or 3 3/4 inches.  Eeghad! 

 

I distressed the larger coloured heart using Distress inks and embossing powder.  Before embossing I used the Hero Arts music backgrund stamp and Walnut Stain ink for fun. 

 

The heart lock is also from the Sweetheart cartridge.  I cut that at 2 1/2 inches and distressed the red heart layer and embossed the heck out of it as well.  It is hard to show how dimensional everything looks in photos so trust me when I say everything really does look better in real life!!

 

 

I punched two holes to feed the black ribbon through.  The skeleton key on the inside was cut from a Tim Holtz die and distressed to look like wrought iron.

 

 

 

The sentiment inside was done on the computer and cut out.

 

 

There you have it!

 

Hereès the recipe...

 

Stamps - Hero Arts music background

Inks - Distress Walnut Stain, Fired Brick, Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey, Festive Brrries

Ranger clear embossing powder

Cricut - Sweethearts

Cuttlebug

Ribbon - Unknown from stash

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Hugz..

Sheree

 

Mother's Day - Hero Arts

Good Morning Chicks!

Just a quick post this morning.

I've seen a few challenges out there for either Mother's Day, Spring or Pastels.  This, is my entry for all of them!

The main image stamp is from Hero Arts #S5033 Silhouette.  I stamped it in Versa Color Old Rose and embossed it with Hero Arts clear embossing powder.  The sentiment stamp is from Stampin' Up! and it is embossed as well.

I can't remember where the paper is from... my stash!  I made the bow with ribbon from WalMart and the butterfly is from a sticker package called Bride's Own from WalMart as well.

Hope you all have a wonderful work week!

Hugs,

Sheree 

Challenges...

The Outlawz - Greeting Card Challenge - Pastels

S.O.S. !!!

Happy Tuesday to all my Blogland friends! 

I'm in need of some help with this one!  When I was thinking about this card I thought up a CAS design but things always look different once they're on paper.  So... I'm at wits end as to what this card needs!  I tried the white flowers but it took away from the stamped image.  I tried ribbon but that just didn't work either!

My followers and the creators I follow are the most creative people I know.  Please feel free to critique this one and if you have any suggestions I'd appreciate every one!   If you can think of an embellishment, background paper or layout that would work better with this image... Let me know!

Here's a pic of the side view.  I had stamped the image twice with the top image embossed and cut out.   Using pop dots to secure the image, I set it off centre. 

Stamps Used:

Hero Arts & Stampin' Up! for the sentiment

Paper:       Unknown from stash

Pop Dots

Cricut:      George cartridge

Stampendous embossing powder

Bling:  Dollarama

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful work week!

Hugs,

Sheree

Update!!!

I would like to thank all of my creative friends for helping me out with this one!  My car couldn't get home quick enough so that I could play while cooking dinner.

Everyone's ideas were fabulous and I could picture them all in my mind.  The hard part was making my mind tell my hands what to do.  The idea of embossing the background paper is a fab one!  We all know what happens when one uses sukwang (sp?) tape?  It's stuck forever!  The next card along this line will defintely be embossed!

I brought out the bling (my craft drawers have more than I do in my dress up drawer) and played with different positions.  After measuring here and measuring there I finally ended up putting the gems under the sentiment.  I think it turned out okay.

My mojo comes and goes with my hot flashes.  Some days it's as if I have  clear tunnel from ear to ear!  haha!  Hopefully one day all the shorts in the wires will join correctly .. for now I just feel like the scarecrow!

Time to post another one I threw together last night as it was raining cats and dogs...

Thanks girls!

Sheree