Grungy Monday #19 and Simon Says Stamp and Show a TH Technique

Great stuff again this week... opportunities to get inky and get out the paints. I have done a tag for Simon Says Stamp and Show a Tim Holtz technique and for Grungy Monday #19, Tim Holtz Christmas tag here... ooo, so exciting... so sit tight and here we go!!

 Yippee... lots of opportunities here to use my new Victor Vagabond... for the plastic tag and texture folder and the umbrella man die. Holding breath, I tiptoed up to VV and prepped for him cutting and texturizing... and it worked!!! Hurrah!!

I decided to use the TH technique but to substitute my own ingredients... The background was painted with trad tan, then distressed with Viva gold and haematite, to give this grungy feel. The stamp is double stamped in weathered wood and black soot, then embossed with clear ep - well THAT is very unusual for me!!! tee hee...

 The piece was finished off with a double crystal bauble from TH and two phillips screw head brads... T!m used washers etc here...

 The umbrella man was coloured with Viva haematite, a wonderfully shiny, grey paste, then he was printed with words from a TH stamp... this picture shows the great dots pressed into the plastic packaging tag, meant to look like rain... no!!! you would never have guessed eh!!?

 The bow was seam binding, dyed with weathered wood distress ink. I stood the tag up for these two shots and the reflections were very interesting...

So there we have my latest tag - not sure how many I have made this year, but it IS a very lot!!! tee hee... Thanks for looking and leaving your wonderful comments... off to do a bit more tidying and crafting
Love and light
Frankie
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New Day, Two New Challenges -

I have been hampered recently, but getting back into the swing - up/down, up/down!!! No... create, create... I missed Grungy Monday #5, even though we had two weeks, but the first challenge here will be for GM #6, hosted by Linda on Studio L3. She has asked us to look at Sir T!m's Christmas tag from the past for our inspiration... fab.

So I have made my background using that technique, but different colours. You can get a better view, close up in the picture below...

Firstly, I painted with lettuce and snow white, but it looked too bright, so I toned it down with Claudine Hellmuth gesso, applied by finger!!! It was smooched over with vintage photo, and stamped with that fantastic stamp from the new papillon sheet... clear ep added some great texture.

Even closer,shows the technique really well... The second challenge will be for Simon Says Stamp and Show - anything goes... well this is what went!! but I am SO late I suspect they won't even notice it, as there are so many entries for an open challenge!!

Bottom right is a pearl UTEE embellishment, perfect pearled, made from a brass one moulded... I was pleased how it turned out...

Even closer, you can see how shiny, glimmery and blingy it really is. The piece was a steampunk watch, gears and dragonfly... used up now on another project, but echoed nicely in the mould I made of it...

This shot just shows how dimentional the piece is and how pretty the colours are. The moths and butterflies were stamped from the papillon set, on sticky back canvas and cut out to fit onto a strip of lost and found paper.

So there you have it... I did this post several times this week, and blogger just foiled me every time - would have been useful if the foil were bling!!! but it was all just so frustrating, wasn't it??... Anyway, it's now SO late in the week, it's hardly worth the challenges, but I shall share it anyway and hope you have enjoyed looking at it. It's yet another one to find a home for, but I love the colours and it's smaller than some of the others I have made recently!!! Hope you liked it and will leave me a comment, cos I love hearing from you.

I now have a great idea for that thingy for my followers, but I will leave that to another day to discuss it with you!!!!! no, you can't get it out of me yet...!!

Love and light

Frankie

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