12 tags of christmas - day 7

Hi everyone!

It's stormy outside, and today is my day off, so this afternoon I sat down for day 7 of the 12 tags of Christmas. The techniques featured today are kraft glassine with alcohol inks. I must confess that I've ordered alcohol inks the other day, but unfortunately I didn't receive them yet. So I've been experimenting with a little piece of glassine and distress ink, but I didn't like the green. Eventually I used paint dabbers and made different shades of green. Then I wrinkled it up and sanded it and inked the veins with distress. I did the background again with distress ink instead of stains. Then I did go over it a bit more  with a blending tool with the same colors for a bit more effect and also so I could make drops with water. Half way through, I almost wanted to start over, but I'm glad I didn't! It turned out great!
Unfortunately you can't see the glassine through the paint but I'm just glad I finally used it! haha. I also, as Tim said, bought it because I was curious about it, and didn't know what to do with it! LOL. Another first, I used archival ink for embossing. And it works perfectly! Don't have black embossing powder, so that's why I used archival ink and clear embossing powder). The holly is cut with my eCraft machine.

The result:





The materials:

• Kraft paper, glassine
• Lace, ribbon, mesh, vintage tinsel
• Pearls
• Stamps: Tim Holtz, Prima Marketing
• Distress Ink: pumice stone, antique linens, old paper, frayed burlap, vintage photo, walnut stain
• Embossing powder: Clear
• Archival Ink: Jet Black

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope to see you tomorrow for another tag!

Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 6

Hi everyone!

We already are half way through the 12 tags of Christmas! I can't believe how much I've learned already. Although it takes all of my free time, I'm so happy I'm joining in! And today I've got a nice blinkie button tp put on my blog from the 12 tags! How cool is that! Tim has it on his blog! So if you want to get it also, that's were you can grab it.

Today's techniques are about using metal foil and paint dabbers. Pfeww, at least I have one of those two, the paint dabbers to be precise. But not Christmas like colors. I used tin foil instead of the metal foil. I also didn't have any Christmas-related embossing folders (only the snowflake one), so I decided to just go for the technique. But when it was finished, I also wanted to make a Chrismas / winter tag. Then I found some silver packaging which I could use instead of metal or tin foil! The packaging wasn't big enough for a #8 tag, but still big enough to make a tag out of it. Because the silver packaging was made out of paper with a silve coating, the paint wasn't easy to brush off. I spend an hour or so on it! But I'm pleased with the result, too bad that I can't make a great picture of it. The background is done with snow cap with a little tumbled glass over it for the clear embossing powder and also for the effect. But never the less, I like the last tag the most. Which one do you like the best? Please let me know!

The two tags:






The materials for the two tags:

• Paint Dabber: lettuce, pitch black, espresso, snow cap, gold
• Distress Ink: walnut stain, tumbled glass, frayed burlap, shabby shutters
• Flowers
• Ticket
• Embossing folders
• Embossing Powder: Clear
• Tim foil
• Charm
• Ribbon
• Mesh
• Button die: memorybox
• Pearl

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow!
Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 5 with SSS&S

Hi everyone!

Today I wanted to combine the 12 tags of Christmas with the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge, because the 12 tags are taking up all my time :). This week's challenge is show some elements of time.

I was a bit scared for this days tag, because I don't have any of the supplies that Tim used! I have no alcohol inks, no reflections stamps and not the die he used. I wanted to run to the store and  get me some reflections stamps and alcohol ink. Just in time I realized that the stores are closed on Monday. That made me freak out  more. Fortunately, once I calmed down, I had an idea and I thought of alternatives I could use for this tag. And I'm very pleased with today's result!

When I buy alcohol inks and reflection stamps, I'm gonna give these techniques a try! They're amazing!

The materials:

• Distress Ink: festive berries, black soot, barn door
• Stamps: Studio G
• Vintage tinsel
• Ribbon
• Mesh
• Rhinestones
• Twine
• Embossing Powder: white, silver bells
• Versamark
• Clock
• Charm

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow!
Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 4

Hi everyone,

Wow, what great tags this year, don't you think? I'm blown away by them! This is my first year, but  I looked at the previous years of course. And this year is definitely the best! I'm learning so much and I'm having so much fun! The tag of day 4 is also totally awesome!
I have a few colors of distress stains (but I do have picket fence of course), so I mainly worked with ink and water, unfortunately then the ink already reacted with the water, so I couldn't make the drops.

Then the crackle paint. I don't know what I'm doing wrong (maybe it's the paper...), but I can not get an  thick even layer on it. And if I put more on it, it just goes to the middle ... When it began to crackle I used my heat gun to speed up to process, and suddenly a big bubble came out of it! Huh? Then I had trouble with the stains and the coloring ... Ultimately, it ended up in the trash. Time for a new plan. This time I used a clear sheet and made ​​it white with a paint dabber. And on top, I put glossy accents. No crackle effect, but a nice shiny effect:). It took forever for it to dry!! 

The result for day 4:

 

 

The materials:

• Manila tag
• Clear sheet
• Embossing folder
• Paint Dabber: pearl, snow cap
• Charms
• Vintage tinsel, mesh, ribbon
• Stamps Bo Bunny, Tim Holtz
• Distress stains: Picket Fence
• Distress Ink: weathered wood, tumbled glass, broken china, shabby shutters, frayed burlap
• Glossy accents
• Buttons

Thanks so much for stopping by, hope to see you tomorrow!
Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 3

Hi everyone!

It's time for the third tag already! Time goes really fast! But luckily we have a lot more tags to go:). And todays tag is amazing! I like the technique with the custom inkpad very much. It´s so clever. It´s limitless! I didn't have the embossing folder, so I used the VersaMarker to trace some of the words and used clear embossing powder to emboss it. I like how it turned out, hope you do too:).

Here is my tag for day 3:



The materials:

• Manila tag
• Stamp: Tim Holtz
• Vintage tinsel garland (from the etsy shop of Tim Holtz: D)
• Versa Marker
• Embossing Powder: Clear
• Bell
• Pearls: Kaiser Craft
• Perfect pearls mists: Heirloom Gold
• Kraft Core and Coredinations
• Twine

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope to see you tomorrow for day 4!
Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 2

Hi everyone,

What a creativity unleashes the 12 tags of Christmas from Tim Holtz, don't you agree? I looked at the amazing creations that are on his blog, but also on the ATT group and blogs that I follow. Totally stunning! I'm so glad that I'm being a part of this. It really brings people closer together, and that's what Christmas is all about!

It's day 2 and Tim has made another tag for ​​us as inspiration. I really like that I'm  learning new techniques!

 

Here is my version of day 2:

The materials:

• Manila tag # 8
• Distress Ink: festive berries, frayed burlap, tumbled glass, shabby shutters, peeled paint, gathered twigs
• stamp: Bo Bunny
• Die: scallops
• Perfect pearls mists: perfect pearls
• Embossing powder: clear
• Paint dabbers: gold, pitch black
• Canvas and jute
• Distress Stickles: Picket Fence
• Grunge paper
• Split pens 

So glad you stopped by!
Sandra

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12 tags of christmas - day 1

Hi everyone,

It's finally time for the 12 tags of Christmas by Tim Holtz! Can you believe it?

I've been looking forward to this event for months. This is my first time and I'm very excited! I love the first day tag! It's gorgeous!

The pine cones I made with a svg file van lettering delights! The Noel sentiment I made in Make the Cut. Both are cut out with my eCraft.

 

Here is the result:




The materials:

• Distress inks: ice spruce
• Embossing folder: snowflakes
• Beads
• Embossing Powder: superfine white and snow bells (DC)
• Kraft core and core'dinations
• Distress Stickles: Picket Fence
• eCraft
• Paint dabber: Snowcap
• Hot glue gun
• Ribbon
• Pine cones: svg file lettering delights

Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you next time!
Sandra

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