Fun Tag

A tag to share. 

I used the Tim Holtz dies to cut out the wings and dress form.  the "fly" was from a sizzix die.  I used my computer to print the rest of the words.  I cut the tag from white card stock and inked it with distress ink (vintage photo). I sprayed my stamp (hand writting) with water and pressed it on the stamp to get the ghosting effect.  The birds are stamped in "black soot" distress ink.  I used "frayed burlap" on the dress form and then stamped with my "itty bitty" stamp the writting.  I inked the base of the dress form with "tea dye" distress ink. The face is made out of hot glue with gold "rub n buff" and then I used my copic markers to color the lips red and the eyes blue.  The crown was given to my by my sister and it was gold.  I thought I would mute the gold with alcohol ink but when I bloted the ink off the gold came with it so I just left it silver. 

Valentine's Day Cards

I tried a couple techniques with my Cuttlebug and then I moved on to something I knew I could do.  I know if I worked at it a little bit I could probably master this technique but I have not been motivated enough to do it, so here are the ones I did.

On this one I ran white card stock through my Cuttlebug and then ran my teal ink pad over the embossed image.  The paper was a bit tattered in some areas due to the deep impression the embossing folder left so those areas sucked up the ink.  When I tried to put some extra paper in the folder (as I have seen done in videos) it wouldn't go through my cuttlebug.

On this one I inked up the embossing folder but apparently not well enough as you can see there is more ink in more areas than others.

This is the front of my Valentine card the glittery hearts and the "I Love You" are stamped and embossed adn the "Happy Valentine's Day" is a rub-on and the birds and the deep red heart are stickers.

Here is the inside I used more stickers (the bird, envelopes, and heart) and rub-on's (adore and xoxo)
I plan on giving this to my husband.  Oddly enough he love this kinda thing.  Please leave questions or comments.


Here is another card.

Dogwood cards

Here are a couple of cards I was working on.  The thank you card was for my mother-in-law.  She made me dinner and a cake for my birthday.  The other is just one I made because I felt like playing with my stamps and my distress markers.

 

Steam punk tag

I enjoyed making this tag today. The face was made using a "sculpey mold" and hot glue. After it cooled I popped it out and used "Rub'n Buff" (gold) on it. I attached it to the card with Glossy Accents. I made the flowers using Tim Holtz "tattered flower garland". After attaching them together with glue I used a tiny bumble bee brad in the center to attach to the tag. I made the tag in the usual way by inking and stamping. The gears are Spellbinders "sprightly sprockets" after cutting them out I inked them with the adirondack mixactive in silver.

I hope I explained it well enough for you.  If you have any questions drop me a comment.

Work In Progress-Travel Journal

Let me first of all say sorry for the poor picture quality. I took these with my iPad because I am still having difficulty uploading pictures from my PC to my blog. So I did half the blog on my iPad and the rest on the computer. So here is the finished journal (I think).  I keep wanting to add more to it but I guess I should leave that to the person this will eventually belong to.  I may put some ribbon on the book rings so they don't look so stark.  But all in all I really like it.

Either a photo or journaling can go here.  I showed both options on this page  above and the one below.  The white card can be removed easily to replace it with a picture or turn it over and journal on the back.

I made more tags that can be used for pictures and/or journaling and then tucked into the vellum pocket.

I stamped and cut out the airplane and positioned it so those cards can be removed and replaced with a picture and the white lined paper can be journal-ed on and put into the pocket page with the ledger lines on it. (I hope that makes sense).

 

This is the opposite side of the white pocket page with the cards and tags taken out of the pocket.

The "post card" is the back of the globe card/tag from the previous picture.  The little brown stripped paper is an envelope I made to look like air mail (I hope).

I thought this was really cute with the "guest check"  it can be removed and replaced with a photo or a photo can be tucked behind it.  I attached the little journal tag with a coat hanger paper clip.  I thought it was appropriate with the suit case.

This is what this section looks like put together. and below is what it looks like with all the tags taken out.  The "post card" is the back of the white paper showing with the suitcases stacked on top of each other.

THE END.

 

I hoped you liked looking at this.  I will be posting this in my Etsy shop this week.  Please leave comments or suggestions, I'd love to hear from you.

Travel Journal Scrapbook

This is a work in progress but I wanted to post this little goodie for now. This is not the best photo quality. For some reason my PC isn't working with my blog. I am posting with my iPad and am not quit as proficient as I was on the computer, not that I was proficient at that either, but at least I could navigate better on the other.
I will post more when I can. Hopefully I will have the glitches fixed and be back up and running next week.

Color Swatch

I was asked to post a mini tutorial on my color swatch I made for my copic markers, so here it is.  I started with a few basic supplies. Bristol smooth paper, my big bite and a tag punch.

 

I punched out a stack of tags and used my big bite to punch a hole through several tags at a time. I used the chiseled end of my copic and as I moved down the tag I added a line of color.  For instance the first line drawn is just one stroke of the pen the second line is two strokes and so on.  I illistrated here with both a dark and light color pens. I labeled them with the number and put them on a book ring.  I am showing the front and the back.  As you can see the darker colors bled through to the back of the tag.  This ring is so easy to carry with me to the store when I am in the market for a new color.