Grungy Monday #4-A New Dimension

  Can you believe we have had 2 weeks for the Grungy Monday challenge and I am just getting to it now. I loved Tim's idea with the piece of railway tie. I hoped I would find something like that I would be inspired by but it didn't happen so I went with paper and elements I love. I did pick up some watches at the thrift store so that helped. I am not finished with this piece yet but decided to put it away for today after not noticing I had cut my finger and getting blood on it and then  gluing the back on backwards. It is usually when I am trying to be very careful that stuff like that happens. I have used Graphic 45 Steampunk paper , TH embellishments, rusty hinge distress ink, vintage photo distress stain and copper tape.


  Thank you for looking! Happy Mother's Day!

The Color Purple

  The color purple is a favorite of mine and it also happens to be Challenge #77 over at DRAGONSDREAM  TAG IT ON. I also wanted to make something for the Just for Fun Challenge where we are to make inchies. My background is made using TH stamps and dusty concord distress ink. My crows and sentiment are stamped with Stazon Royal Purple. The flowers have been cut from textured papers with a Stampin Up Die. Lace paper, ribbons, button and dragonflies are all from my stash.
 Thank you for looking! I hope you are getting inky today.

TH Christmas tags from Start to Finish - 2008 # 7

  Here we are at tag 7 for 2008. I used the TH snowman die but I love the snowman that Tim used. I also used a different recipe for my snow. It worked well. Stuck to everything. The background is made with distress inks that you mist after you have blended your colors (my favorite technique). I used a Th snowflake stamp and the rest is from my stash. Thank you for looking. You can go to " Inkin It Up" to check out more examples.


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Tim Times Ten Grand Giveaway Challenge -Day 8

  The challenge for us today over at  Stampin' Dymonz Creative Space is to make a distressed tag using at least 3 colors, a sentiment stamped in more than one color, a stamped image and a unique ribbon or embellishment. I  was thinking about my neighbors who are flying off to Paris for 2 months, when I made this tag. I want to make some kind of album for her to fill when she gets back. I have used victorian velvet, aged mahogany, walnut stain and fired brick distress inks. Most images are done with jet black archival ink. All of the stamps are Tim Holtz. I dyed and curled the ribbon.


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Tim Times Ten Grand Giveaway Challenge -Day 7

  For Challenge # 7 over at Stampin Dymonz Creative Space we are creating an acetate tag with a wintry feeling. The recycled acetate must be dry embossed and inked. The tag must be 2 layers, include an image and we must use some type of dimensional product to embellish. My image is from Art Impression which I stamped on black card stock and then painted over with white acrylic - wiping off the paint from the embossing after it had mostly dried. I dry embossed part of the tag with the TH snowflake folder.I decorated my snowman with distress stickles. I made a concoction of dry snow, glue. and Ranger lace stickles and spread it sparingly on the tag and on the embossed snowflakes (TH folder) of the acetate. I added some blue with a permanent marker. I sprayed the acetate with glimmer mist (Delta). I applied rock candy stickles to the card stock as well. Well by then I knew it was time to stop. I glued it together, added some ribbon and stamped the message (SU)on top  and edged with white acrylic paint. The scan doesn't show how sparkly it is.
I am glad it isn't snowing here.  Thank you for looking!

Ten Times Ten Grand Giveaway Challenge -Day 6

  Today's challenge at Stampin Dymonz Creative Space asks us to make a gift card holder tag. It must have a pocket with at least 2 of it's corners punched. It also must include 3 handmade flowers, a sentiment and the background must be created using ink. I have used stamps from Red Lead and Stampin Up. My corner punch is from Fiskars and oval punch is Stampin Up. My flowers are embossed 3 times and cut out. I have used archival ink and distress inks - stormy sky, antique linen and black soot.


Thank you for looking. Have a great day!

Ten Times Ten Grand Giveaway Challenge -Day 5

 Well I missed yesterday's challenge but have done today's. For the 10x 10 Challenge #5 we needed to create a Card Tag. On it we have to include an image we have colored with Copics or markers and then mount it on sanded cardstock. I have used Stampin Up markers - pale plum, so saffron, mellow moss and going grey. My image is from PSX. Thinking of You is from River City Rubber Works. It is mounted on TH coredinations paper.I used TH Alterations Tag and Bookplates die to cut my card. I love using water color pencils for coloring images but find markers a lot trickier.
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