peace ... joy ... love: Day 2 ~ Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas

Yes, I know. I am running way behind with my 12 tags of Christmas already, but I did say it would take the whole month ... I wasn't joking!

I am entering this into the 'Christmas' themed challenges at Stamp With Fun and Creative Card Crew.

OK, so this is my version of Day 2, it should have been simple but it drove me crazy! LOL! Tim's version can be found here.

My problems started when I did not have an ornate frame (first ingredient) or anything close to it! My 'frames' were few and far between so after experimenting painfully, I finally decided that it didn't have to be a frame ... I could create a border instead.

I used Winter Border stamps from Inkadinkado. I'm not really overwhelmed with the whole process of using distress powder and then rubbing ink on and wiping it off. I like to have a clear cut image, I don't really like the vagueness that is the end result of this method. However, having said that, I am quite pleased with my overall end result.

I don't really like the dark red and green Christmas colour combo that TH used, but wanting to keep vaguely with it and knowing there would be gold in there, this is what I used.

Somehow it created an orangey effect which is much more my colour scheme.

The 'Peace Joy Love' stamp is by PaperArtsy.

I used the same flourish stamp (if it can be called that) as for my Day 1 tag, from Little Yellow Bicycle.

As you can see, I did not add a metal flower as I don't own any so created a layered paper flower but did add a Tim Holtz ~ Long Fastener to the middle. Couldn't bear to crush it with a hammer though, so didn't!

For the flicky gold bits I used Gold Alcohol Ink. It didn't create big blotches as seen on the TH tags but more of a fine mist, which for my tag I think I prefer. I don't know if this effect was down to the ink or the brush I used, as the brush seemed to absorb a lot of the ink.

My metal corners ... don't even talk to me about that! I didn't have the TH ones, but did have some PaperArtsy ones. Unfortunately however, they do not sit at 90 degrees, so however much I bashed them, they didn't sit true. So having hacked uselessly at the corners of my tag a bit to get the metal corners to fit, I then pulled them off and used my Round-It-All to make the corners look pretty again.

Thank you for looking.

Keeley

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white christmas: Day 1 ~ Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas

I've decided to play along with the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas. I intend to do all 12, but it may take me the whole of December to get there as I have other projects on the go. So here I am at Day 1, running slightly behind (he has already published Day 3).

I am going to make these with the stash I have available, so I may not use all of Tim's products (is that a hanging offence?!). I will do so where I have them, but otherwise I will improvise. Well he does encourage us 'to think outside the box' and that appeals to me, rather than replicating what he has produced.

I am also entering this into the following challenges:

'Anything with hats' ~  Saturday Spotlight.

'Christmas' ~ Creative Card Crew.

'Snowmen' ~ Paperminutes.

Click photo to see detail.

Stamps used:
Snowman: Inkadinkado.
Snowflakes: Hero Arts.
Flourish: Little Yellow Bicyle.

I was aiming for a vintagy look in the colours that I chose.

Other products:

The scarf around his neck drove me crazy. This is the 5th scarf I made for him. Not sure that this image is really cut out for a scarf, so may remove it yet. All of my red ribbons looked a bit too bright, not very vintage looking at all and the browns looked blah, so I finally settled for this one.

Another view:

White Christmas stickers: Making Memories.

I didn't have a grungeboard flourish, so used a Fancy Pants chipboard flourish.


Thank you for looking.

Keeley

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altered skull

My mojo seems to have gone off for a walk this week, so unlike me. I've started a few projects, but can't seem to finish them, so I have a few things in various stages of completion.

I did manage to finish altering a skull today though. This has been on and off my craft table for the past week. Of course, it's not a real skull. It started off life looking like this:

I think it is made from a piece of MDF.

I am entering this into 11 challenges.

The theme is 'Halloween' at: Everybody-Art Challenge, Tuesday Taggers, Wednesday Stamper, Creative Inspirations and Stamp Something.

At My Time to Craft Challenge the theme is Halloween colours.

The Paperminutes challenge is that 'the shape of the card fits the theme'.

'F is for flying' is the theme at ABC Challenge -I have bats on my project.

Theme Thursday has a challenge of 'faces'.

Lots to Do has a recipe challenge of 'stamping, paint and metal'.

Finally, Our Creative Corner ask us to be 'inspired by our favourite holiday', mine is Halloween.

All the papers used are from My Mind's Eye ~ The Spider's Web collection. There's a lot of distressing going on.

I used a mixture of Tim Holtz crackle paint, crackle accents and stickles.

                           

It was really difficult trying to get a decent photo, so I have included a few here. If you click on the images, you may be able to see it better.

For the bats flying out of the top of the skull's head, I used an Inkadinkado ~ Happy Haunting stamp, which I also embossed. (I absolutely love this new range of Inkadinkado stamps and have accumulated a few now, so expect to see more on my projects).

The '31' numbers are metal Tim Holtz ~ Numerals which I've layered with acrylic paint and crackle paint. The crackle paint on the numbers hadn't finished its crackle process at the time of taking these photos.

                                          

I'm not quite sure what I will do with it now, but I'm mulling over a few ideas, whilst wondering when my mojo will put in an appearance.

Thank you for looking.

keeley

having a {me} day