I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge for this week's "Tag" theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
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I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge for this week's "Tag" theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
I'm sharing a tag today that's made with a Found Relative, Remnant Rubs, and scraps of Paper Stash, embellished with Liquid Pearls and typewritten text.
The girls were roughed up a bit with a damp piece of Magic Eraser (perfect to use when a "gentle touch" is best) to lighten their flat black outfits that were then tinted with Pitt Brush Pens.
I also cut out tiny bits, here and there (around their arms, faces, etc.) to improve the factory cutting and make them appear more realistic. A final important step is to paint or ink the edges (I used black) to make the white paper backing blend in with the background (best to do before pasting).
I also scraped through the Remnant Rubs with an Xacto knife to further the distressed look.
I'm linking up to the Simon Monday challenge which is a "Fall Mood Board."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.
Let us begin to contemplate a change of course that
allows us to remain a civilized nation of law and liberty.
Prompted by Simon's "Artist Trading Card" challenge, may I present this trio made with an image transfer on kraft card stock using the sample ad for the Tim Holtz "Groups" Found Relatives as the background.
The next layer is white heat-embossed stamping (Tim Holtz Mail Art stamp set) along with some Tim Holtz Photobooth pics.
My stock of colored embossing powders is limited so I used permanent inks to tint/tone-down some of the stark white and also used a few strips of Tim Holtz Design Tapes. I painted on the white border.
I don't make many trading cards but if you'd like to see a few more, here's a link.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.I've used a Found Relative (Tim Holtz) to feature in this tag. Was Halloween just around the corner since this little tyke is wearing what appears to be a uniform jacket (that's a tad too big)?
The flowers were drawn by Alphonse Mucha (clipped from one of his posters) and I also used a torn bit of book paper tinted with inks and embossed with polka dots.
All the collage elements were placed on top of an oversized image of an old envelope that was found in a book on philately.
As I've mentioned before, I find the best way to tint the "relatives" is to use Pitt Artist Brush pens.I'm linking to Simon's Monday challenge since Halloween is the theme.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.A tag to share made with some Tim Holtz stuff: a Found Relative, a butterfly and a stencil called Thatched.
The Simon September card kit came with some of his Sentiment label stickers that didn't really appeal to me so I used them to cover a manila tag. Then I applied another layer over them using texture paste and the stencil.
I tinted the dress, skin tone and accents using Pitt artist brushes which are made from India ink, are waterproof, permanent and easily applied to the slick surface (highly recommend).
There are some collage bits: the text is from an old book, there's the crown and the flower-like accents (which are actually from an astronomy diagram).
I used some Liquid Pearls along the bottom.
I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge--this week's theme is to have "fun with stencils."
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.A postcard (from the edge?).... Expressing my feelings about events of the world we find ourselves in makes me appreciate the motivation behind artworks from other tumultuous times.
I took the back of a vintage postcard, added image transfers (window, birds), clipped Found Relatives, stamping (Tim Holtz Mail Art and Correspondence), tinting with markers and typewritten text.
If you're not familiar with my image transfer technique, here's a step-out I posted for your reference.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.This Christmas tag has a melancholy side as I made it to commemorate a singer songwriter who passed away four years ago on Christmas day. His name was George Michael and he wrote a song called "Praying for Time." The words to this ballad are especially poignant during the holiday season and speak volumes about this tumultuous year.
The techniques I used include fussy-cutting, distressing, stamping (hand-carved), and placement of ephemera on some Paper Stash.
I think it's worth noting that whenever possible, I peel the backs off photos, ephemera, etc., and rub away as much of the paper as I can to make these elements nice and thin. They naturally become more fragile but I encase them with medium (applied to both sides) so they hold up well when pasted down or painted over.
As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.
Until next time, take care.