Monday 3 February 2014

Artful Times - In the style of Tim Holtz & Tag Along -- Your favourite technique, The Artistic Stamper -- Use Distress.

This time I have made two tags for three challenge sites. Artful Times - Tim Holtz style, and Tag Along - Your favourite technique, and The  Artistic Stamper - Use distress  As one of my favourite methods for doing backgrounds is using Tim's distress inks, I used this on both tags.
On the first one I embossed the tag with Tim's splatter folder and did a little bit of stamping on the background. I made a 3D butterfly with Wendy Vecchi's modelling film, and Tim's frosted film. I coloured it with alcohol inks. It hasn't photographed very well. I added a Tim pen nib, a fancy book plate, and a stamping from his butterfly stamps. The crinkly ribbon is coloured with distress inks, and I have hung two of Tim's pearls on it.

For the second one the background was embossed with Tim's wood grain folder and rubbed over with a darker colour. The leaves were cut from the tattered leaves die, and coloured with the inks. One has distress crackle paint on. I couldn't resist adding some of Tim's cogs, and metal florals, a wooden clock and one of the word bands. I finished it off with a saying held on with one of Tim's clips. A folded ticket covers the base of the leaves at the bottom.

11 comments:

1CardCreator said...

Both of these tags are gorgeous each in its own way, the butterflies are very beautiful too. ~Diane

chrissie said...

These are both stunning Wendy. So good to have you join us at Artful Times for the challenge

Love Chrissie x

Anonymous said...

As always just really clever and quite beautiful.

Anonymous said...

As always very clever and quite beautiful. xx

Meggymay said...

Two fantastic tags, love the super backgrounds and 'Tim' details.
Yvonne

Von said...

Love the two different colour choices the yin & yang of Tim Holtz :)
Thank you for sharing with us at Artful Times
Von ♥

massofhair said...

Two beautiful Tags Wendy, both so different and have fabulous textures and dimension:-) xxx

Craftyfield said...

Both tags are beautiful, each with their different style. Love the butterfly with its vivid colours!

Craftychris said...

These are both stunning! Lots of texture and technique. The colours for both are gorgeous! xx

Words and Pictures said...

Two lovely tags - it's plain to see you had lots of fun creating with your favourite products and techniques! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Artistic Stamper.
Alison x

Jennie -The Artistic Stamper said...

These are gorgeous! Thank you for joining in The Artistic Stamper Challenge :)

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