Tim's 12 tags of 2012

After months of viewing the beautiful tags on Tim Holtz's site I decided to jump in and try one myself. 

 I just adore Tim Holtz and his style.  His designs push my out of my comfort zone.  

I usually lean towards clean straight lines.  

This month Tim showcased a tag using metal foil tape and alcohol inks.  

I have never been successful with my alcohol inks in the past so I have only purchased a few colors.   

I  also do not own any of the metal foil tape so I had to get creative.  

I used 3 layers of aluminum foil and glued them to the tag creating different layers and designs.  I choose 3 layers of foil so that I would have a thick layer to be able to add the indentations to the tag.  I then followed Tim's direction by using a retractable ink pin to make interesting indentations/marks into the foil.  

I then blended the alcohol inks onto the foil.
Guess what???  I think I was sucessful with my inks.  Yay!!

I then stamped on some numbers and added some paper and embellishments.  

I also used some of the new Stampendous Purple fragments to add some more dimention to the tag.

So for my first attempt in making a tag from Tim's 12 Tags of 2012 turned out great.  

Now I need add a roll of the metal foil tape to my collection.  

Thanks for checking in.

Farm Fresh Friday

I am happy to report that I was the winner of last weeks Farm Fresh Friday challenge.  I have a wonderful new stamp on the way.  It is one I have been eyeing for some time now.  

Thank you Greeting Farm.  I will enjoy my new stamp.    

Enough of the celebration.  It is time to get to work again for this weeks challenge.  

The theme is "White Out."  I found this one to be a little challenging but I made it through.  

This image is another fun Anya stamp from the Greeting Farm.  

Thank for stopping by.  

Teresa

Farm Fresh Friday

Wow!!  I can not believe how fast this week went.  It is Sunday and that means it is time to post for the Farm Fresh Friday challenge over at Splendid Stamping at the Greeting Farm.  This weeks challenge is Paper Piecing.  I used scraps to piece together Anya's dress, socks and shoes.  I even pieced the little ruffle on the bottom of the dress.  

Thanks for stopping by....

Teresa

Crafts Meow August Sketch Challenge

Today I share with you a card I made for the Craft's Meow monthly sketch challenge.

Here is the is the sketch.

I kept the card simple.  I used part of the image and sentiment are from the Natures Beauty stamp set.  

This is a good example of using something that you tried but didn't turn out so well.  I was experimenting with some techniques and I was not happy with the overall results.  However there were some area's that I really liked...  so I used a punch and took a piece out of the image.

Thanks for stopping by...  Teresa

Farm Fresh Friday

It is Farm Fresh Friday again over at Splendid Stamping with the Greeting Farm.  This weeks challenge theme is Birthday.  Greeting farm has some super fun images. Take some time to check them out.
  Here is my card for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Teresa

Crafter's Companion USA August Challenge

This is the first time I have completed the Crafter's Companion Challenge.  I really enjoy their blog.  They have some great designers.  Please check them out

This month's challenge is "Friendship."  I used Humphrey's Corner Collection - Me to you.

Thanks for stopping by!

Teresa

Farm Fresh Friday Challenge.

Today's challenge comes from the Greeting Farm.  I finally got some of their cute stamps.  Check out their awesome blog here.

I used the Ebony stamp for this card. She is very cool.  I love her little skull t-shirt.  

 

Thanks for stopping by

Teresa