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.