Sewing themed tags!

I offered to demo for our calligraphy guild, along with several other artists. The theme was revamping & recycling . I had several backgrounds ready to rock from the CC101 classes, and decided on a sewing theme.

I used vintage lace, buttons and old sewing patterns along with sewing themed stamps & texture fades. I used 2 sets from Tim Holtz, and one of the newer ones from Wendy Vecchi! I also used Tim's Sewing theme Texture Fade.

I also used old book, music and dictionary paper.

 

This one was done using one of the backgrounds I created during my frenzy of "Layered Misting" for day 4 of CC101. I think I made about a dozen tags as I L.O.V.E. using The Crafters Workshop Stencils! I did add some Biscotti Perfect Mist, which you can tell in the shimmer of the close up. I overstamped with Archival Jet black, using a beautiful stamp from Wendy Vecchi's set "ART BY HAND' LCS068. I used the Tattered Floral die along with vintage book pages & music sheets. There's Rock Candy Stickles on the flower, which is shows up in real life... the 'lace' at the bottom is a paper lace, colored with Distress Stain in Peeled Paint.

In this tag, the Dressform & spool are cut from Grungepaper, and painted using Dabbers. The background is done on book paper, inked with Stains left over on the craft sheet from making the flower in the tag above. MORE RECYCLING! There's vintage pattern paper adhered with Multi-medium on the bottom. The Stamps are again from the "ART BY HAND' set. I don't think you can tell as the ribbon is in the way, but the mini fasteners, are the PERFECT SIZE to use as the screw in the scissors!

A vintage button & threadding on the spool complete the look.

I love the way this turned out! I hand dyed the ribbon with Dusty Concord & Antique Linen Distress Stain. the vintage lace was died with Tea Dye & Vintage Photo Stains.

The tag was embossed with the Sewing set Texture Fade, then inked with Festive Berries, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain Distress Inks.

I made a tiny tag from the Tiny Tag & Labels die. You can see Vintage pattern paper at the bottom of the tag.

The round piece is Grungeboard, painted with Picket Fence Distress Stain, stamped with Archival, then coated with Rock Candy Crackle. I then inked over it with some stains to add color.

Tagfest continues....

Dies and ink and stains and images and modeling paste, stamps and stencils and...

This one started out as a tag with modeling paste over a Crafters Workshop stencil. NOTE TO SELF: ink tag before applying modeling paste. OR add pigment to the modeling paste. Not a necessity, just something different to try.

I had gotten out my palette knife and paste and just did up a bunch of tags at one time. A great way to add some texture!

WHICH btw, did you know there is a 'clinical' name for texture addicts?

Thank you Mr. DeMeng for putting a name to my issue......

This image, I just love! I'll have to find the artist/source to give proper credit. I did alter it in PSE with snowfakes, but that was a year ago, and well, I forget.... It is covered with Rock Candy Stickles!

The big blue snowflake behind the tag is from Sizzix. After applying the modling paste and allowing it to dry, I inked the tag with Distress Ink in Broken China and Stormy Sky the heat set. Next sprayed the whole thing with Pewter Radiant Rain, let setup a bit then heat set. It gave a really nice shimmer! The snowflake in the back is done in the same manner, then cut in 1/2 and adhered to the back.

The silver tinsel garland is from Target last year. I LOVE what happens when I hit it with my heat gun.....

This tag is done again with modling paste and the tree bark stencil from Crafter's Workshop.

I inked the tag with Twig Distress Ink, and oversprayed it with Copper mist.

The ornament is a Sizzix die, stamped with acrylic gold Dabber over a Peeled Paint Distress Stain.

And NOEL is a new Tim Holtz die, cut out of a heavy glitter paper  by Recollections. This stuff has great weight, so dosn't need to be propped with another layer for support!

And it's 'sparklelishous!'

Which you could see here IF blogger would JUST ALLOW me to rotate the image (it is right in my camera phone).... frustrating. Just please tilt to the left until I correct this....

This tag uses the BRICKS stencil and modling paste. I wanted it to look like a framed picture over a fireplace.

How'd I do?

The image is from a Christmas collage sheet from Altered Pages.

The 'mantel' was done using Picket Fence Distress Crackle Paint.

The 'wallpaper' is stamped with one of Tim Holtz' new Christmas Silhouette stamps, and outlined with a Sharpie White poster paint pen.

Finished off with holly garland, German Scraps I got at Artist and Display and mica!

HO3

Get it? HO3 ....

Give it a little time.... LOL!

So this mornings tag was done using one of Tim's new Cling Mount Stamp sets CMS118 Christmas Memories! I love the retro look of this set, and seriously need to do it in Silver, Pink and Lime!

But for today, I'm keeping more traditional. Over on Linda's Studio L3 blog her Grungy Monday Challenge is a masking technique based on one of Tim's 12 tags from 09. Well it's quick and easy enough to do. Masking has been around for as long as I've been stamping, which is almost 20 years! And I'm POSITIVE, it was around long before that! Why else would there be a dozen differnt products out there to aid in it? But I was lazy and just used a piece of cardstock rather than cutting masking material. So there, making in it's earliest, primal form!

I stamped the Santa on the tag with Archival in Crimson, then onto a 2nd piece of 110# cardstock & trimmed him out. This piece became my mask. Laid the mask over Mr. C, and Inked around him using Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress Ink. I also use the mask when putting Picket Fence Distress Crackle paint by his feet so his boots didn't get smutz on them!

Again with the mask to stamp the 'star' in a Gold Dabber.

See the shinney boots and belt? Enamel Paint by Ranger. There's Rock Candy Stickles on the 'fur' of Mr.C for a bit of sparkle too.

The Fragment was inked with BOTTLE Alcohol Ink, and HO3 adhered behind it. HO HO HO. Ho to the power of 3. Are you having a DUH moment or did you get it?

And I know you have to turn your head just a tad to the left, but you'll want to do this to see that really cool tissue tape from Cavallini!

When I get around to it, I'll fix it.... 

Debossed gloss

So I had to give Tammy Tutterows technique a try, here's my results on coated cardstock from LCI paper.

After inking, then debossing, I used both Distress Crackle and Crackle accents on each piece, side by side to see if I could tell a difference between the products. There was really no visible difference I could see.





Each piece is stained with Distress Stain in Fired Brick and Wild Honey.


 

After scrapping with the Crackle & heating, I went over each piece with a little Vintage Photo Distress Stain which gave it a cool look.





I've taken Embossed papers and coated them with Multi Medium and/or Glossy Accents in the past. This gives them a sheen and lovely finished look I love! Plus, you can sprinkle glitter on them for a little shimmer during the holidays!

This technique gives another look I love!










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Adhering Kraft Glassine

Supplies needed:Embossed Kraft Glassine

Glossy Accents

Craft Iron

An inked tag or other project

This isn't an excercise on how to ink a tag, but

getting the Kraft Glassine, which as an oily feel to stick! In a previous post, that was an issue with the Vintage Valise Journal.

So i had emailed Tim, and he suggested this process. What I wanted to ensure, was that I wouldn't loose the integrity of the embossing when ironing the embossed glassine to a base.

As you can see in this closeup, the raised dots remain in tack! The Glossy Accents smooshes down and literaly will begin to melt and adhere within 10 seconds. Remember it's a CRAFT IRON, you're not pressing a shirt (who DOES that?)!

Pretty Sweet!

The technique on the lower half is shown today by the lovely Miss Tammy Tutterow on her blog. She calls it the FROSTY DE-BOSS! But she was working with snowflakes. I wanted to see how it worked with a different folder (I tried 3 different designs) AND Rangers Crackle Accents (because frankly, I'm getting a bit ticked with the Distress Crackle Paints). AND my Distress Crackle Rock Candy was JUST about empty and I really didn't want to crack open a new one!