Simon Says: Add Some Red

Here a tag for 2 challenges:

1. Add Some Red on the

Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog.

2. Make a project with the 2012

paint resist technique in the

Tim Holtz Addict Facebook Group.

As i do not have the white paint (now I need it!!)

I used white embossing powder after I stamped

the hearts and the text with versamark.

After the embossing powder was heated I colored

my tag with candied apple red oxide distress ink.

The heart and the love are cut out with dies

by Stampin'Up!

Here you see the finished tag all done up.

I used the rosette and the Valentine tiny

envelop on top of the heart.

"YOU"was cut out one of the alphabet strips and

the borders were added with stapples to the tag.

In the middle if the strips I added waxed black thread

with some red glass beads between knots.

Thank you for looking and 

have a creative day!

Tim Holtz August tag: Dragon Fly

After all the Creative Chemistry

it is now time to make mAugust tag for 

the 12 tags of 2016 on Tim's Blog.

This is also the place were you can find all 

the technique tips on making this tag.

Here is my tag and this time I used stamps 

from ART NEKO.

I love the more brighter colors that I chose this time.

For the background of this tag, 

festive berries and mustered seed 

distress stains are the colored.

On top a Asian text stamp with archival black.

Then with vintage photo and

waterdrops the background is finished.

After die cutting the honeycomb from a piece of 

bookboard (and colored with festive berries stain)

these Asian papers were also die cut with the honeycomb

die. This time the insides are used and distressed with

vintage photo distress ink.

On top you see the dragonflies.

They are embossed with Judy Kinns Chamaleon

embossing powder. This gives a blue glow and

that is exactly what you see when they fly around you.

As a text i used a poem that you can find here.

Stamped with archival black and  cut into lines.

Finished of with a little sewing after punching some holes.

Thank you for looking

and have a creative day!

Tim Holtz July tag: Baby

Here is my July tag

for the Tim Holtz Blog.

Another fun combination of techniques.

You find all about it on Tim"s Blog.

Here is my tag, something totally different:

a baby tag.

No particular reson, just liked to make it.

It is a blue stroller, so the tag is for

a baby boy. Baby ribbons and a little

star hanging from the ribbons.

Cute as a button, right?!

and the little feet are woodsies.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day.

Summer Coffee lovers Blg Hop: Day 7

Yesteday I shared with you this booklet and part

of the inside. Today I have 2 more pages and tags.

If you missed it, have a look HERE.

Have you been to the main blog post of the

Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop?

There you find all the info on how to

upload your project and might be able to win 

one of the fabulous prizes from the Super Sponsers.

The tag in this envelop is my variation on the

June tag for Tim Holtz challenge of the 12 tags,

so these pages are decorated with the cup

from Tim's die.

IThe cup is cut with the die and I was able to position

it so that I cout use it for this tag. Behind the cup I added

a piece of Club Scrap Hypno Vintage paper.

The background is a rubber stamp by Tim Holtz.

On the top of the tag you find a little coffe spoon charm.

The bottom part of the tag in a close up.

The bottle cap has a bean stamp from Club Scrapand a sentiment

from Newton's Nook stamp set.

The sentiment is a dymo font that I printed with the

computer. You can download this font free

from dafont.com.

And the other tag is made with the free images

from Verve Stamps and those you find HERE.

Here is the decoration on the

envelopes. For this I used two different

Tim Holtz stencils and a white inkpad.

And this is the festive tag finished,

but iIhave a little step by step how I did it:

I used these two stencils: the stars and the stripes,

a babywipe and two colors of distress ink.

So add the ink first to the tag. Either with the

direct to paper technique or us ablending tool 

to color the paper. Lay the stencil on top

and remove ink with a baby wipe. 

This is the result after the stencils 

are removed. When you heatit wth the heatgun

the white becomes even more visable.

Print the images and color with distress ink

or distress stain and a paint brush.

Here you see a close up of all the images.

The sentiment is cut out with a punch and

als adding some ink to fit in. The ribbon is colored

with distress stain and the topof the coffee cups

have a little glossy accent to make it look like plastic.

Thanks again for looking and come back for

the last tag in my book tomorrow....

the last day of the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop.

Tim Holtz 12 tags May 2016:Crazy Cat

Here is my version of the tag for the

Tim Holtz Blog

12 tags of 2016

for May.

If you want to see all the techniques

that were used please go to Tim's blog here.

For this month I wanted to use my crazy cat stamp

and it worked out perfectly for this tag. I even found

a little ribbon in my stash with cat paws.

The butterfly is cut out of metaland stamped

with it's matching stamp.

To make the tag more dimentional I used the rosette

die,for i do not have the tattered rose.

The labelis stamped with a sentiment from 

an old SU! set with the same name.

The flowers are punched out of  decorated kraft paper

and fastened with a brad. This was a fun tag to create.

Thank you for looking.

Have a creative day!

Tim Holtz tag of April: mosaic cups

So I haven't been around for the 

tags much this year...so many other projects to do,

but I did not want to muss out on the

April tag(maybe doing the others

another time) For all the technique

explanations please go and see all the

details on the blog of

Tim Holtz.

This month I just love the mosaic technique

and from my birthday money I bought one

of these mosaic kits with all the essentials to

do the technique. It works perfect!

Although I loved Tim's bird too,I decided

the cups were also great for this technique

and why not a tea theme this time

(yes, I do drink tea too!)

This is the background I made for the tag

(using the original technique with stamping

with acrylic paint that works as a resist).

The splatter and the coffee ring are 

Tim Holtz stamps too. The are from set

mini muse CMS063 (coffee rings)

bitty grunge CMS089 (splatter)

I love the arrow with the tea bag, it looks so cute!

I think there are many moments people collect over 

a cup of tea or coffee,don't you?!

And here are the cups. The are cut with the Sizzix 

Tea Time die. I colored the groud with 

faded jeans distress ink to give the cups a blue 

background.

Thank you for looking!

Have a creative day!

Tim Holtz December 2015 tag

Inspired by Tim Holtz 12 tags

this is my December tag.

You find all the tutorials for this tag

on his blog HERE.

As I do not celebrate Christmas, I made 

a New Year tag,wishing you all

a very Creative and Inspirational 2016!

I decorated the burlap background with the coffee ring 

stencil and vintage photo spray ink. The coffee

cup die and snowflake are all by Tim too.

The bow is made with the bow builder paper punch

by Stampin'Up!. Happy is a die I have to make

happy new year,not sure which brand it is.

The real coffee beans are glued on the burlap with

hot glue and the tag is fastned with staples.

Thanks Tim Holtz for a wonderful  year of tags and

techniques. Hope this goes on in the next year.

Thank you all for allways looking and your

wonderful comments!

Have a creative day!