TIM HOLTZ 2016 JANUARY TAG

Tim's 2016 January Tag

Here is is ...

Another year to make

TIM's TAGS!

This makes me excited!

Yes... A NEW YEAR...

A NEW START

and

A NEW BEGINNING.

Right now things are happening in

my life for my oldest son

that will be LIFE CHANGING!

So taking a little bit of time

to be creative gave me some

much needed down time.

For my tag I kept the same base

with the foil tape at the top and

luckily I had the same 

texture fade, which I LOVE!!!
I also added some walnut stain
distress ink.

But after that I started making 

changes.

Here is My JANUARY 2016 Tag:

I have always wanted to use the 

cracked pistachio distress paint on a frame

 when I saw Tim use it last year in January.

It is such a beautiful color.

I used his Ornate Frame die and cut it out

using chipboard and black cardstock.

I glued them together and then

dabbed the cracked pistachio onto the 

black cardstock.  I thought it was 

going to be really smooth, but it gave

me a mottled effect which I just 

loved.  It looked like marble.

After that dried I applied 

glossy accents.

I then rummaged through my 

scrap bin and found some paper

that appealed to me to put behind 

the frame.  This was going to be my 

clock base.  I ran the paper through

my Vagabond using the Ornate Frame

die. I used the inside oval part to glue

behind the frame.  I then used the game 

spinners...a large and medium...in the 

center of the oval and attached them with 

a paper studio pearl brad to turn this frame

into a clock. 

I just want to say that I was really liking

this outcome.  

I then found 4 very small pearl bling,

and glued one at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, and

9:00 on the clock.

I then picked out a word band.

I chose:  THE JOURNEY AWAKENS

THE SOUL.

I chose this one because of the Life

Changing Event that we are praying

takes place for our son.

It really just seemed to FIT.

I attached the word band with some

black seam binding.

I don't know where my black twine was

hiding ...but I couldn't find it anywhere.

I found a silver/pearl heart charm in my

stash and some ribbon.

Then I used the Tabs and Tags die,

and along with the mini numbers made

a mini date tag.

I opened the heart charms jump ring and put

the date tag through it and then 

put the ribbon through the jump ring

and tied the ribbon at the top of 

the tag.

All done!

OH I JUST LOVE THIS TAG!

 My craft time is over way too soon for me.

I hope that the next time I am able to visit my

blog that I can share some really happy news

about my son.

I am really pleased with the outcome.

I hope you like it too!