TIM HOLTZ 2016 JUNE TAG

Tim Holtz 2016 June Tag

Here it is....Tim's FABULOUS FATHER'S DAY TAG

for June.

Follow this link to Tim's Blog for his tutorial on 

how to make his tag.

http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2016-june/

OK so I am looking at Tim's Tag and thinking...

what to make..?????..That is the QUESTION!!!!!

I put on my thinking cap and thought about what June means

to me!  Father's Day, Vacations, SUN, Heat, Cookouts,

Oh...... and my ANNIVERSARY!  For our 30th Anniversary,

my hubby bought me a Jeep!  We "love" our jeep! We get up early 

and go for a ride, "with the top off of course" ...no direction...just get

up, brush teeth, throw on clothes and go....It has given us sooo much fun!

Mmmm ...Maybe I could do something with this.

I didn't have a "Sizzix Jeep Die!"

(that's because there isn't one ...that I could find anyway)!

As a matter of fact...as I got to thinking...I really didn't have

much of anything to symbolize a Jeep. But...I was going to

try....so if I need help with a place to start, I always go to 

"images" on Google.  

I found a great image of a jeep and copied it

into a word document, sized it to fit on a tag

and printed it onto heavy cardstock....

Now I can begin!!!!!

At this point, I was thinking, I could cut out the tires,

 for the technique using the stencil. 

Trust me....It was not a good idea..So I decided to 

go ahead with getting the tag ready for a design and then

I would come back to this part later.

I only had regular tissue paper...but you never know 

if it will work unless you try it...So I used my Ranger

Archival Ink and stamped a map image several times

onto the tissue paper. Then I used this Amazing Distress 

Vintage Collage Medium onto the tag first..then put the

tissue onto it...scrunching it up....be careful...it can tear!

 I am in "LOVE" with this product.  I love the look..gently 

aged....it looks kind of like the coating on leather to me.

Next apply the medium on top, dry it with your heat tool

and cut off the extra tissue.

I was still trying to figure out the stencil design.

Doing the actual tires was NOT going to work...

I was thinking "TIRE TREAD!"

Then I looked at the tag and thought...Cut the TAG...

not the jeep...and that is the point where I was able 

to move forward.

So using this die I cut "tracks"

into my tag...This is where I thought I could 

stencil the track pattern underneath so it would

show through. 

 The pattern is just too large to

work for me.

What do I have that will look like tire tracks???

AHHHH.....Haaaaa....

WASHI TAPE!!!!!!

PERFECT!

As you can see my jeep fit right on those tracks.

I stamped a quote... found some gears and at this point

I was thinking how am I going to get my main idea ...

"ONLY IN A JEEP" on here???

I also stitched a center dotted line...

After  I did it..I thought that should have been "WHITE!"

....but the black will do!

Mmmmm back to the quote...

My girlfriend and I bounce ideas off of each other 

all the time when we SKYPE...and she brought up the license plate idea.

When I was getting out supplies and embellishments for 

this project...I got out my liscense plate die...but it was tooo

large for this project, so I kind of set that idea aside.

Maybe I can do something with that.

I thought I will just try to make a smaller one.

She suggested "ONLYINAJP"

on the plate....

but since I already had Jeep on the windshield (made

out of letters from Tim's Typeset die).

I put "ONLY....NA" what I needed on the plate!

What would I do without my girlfriend????? 

 

Here's my finished tag......

 

2016 June Tag

I found the compass charm on Etsy...Perfect!

I don't know about you.....but I am ready for

a "JEEP" ride!!!!!

Here are the rest of the supplies I used to create this tag:

Thanks for visiting ....and as always....

feel free to leave some "SCRAPPY LOVE!"

TIM HOLTZ 2016 MAY TAG

Tim Holtz 2016 May Tag

It's TAG TIME

 Tim's Tag is soooo BEAUTIFUL. 

Here is the link to Tim's tag and the directions on how 

to create it:

/http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2016-may/

However... I didn't have this stamp or the spoon or the

 TinyTattered Florals die.  I have lots of 

stamps, but I am not into buying images of people.

So I knew I would really have to think about what I was

going to do with this month's tag. I didn't really want to

do another photo tag of my mom...I already have several 

of those....MMMMMMmmmmm what to dooo????

Going through my stamps really helped me here.

I found this one stamp that I had purchased  that

had this beautiful child's face on it.  Yep...it's what I am going with.

Here is my Month of May Tag.

You are right ....this tag has NOTHING to do with

the month of May... I just went with the 

creative spirit.

See the beautiful child's face on the stamp....

by Inkadinkadoo Moon Baby # 94106

When I was making this tag...I had no idea what the name 

of this stamp was.  I thought....this is so sweet and the face is so round

like the moon....I thought...."Love you to the moon and back"....

I looked at it and it made me think of another

stamp set I had which I will share with you further into this post.

I really had to stop thinking about Tim's pretty tag so I could

focus on creating something totally different.

So following Tim's directions I applied my washi tape.

 

Here's the To The Moon stamp set.  I purchased this awhile back

from Simon Says Stamp. I partially stamped the images onto

the tag with Ranger Archival Black Ink AIP06633.

Now to apply the modeling paste.  

It doesn't take much.

Here is a close up of how well

the modeling paste went through 

the SPECKELS stencil.

The distress ink colors were an easy choice.
Sticking to blue, pumice stone and
some white!

Today I was being really lazy.  I just took a large bag and

set my tag in there to spray... I may do this again.  I had 

enough ink left in the bag to put my ribbon in there and get it all inky.

I do not like to waste my colors. LOL!

 Ohhhhhh....it's looking soooo Pretty!

 Here are the colors I used.

 Let's dry this baby....

  Does this have the look of the moon surface...

I have never been there but I have heard of a 

"BLUE" moon.

 Lots of little ink drops still in this bag.

Just enough for my Tim Holtz Crinkle Ribbon.

Time for the final embellishments.

A little charm to dangle from the ribbon.

A label for the word moon.

Some distress ink for the edges and
a few stitches on the sewing machine to look
like shooting stars.

A tiny tab for Tim's Tiny Types "to the"

Chitchat word stickers #TH92998 

(black and white).

I cut the tab out of paper scraps.

(I was tooo lazy to even get out my mat...
I just used some old chipboard)
Time for a little more ink spray.
I just unscrewed the top and shook the straw
part of the sprayer over the tag.
I really like the way this "DROPS" onto
the tag.

I blotted the excess off of the washi tape.

Ta Da.....ALLL DONE.

Can you still read it????

LOVE YOU to the MOON!

I was trying to get the pretty shimmer in this photo.

Here's my "MOON" Tag for the month

of May.

Hope you liked it!

Thanks for stopping by and leave some

"LOVE" if you want!

BEACH LAYOUT

BEACH LAYOUT

In 2011 Fancy Pants came out with an

awesome paperline called Wavesearcher

that I fell in LOVE with.  I immediately had

to purchase everything that went with it.

 "YES" I was CRAZY..

in LoVe with this paper."

One of the reasons I had purchased this line

was Nic Howard created this AMAZING 

layout using it and I knew I just had to 

make it tooo......

 

Nic Howard Layout 

Finally after five years I got around to making this 

fabulous layout.

I just loved making it. So much fun. 

 

I was so excited to have finished this layout.

I will share with you what happened to it.

I was trying to finish it and of course it was late at

night.  (That's the only time I get to myself when I'm

not interrupted).  The last part for me is the journaling.

I should have waited until the next day, but I wanted to 

FINISH!!!! Imagine picking up something to write with

and not looking at what you picked up and HORRORS....

it was NOT the right pen....

anyway....if I had waited I wouldn't have had the 

problems that I did.  It ended up being OK...not what

I wanted ...but the important thing is ...MISTAKES 

are FIXABLE.  If I had to ....I would have trimmed 

around the layout and put it on another 12x12 paper.

 So here is my LO ...almost finished.

 

Here's my mistake....AHHHHH!!!!!!

 Trying to repair......

 

It's going to live....and so will I.

Relief!

So I have two boys and now I wanted to make a 

matching LO for my youngest son.

Here is his LO:

 

Because these photos are horizontal I went vertical with the

chipboard layer. 

To start this layout I used Tim Holtz Rays Stencil THS003. 

I used Tim Holtz Mustard Seed and Wild Honey Distress Ink on the 

stencil fading the color as I moved toward the edge of the paper.  

I just moved the stencil around the page applying ink

get the look of the rays.  

 The sun is cut from the Sizzix Blazing Sun die. 

I cut out all the pennants and stitched them just like I did

on the first layout.  The surfboard at the top is made from 

Echo Park Christmas Light Die Set EPPDIE72

There is a small image to the right of the Wavesearcher

Journal spot that looks like an eagle. It came from the BoBunny

Cambridge Paper line. Just a little scrap I had in my stash to add

some interest. I set it on top of some scratch paper from the collection

       using the Fiskars Teresa Collins Scallop Circle Lever Punch.

  In the bottom left corner I used a new die I purchased on

Scrapbook.com

The die is from Kaisercraft Fishing Net DD745.

I just LOVE it.

I think it was the Perfect addition to the layout in 

the lower corner.

No mistakes journaling on this layout.  Now I have a

layout for each son to keep.

Thank you Nic Howard for the inspiration!!!!