Finding Inspiration

Hello Friends, Happy Wednesday!

I hope that this post finds you well..

Who else has been watching Tim Demonstrate techniques every Saturday? After each one I am so excited to run up to my room and get busy playing and..oh. my. goodness….the tags have been piling up!! In fact, that giant stack of tags is what prompted this project. That and an awesome tutorial for a tag book that Paula posted on her blog last week.

You see, since the start of the Tim demos, I have been playing with the techniques on #8 tags. The pile began growing and I’d been thinking that I should make a little book with them, and low and behold, Paula posted her tutorial! It was meant to be…

To see the details and instructions for the tag book you can pop over to her tutorial HERE.

Paula’s book is beautiful and was just the inspirational push that I needed, so I got busy and began making one for myself.

To create the book, I gathered the tags that I created after this past Saturday’s demo and began making! Tim demonstrated a few different techniques as he always does, but one of my favorites was one where he used Distress Translucent Grit Paste with Distress Glazes. He called it a Molten Glass Effect. You can check out his demo HERE. While playing with this technique I had one of those “what if” moments that Tim always talks about.

I did the technique, spread on the translucent grit paste with a palette knife through a layering stencil, while it was wet, sprinkled it with a few different colors of glazes, then let it dry. Then, I embossed it with my heat tool. But I took it a step further and wondered what the area would look like with a little metallic highlight. I did that with the help of Ranger Vintage Foil Sheets.

Two of the tags were used in the book. The blue flower and the gold tag.

The floral tag…

To create the tag I started by spritzing a #8 Mixed Media Tag with water then spritzed on Chipped Sapphire, Frayed Burlap and Frayed Burlap Oxide Sprays. I dried it with my heat tool and dripped some water onto the tag and dried it again.

Using a palette knife and the translucent grit-paste, I spread the paste through the Floral Layering Stencil THS077. Then with my fingers, I pinched little bits of Antique Linen and Hickory Smoke over top of the paste, tapped the bottom of the tag to move the glazes around, then set it aside to dry. When the paste was dry, I melted the glaze with my embossing gun and then let it cool down.

When the paste was dry, I melted it with my embossing gun and then let it cool down.

 I selected a couple pieces of foil sheets from the Foil pack.

 I heated up small areas of the glaze, then lightly tapped and ripped off the foil to leave little bits randomly on the flowers. Only heat up small areas of the glaze. Add the foil and then move on to another section.

Please be careful doing this part as the glazes get very hot. 

Check out that texture, blend of color and shiny goodness…YUMMO!!

And here’s the gold tag…

It was spritzed with water, Pumice Stone and Brushed Corduroy, then dried with a heat tool.

I added translucent grit-paste through the Flames Layering Stencil THS091 and sprinkled with Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain glazes, tapped the bottom of the tag to move the powders, then set it aside to dry. When it was dry, I then embossed with a heat gun.

I melted the glaze and then applied the foil in random areas.

I created more backgrounds using a variety of techniques and then began arranging the book using Paula’s tutorial.

To embellish the pages I used…

Sizzix Scribbly Butterflies, Tag Collection and Bouquet, idea-ology photobooth photos, vintage buttons, lace, ribbon and a variety of stamps and stencils that included, Label Frames CMS264, Vines & Roses CMS298, Field Notes CMS396, Trellis THS074, Crate THS089.

I’m very grateful for all those that share their work, techniques and creativity to inspire others..this book is a little bit Tim, a little bit Paula and a little bit me.

Thank you so much for stopping by today… see you soon!

Creatively yours,

Stacy

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Gather Your Supplies-

Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous-Label Frames CMS264, Vines & Roses CMS298, Field Notes CMS396, Layering Stencils- Trellis THS074, Crate THS089, Floral THS077, Flames THS091

Tim Holtz/Sizzix- Tag Collection, Scribbly Butterflies, Bouquet, Vagabond,

Tim Holtz/Tonic- Tonic Guillotine Paper Trimmer, Tonic Shears

Tim Holtz/Ranger- #8 Mixed Media Tags, Translucent grit-paste, palette knife, distress glazes, Vintage Foil Sheets

Tim Holtz/ idea-ology- Photobooth

Distress Sprays- Pumice Stone, Brushed Corduroy, Chipped Sapphire, Frayed Burlap, Frayed Burlap Oxide Spray

Distress Ink- Walnut Stain, Chipped Sapphire

Distress Tools/Mediums- Distress Sprayer, Media Mat, Heat it Heat Tool, Blending Tools, Distress Collage Matte Medium, Foam Tape

Other- Lace, Ribbon, Vintage Buttons, Sewing Machine, Thread