No. 6 for Christmas, 2022

I used a Found Relative, a stamp (Mundo Holly, Ellen Hutson), printed tissue paper, scrapbook paper, a Remnant Rub, and glitter glues to make this tag.

I'm linking up to Simon's Monday challenge for this week's "Tag" theme.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.

No. 4 for Christmas, 2022

I took inspiration for this tag from the cover of a vintage magazine (see it here). I traced the ornament design on watercolor paper and tinted it. I messed-up the background so I had to cut it out instead. It was pasted on Tim Holtz Christmas papers and embellished with Stickles.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.

No. 2 for Christmas, 2022

Posting another Christmas tag today, this one inspired by a lovely make from Emma Williams (see it here).

The background is a scrapbook page, the wreath was hand-cut from cardboard then heat-embossed with metallic powders and trimmed with Stickles. 

I used vellum inside the frame that was lightly distressed with inks on the backside and stamped with heat-embossed text. The scroll is a Remnant Rub.

The holly was die-cut from watercolor paper using a Tim Holtz set called Mixed Media Christmas. After tinting with inks, I used a clear medium and Rock Candy dry glitter to give it some sparkle. The berries were made dimensional with Glossy Accents.

The border was machine-stitched, darkened a bit with distress ink and embellished with more Stickles.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.

My Name is Salt

Motivated by Simon's challenge this week (Inspired by a Movie), I've made a tag to share a most memorable documentary recently enjoyed that you might like too.

The film is called "My Name is Salt." Their website describes it this way:

Year after year, for an endless eight months, thousands of families move to a desert in India to extract salt from the burning earth. Every monsoon their salt fields are washed away, as the desert turns into sea. And still they return, striving to make the whitest salt in the world.

The cinematography is excellent and it's a good one to watch when you need something very mellow to relax with.

 “My Name is Salt” is available online worldwide:
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mynameissalt2

Additionally, it’s out on Amazon Video @ http://www.amazon.com and http://www.amazon.co.uk

For views from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, go to
https://www.trigon-film.org/…/vod/collection/My_Name_is_Salt

Regarding my tag, I tried to interpret the film as best I could. I made a stamp-resist background with clear embossing power and a variety of texture stamps, Distress inks for tint, an image transfer, gold paint dots along the border and a touch of Clear Rock Candy Distress Glitter.

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.

Daylight Dreams

Sharing a greeting card today that was an experiment using a white Uniball Signo gel pen (first time using one). After stamping (Simon's Sunshine Flowers) with gray archival ink on a scrap of Tim Holtz Paper Stash (Memoranda), I filled-in the image with the pen then applied tinting over the top.

The gel pen ink isn't waterproof so I had to isolate the layer with an aerosol acrylic medium. Tinting became more challenging now that the paper lost it's absorbancy but at least the white ink didn't run.

I glazed over the image with some original, liquid Clear Rock Candy Distress Stickles (unfortunately, no longer available) and it provided a nice sheen with subtle glittering (very vintage) and also darkened the colors. The text is a Clippings Sticker.

Would I use this technique again? Yes, it's much easier to use a pen over a paint brush to fill-in detailed stamps like this one. I did use a permanent fixative for the isolation coat because I didn't have the "workable" kind so next time I'll try the later to see if there's a difference when it comes to applying color over the top.

I could just use markers, colored pencils, etc., but what I'm seeking is a nice white background when stamping on pre-printed paper so that the colors will pop.

A side note on Clear Rock Candy: I recently bought the dry form that comes in a jar that is sprinkled over any wet medium. I plan to do some experimenting but I'll be hard pressed to replicate the very liquid, easy-to-spread medium that you just squeezed out of the applicator bottle it originally came in.

Ranger doesn't make any of the liquid Distress Stickles any more but, believe it or not, I still have usable bottles that haven't dried out over the years like the non-Distress Stickles do. They came in squeeze bottles with a larger opening on the applicator tip and since I kept some of these empty bottles, well, stay tuned....

As always, I hope this post finds you well and happy and I appreciate your visit.

Until next time, take care.