Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey

It is Tag Friday, as well as announcing our Winner and Pinworthies over at A Vintage Journey today and some of  the Creative Guides (DT) have some tag  inspiration for you.  Please do pop over and have a look, they have some wonderful tags to inspire you! 

The current challenge at A Vintage Journey was chosen by the very talented Chris who chose 'Time Flies' as her theme and it still has a week to run.  For my tag I have decided to stick with the theme that Chris chose and I have made a 'time traveler' tag.  I keep seeing advertisements for Dr Who, who is returning to our television screens this month and I may have had that in the back of my mind.......  here is my finished tag:

As a rule I do not plan my tags, I just start and see what I end up with but on this one I had a good idea of how I wanted it to look and so I gathered my bits and pieces together.  I took some of Tim's latest release of Eclectic Elements fabric and cut a tag with Tim's tag die, stitched this to a No. 8 Manila tag and tied some of the waste fabric at the top.

I did change my mind and left the butterfly off and added some cogs instead  I added the Weathered Clock in black card and the man is a sticker which comes from the French Industrial Salvage Stickers collection.  I inked around the edges of the tag with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

I added a pediment, another of Tim's dies to the bottom and attached a ticket from one of the Ephemera sets for my time traveller to 'stand on.

Thanks for looking, I do hope you will go over HERE and see what my lovely teamies have made.  Hope to see you soon.  Hugs, Anne xx

Compendium of Curiosities III - Challenge #3

Hello everyone and a huge welcome to my latest followers, it is lovely to have you along on my crafty journey!

Thanks to everyone who left such lovely comments on my last post about joining Team ATB at the Artists on the Block, it really means a lot to me.

The challenge at CC3C, run by Linda Ledbetter, of Studio L3, is to use Tim Holtz's Faux Tea Rose Technique as outlined in his Compendium of Curiosities III, page 65.  I cannot describe the technique in this post as you must use your own personal copy of Tim's book.  If you do not yet have a copy of the book you can buy a signed copy direct from Tim Holtz himself.

The Curiosity Crew (who have created the most wonderful projects to inspire us) will be choosing a winner and that lucky person will win a fabulous collection of Tim goodies, kindly donated personally by Tim and Mario!  This fortnight the challenge iseven numbered and will therefore be sponsored by Inspiration Emporium who are generously awarding a $50 voucher to spend in the shop to one randomly selected individual.

I had some of Tim Holtz's fabulous Eclectic Element fabrics left from a previous project so I decided to try making the tea roses from the fabric (backed with Kraft card) and I am really pleased with the way they turned out.

The base card is Kraft and I matted some French Industrial paper on top after distressing the edges with a distressing tool and applying Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to the edges.

After making the roses I edged them with Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink to give them an aged look.  The leaves are cut from the greenery strip die and have been painted with Evergreen Bough and Peeled Paint Distress Paint.

I used Tim's large pocket watch die to make the frame which was painted in Gathered Twigs Distress Paint and then Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint was applied over the top.  The picture inside the frame is one of Tim's Found Relatives.  I love this beautiful picture of the young couple setting off on their married life together - I have conjured up all sorts of stories in my mind about them.

I added some of the remaining strips of fabric and burlap which I plaited and added an Idea-ology heart to the top with a tiny bit of twine tied in a bow.

Thank you for looking, I hope to see you again soon.  Hugs, Anne xx

I am entering this into:

Compendium of Curiosities III - Challenge #3 - Faux Tea Rose Technique