A Forgotten Post

We were challenged to make projects with Shrink Plastic for the Inspiration Emporium.

I hurried and did mine, but forgot to post it after the IE blog did the roll out....so here from Minnesota comes the Shrink Plastic Card....Girls Rule!

This was really a collaboration of several products, but it turned out very different than what I'd been doing.

The card itself is sprayed with Turquoise Spray Ink.

It's stamped with a Dylusions stamp, a dotted background stamp, and Archival Ink...white dots are added with a Posca pen.

The black tag is embossed, sprayed with Perfect Pearls, and trimmed. Then more white penwork is added.

The white doily is painted with acrylic paint then Vintage Photo Distress Embossing Powder is added. Lastly I spritzed with more Spray Ink.

Then the black pen adds some markings for contrast.

The Shrink Plastic pieces are lightly coated with Gesso, dried overnight, and then stamped, cut out, and shrunk with a heat tool.

You can punch a hole before shrinking or use Drill Punch after to add the jumpring for the butterfly.

Add markers or inks with a brush for a hint of color.

They're all layered onto the card and a pink Crinkle Ribbon bow is added to the top of the tag.

Vintage card....done!

Linda

Products Used:

• Tim Holtz - Stamper's Anonymous - The Girls,  and Papillon
• Tim Holtz -  Alterations Texture Fades Embossing Folders - Burlap and Swirls
• Tim Holtz - Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo, Crinkle Ribbon, Drill Punch
• Dylusions Spray Inks - Black Marble, Vibrant Turquoise
• Dylusions Stamps - Bordering on the Edge
• Ranger - Jet Black Archival Ink, Clear Shrink Plastic, Black #8 tag, Perfect Pearls Mist- Heirloom Gold
• POCSA - pens/white and black

Graphic 45 Featured Artist!

 

I am so honored and thrilled to be the Featured Artist today on the Graphic 45 blog.

 

They have always, always been so good to me, but today they really made my heart sing.

 

Thank you to Charee for setting this up and Kelly for all her patience.

 

Check it out here.

 

And take a peek at the new collection - Place in Time!

 

Ya gotta LOVE it!

 

 

Linda

 



Trying to Keep it Simple - A Simple Tag

I like to make what I call a "simple tag"....layers of colors, stamps, pen ink...and a couple of 3D pieces.

 

So I started with a new #12 manila tag. Sprayed with Dylusions Inks.

 

The cool thing was, I sprayed these colors over a piece of paper I'd previously sprayed with Copper Perfect Pearls....hence...when I flipped it over to blot it....a bit of copper adhered itself to the tag. LOVED it!

 

 

 

 These are some of my FAVORITE stamps of all time that are again available from Stamper's Anonymous.

 

Priceless TREASURES!!!

 

 

 

I used Black Soot Distress ink and embossing powder on all these images.

 

 

Different parts of the tag before I added the white pen marks.

 

I loved it without anything else....but I had to add a bit of white.

 

I glued it to a piece of black chipboard for stability.

 

The 3 pieces of laser-cut gears are from Paper Whimsy. The top one is Distress Stained, the other 2 are painted with Liquid Pearls. Then stamped with Archival Ink.

 

The colors are bright...and perfect when they run together.

 

White pen marks are so much fun to add here and there to break up the color.

 

 

 

 

The green gear is a bright eye catcher in the corner breaking up the white pen marks.

 

I have always loved this stamp...I'm so glad I finally got to use it. Classic!

 

Be Well and Be Good to each other!

 

Linda

 

Products Used:

• Ranger - #12 Manila Tag, Jet Black Archival Ink, Liquid Pearls Hydrangea & Key Lime
• Dylusions Spray Inks - Fresh Lime, Crushed Grape, Vibrant Turquoise, and Squeezed Orange
• Tim Holtz - Distress Ink - Black Soot, Distress Stain - Broken China
• Tim Holtz Stamps - Classic Favorites SCF 01
• Paper Whimsy - Fancy Cogs 01
• Uni-Posca - white pen
• Fine Black Embossing Powder - Unknown