I love my Distress Markers and I love seeing what people are doing with them. Tim Holtz has a series he does that is called 12 tags of 2013. As usual, he has
an excellent post this month. It is filled with great techniques for using his
distress markers. He even uses distress inks and stains. Tim always has
loads of details and photos to make recreating his techniques
amazingly simple. It you'd like to see him work his magic click here.
After seeing Tim's post I decided it's time I got busy myself. I had a wonderful time lost in the world of creating. Between checking the directions on Tim's blog, trying the techniques and starting over a few times using different stamps, I lost track of time.
I followed along but used different colors and stamps. The Butterfly stamp I used is available in the CMS146 Mini Blueprints 2 set. The quote is from Tim's CMS mini classics 062 and the quotes on the background of my tag are from various Tim Holtz stamp sets. All of his stamps are from Stampers Anonymous.
I did dress my finished tag up a little. I added some Idea-logy pieces and used some Distress Paints on the ARTFUL token and the spinner, the chain tassel is attached with a brad and the ribbon is altered with distress paints and stains. I've seen these techniques on Tim's blog before and enjoyed trying them out. The hardest thing was waiting for the paint to dry on the metal.
13 comments:
What a lovely tag!
I love your tag!
Gorgeous colors on your tag! And as for waiting for paint to dry - I have a desk full of wet things at the moment, ho hum!! (trying to be patient)
I love that purple color and I love the way you used it throughout the tag! this looks fabulous!!
This is so beautiful - Tim definitely knows how to pick winners - congratulations on your well deserved win
cool! love your take on Tim's tag! Congrats on your win on his blog :D
Love the colours you've used, great tag congratulations on your win x
How pretty! Love the purples! Congratulations on your winning tag!
Beautiful tag ... love how the colors on your background makes the image sing! Congrats on your win.
-- Mary Elizabeth
Congrats on having a winning tag! I love your colors!
Wow! I love your tag! I love how you painted the coin and arrow. And the purple is so pretty! Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving a sweet comment! :)
Love the purple theme! Congratulations!
Oh, this is so pretty! Congrats on the win!
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