Under the Wire

What a week...not nearly enough time in the Fun Room. Since I have you know, 7 or 8 hours left, I thought maybe I should actually finish my Tim's 12 Tags of 2012 March offering. Like most things I try that Tim suggests, I love the mosaic technique...can't wait to try it on things other than flutterbys. But then again I have my April calendar page to finish (okay and start) and all the Creative Chemistry to catch up on, and tags to make for our April Class at Stamp Cache in beautiful downtown Palmer....and all the other ideas whirling around in my brain!

I bought a couple of wood blocks at Michael's a while ago and since Tim was using a wood grain stamp I thought why not try doing something with wood? First block I tried I used a dark stain on. Mistake. Big Mistake. The next one I started with Shabby Shutters, Broken China, and a bit of Dusty Concord Distress Inks blended together. Oops. Too dark. Picket Fence Stain to the rescue!! Love that stuff.

I am seriously in love with just about all things Dyan Reaveley these days, especially her leaves which come in stamps and stencils. So i popped a few stamped images on the bottom in Bundled Sage, and then broke out the Perfect Pearls. I mixed some copper with water on my craft sheet, painted a bit with that and then Sour Apple. Finally to add a darker color I used my Lucsious Lime Smooch. For the 'branch' I used part of an glassine elegant flourish.

I tried a couple of different embossing powders - the top one is Tinsel Bridal which came out well and a copper color I like alot too.

Finally here's the tag as Tim presented it...we'll probably do this in class, but I like to present another option too.

Back up to the Fun Room!

Day 9 - Double Embossing

Or how yellow makes Festive Berries look orange...

Doesn't matter though, I still like the way this one turned out. Of course I didn't have the Hero Arts background stamp Tim used, but I did have a beautiful Anna Griffin tile stamp I used for the background. I used Evergreen Bough as the first ink color, which I then embossed with clear powder. Very shiny. Next I inked the entire card with Festive Berries and embossed it again. I might have over baked it, because I got some little white bumps, but I didn't let that stop me. Walnut stain and Tim's distressing tool finished the edges. Note: if you don't have the distressing tool, consider the investment...it does a fabulous job.

I got the idea of the yellow light in the street lamp from Annette Green - thank you very much Annette. (Check out her blog - she made Christmas ornaments out of the tags - WOW). It's just some yellow alcohol inks on glossy paper. I think I used a combination of Lemonade and, and, well, some other shade of yellow.....

Each year in Palmer, Alaska we celebrate Colony Christmas, a great old fashioned festival in mid-December. A couple of years ago we hatched the idea of using evergreen boughs, white lights and big red ribbons on all the street lights which look very similar to this die cut. It looked great. And our lamp posts are shiny, so I made mine shiny too with Glossy Accents.

And to finish it off I found some small gold embellishments that were just perfect. Hmmmm. I love the Fun Room.