And More Bookmarks

More Christmas and Halloween bookmarks.

These on #8 manila tags, using  black rub-on's,

 Distress Stain and rubber stanps.

Finished off with colourful ribbon,

and ready to go at Art Girlz in Autumn, 

Sunday September 28 10-5 here in Morro Ba

at Altered by the Sea Studio.

Holiday Bookmarks

More bookmarks for the upcoming show - 

these done on black tags with white rub-ons.

Sort of a chalkboard effect - 

great contrast between the black and white.

For Halloween and Christmas and available at 

Art Girlz in Autumn at the end of the month.

Tag Sets

Christmas tags 

Busy making sets of tags for our upcoming Art Girlz Show.

 Paris Tags

Six tags in each set, usually 2 of each style.

 Tickets

I used Distress Ink and techniques from Tim Holtz,

 Dia de los Muertos

and then a variety of rubber stamps.

 Faces

Great for presents,

 Autumn

seasonal and fun.

 Vintage Travel

Just add "To" and "From"!

Halloween

All set for Art Girlz in Autumn, Sunday September 28, 10-5.

Last of the Tags

Perfect Splatter Distress

 And here are the last of the tags from
Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry  classes.

 Perfect Distress

I've been using many of the techniques in my daily journal,

 Perfect Distress Mist

and it's been a lot of fun to try them out
 on different paper and surfaces.

Rock Candy Distress Stickles

Thanks for "tagging along" through all these posts!

A Few More Tags, Part 2

 Crackle Paint Resist

This one has a great texture, love the way the stains

go into the cracks in the paint.

Shattered Stains Technique

Hard to see in the photo, but the chipboard crowns

actually came out looking like shattered glass.

You can get a better idea from this close-up.

Nostalgic Batik Technique

Another resist using embossing powder and  Distress inks.

A Few More Tags

Distress Embossing Powder Resist

Working my way through the last several 

tags in Tim Holtz's  Chemistry 101.

Rusted Enamel Technique

With my sometimes now limited energy I've found 

tags the perfect small "canvas" to work on.

Distress Paint Resist Technique

And, I'll have all these cool technique under

 my belt to use on bigger projects in the future!

Final Tags - Part 2

I feel a sense of accomplishment that I finished 

making a set of 2 of each of the tags for Chem 102.

 I love many of the techniques I learned and it was 

lots of fun to try out products that were new to me.

The above two use a technique called "Chalkboard" - a black tag embossed with Antiquities Frosted Crystal Embossing Powder, then rub regular chalk over it and work it in with your fingers - Voila! - it really does look like a chalk board.

These two use regular embossing powder 

and ultra thick embossing powder on

 chipboard crowns to produce a pitted metal look. 

I've put them all on a BIG key chain

and pasted the technique details on the back - 

a handy reference to return to!

Final Tags - Part 1

Finishing up the last four techniques in
Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 102.

 Above and below - "Rusted Distress"-
 using Distress Embossing Powder to give a
rusted metallic look to chipboard, cardstock, etc.

Also used the Distress powder with 

layering stencils on the tag backgrounds.

And these two use clear embossing powder
(on a black painted tag) that is then lightly painted over,
the paint is scrumbled off and leaves a "Shabby Chic" look.

Check in on Monday to see the last two sets of tags!

Tag-Tastic!

Two more techniques using alcohol inks.

 These two tags, on glossy cardstock,
 were swiped through several colours of ink,

 including a gold metallic, and then stamped.

 I love the marbled effect and the way
the metallic shines through.

 These, again on glossy cardstock, used several

 colours of ink, dabbed on with a blending tool. 

Then laying down a stencil and using the tool with
 blending solution to fade out some of the ink.

Again I want to do more with alcohol ink
so I can perfect some of these techniques.

Tag-a-Lama-Ding-Dong

A couple more tag techniques.

The first, using alcohol inks to add colour to metal stampings,

 and adding patina.

The second, on glossy cardstock, using three related 

colours of alcohol ink -

 a bright, a light and an earth tone,

to create an ombre effect.  This is the first time I've worked with alcohol inks, I look forward to doing more and getting a better feel for what they can do.

Tag-o-Rama

A couple more techniques from
Tim Holtz's Creative Chemistry 102.

The first, called "Smudge", has you stamping on one tag and then without reinking, stamping on a second tag and then smudging the images with a blending tool.  The second tag has sort of a ghost image and looks delightfully worn and distressed.

And this one uses Distress Stains and a brayer to lay them down.

It gives an interesting background that
works well with the stamped images.