Frilly & Funkie: Art Journal Page

This week at Frilly and Funkie our challenge is to use tags in unusual ways and include a Halloween or Autumn theme. Any altered tag project is welcome, as long as you do something a little different and include the seasonal theme. There's a $25 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique for a random winner, and a blog badge for the design team favorite. I hope you'll join us!

I recently took a class with Julie Fei-Fen Balzer and was inspired by a page in her journal where she embedded three tags like this. (Incidentally, if you can ever take one of Julie's classes.... do!  I've taken several of her classess both online and in-person and have never been disappointed.)

I cut off half a page and laid the tags onto the remaining (still in the book) piece at varied depths. I then glued the cut-off half page back on top, sandwiching the tags. Then covered everything with gesso. After brayering over the solid part of the page, I weighted it down and let it dry overnight. 

     

I adhered Tim Holtz's Tissue Wrap to the whole page and spritzed Color Wash in some places. When it was dry, I stamped and stenciled with Ranger's Distress and Archival inks, then tied on Tim's Idea-ology word charms with burlap string. I'm joining the Ranger distress ink challenge with this project, too.

I stamped the witch onto plain white tissue paper and adhered her with matte medium. Before adhering the house (stamped on manila and colored with Distress Markers), I inked all the edges with black paint and coated the whole page with matte medium to dull the shine from the alpha stickers. The arrows are rub-ons and I also added some ribbon and a decorative paper strip.

Can't wait to see what you'll do differently with a tag this week... pop on over to Frilly and Funkie to see all the design team samples, and join us for this fun challenge.

Marjie 

 

Products used:

Tim Holtz idea-ology Tissue Wrap - Terminology	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplates Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Halloween Silhouettes	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Markers - Set of 37
Burlap String - 12 Colors	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Stencil - Letter Jumble (9x12)	Dyan Reaveley′s Dylusions Stencil - Dotted Flowers (9x12)	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Crushed Olive	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap
Ranger Archival Ink - Vermillion	Ranger Archival Ink - Olive	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Archival Ink - Sepia
Adirondack Color Wash Dye 2 Ounce Spray - Lettuce	Adirondack Color Wash Dye 2 Ounce Spray - Butterscotch	Claudine Hellmuth Gesso	Ranger Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool-With 2 Blending Foams

Comments

[Brenda Brown]

Fabulous, ingenious and superbly put together. Such inspiration.
hugs {brenda} xox

[Barbara Ford]

This is too aweseome, and thank you, thank you for the instructions you give here. Is it the black-inked edges of the tags that make them look three-dimensional (looks like heavy shadows behind them)? LOVE this!

[Dorothy]

I so love this!!!

[Stacy]

Love, Love, Love this page!!!! A very creative idea to use tags.

[Eileen Bellomo]

My favorite kind of piece....artistic AND witty. Love the sentiment, and a great technique with the tags.

[Kathy Eddy]

Very cool page! I love the Wizard of Oz, so this struck home with me.

[Beverly S]

Absolutely fabulous! The technique is great and the finished project is awesome - AND it totally made me laugh out loud!

[Lynne Moncrieff]

Where would we be without shipping tags in our lives?!
Clever use of them Marjie and just love your end result. Cannot help but chuckle at the sentiment,.
Another cool piece of art from you.
Wishes
Lynne
P.S. It would have been fun to have you on a play date this afternoon as I was using Gesso, Spackle and stencils.

[Linda K]

this is fantastic Marjie!! I'd love to one day be able to take a class with Julie. I did take her online stamp carving class and found it to be a wonderful fist online experience!

[Nicie Ibarra]

Beautiful!!! Thanks for the laugh! :)

[Silvia]

Just fantastic, love the colors and the images. Thanks for the step by step photos.

[Annie]

Absolutely brilliant idea Marjie. What do you use to adhere tissue paper ? Hugs Annie x

[Lisa Sackett]

This is so cool and unique! TFS the tutorial on how you did it. I had to look more than once. ha ha... aweSome!

[Sharon]

Wow what a great idea!! Love it!