She Who Stamps & Scraps

Travel Tag

These  blues are dreamy... I started with a piece of Kraft Resist paper and glued it to manila cardstock (Ranger). Painted with gesso and then sprayed with two of Dyan Reaveley's new ink sprays.

Added some black Archival ink over stencils and a few 7 Gypsies stickers (I know, I said the S- word, and stickers very rarely show up here, but with 7 Gypsies they appear timeless.)

The small round tag up top is from Tim's Sizzix tiny tags/tabs die. I added a black button to it plus stamped "Go!" before putting on a few drops of black Enamel Accents (Ranger) to hang it.  

The black letters are Tim's Sizzix Carnivale die.  I roughed up the edges of the tag and inked with black Archival Ink.  The "enjoy the journey" brad is from My Mind's Eye and the plane is a Tim Holtz stamp.

Used my Crop-o-Dile to get that big black eyelet set.

I'm putting this into two challenges:

The Artistic Stamper - Travel

Our Creative Corner  - TicTacToe - I chose this line: blue/brad/button

Click on the tag to enlarge.

Thanks so much for visiting.  Have a great weekend!

Marjie

Added Note:  Ooops, that plane is indeed UPSIDE DOWN.  Oh, well!  

Creative Scrappers Sketch 192

I made this layout based on the following sketch from Creative Scrappers:

I used Basic Grey papers, 7 Gypsies tags, and my Cricut for the stars.  Lots of Color Wash and Distress Inks from Ranger. The dark red border edges are the remnants from pages torn from a watercolor pad, spritzed heavily with Cranberry Color Wash.  I also painted over all the tags and scraps with watered down Color Washes.

Thanks for the visit.  I hope you have a great weekend!

Marjie

PS - if you're new here be sure to look at the top of the page for a chance to win two great books by Tim Holtz!  Prize drawing will be Monday, February 6th.

Twelve Tags - Day Twelve

Day Twelve!  Well a great big thanks to Tim Holtz for doing the tags again this year and to Mario for all the fun behind-the-scenes stuff. I've had a lot of fun playing along, improvising, and learning new things.

Today's tag has a very cool background using tissue paper and stamping.  I didn't have a porcelain Nora like Tim used so chose a similar sized person stamp... this one is by Stampington. The stamp has 5 solid stars but I substituted and punched stars from a piece of stamped paper.

Loads of distress inks on this tag and Tim's cloudy blue paint (Ranger).  The topper is a Maya Road calendar chip. WISH is a Sizzix alpha die of Tim's, and the naughty/nice is a 7 Gypsies stamp.

I promised a winner today from my Saturday giveaway... she is Donna Jean Eno...

 

Donna Jean Eno said:

I love your tag! I started my tags but am far behind. Hoping to catch up this weekend. Thanks for sharing your tag with us. Also thanks for a chance to win the album.

 

Donna Jean, please send me your mailing info and I'll get the album right out to you.

Thanks all, for the visit!

Marjie

Twelve Tags - Day Eleven

I loved the shrink plastic video Tim Holtz shared here today.  I have a melting pot but haven't used it enough, and didn't know some of the tips he shared, so that was a big bonus for me in today's tag.  

Tim's tag was a lot brighter than I tend to go for, so I decided to do my own thing.  I chose a combo of green distress inks and followed along with his technique with H2O on glossy cardstock.

I cut one of his ornaments (Sizzix) out of shrink plastic and shrunk it in UTEE in the melting pot, then colored it with alcohol inks.  The hole I punched closed up, so I ended up drawing a string to hang it from the top of my tag.  

The snowman stamp is Tim's (cut out and popped up on foam tape) and the other stamps are 7 Gypsies.  Inked around the edges with black Archival (soot smeared too much on the glossy paper) and that's it.

Only one day left...

Marjie

Twelve Tags - Day Nine, 200th Post, and a Giveaway

This is my 200th post!  I remember last December talking with one of my sisters saying I was thinking of starting a blog... in January I did... it's been a great year in blogland!  For today's tag I followed the background technique Tim Holtz shares today for Day 9 of the 12 Tags of Christmas.  I used evergreen bough, bundled sage, and gathered twigs distress inks.  The ornament is a Dina Wakley stamp that I attached with Tim's hitch fastener and a 7 Gypsies #9 alpha paper clip.   The letters are Tim's grungeboard inked with the gathered twigs and heat embossed.

Where Women Create is having a fantastic celebration right now with loads of artists featured, each of whom is sharing a giveaway.  They've encouraged readers to donate something to the cause and I'm putting up a brand new chipboard "Believe" album by Bo Bunny.  These books are great with their graduated letters... super fun for the holidays. To win, just leave a comment and be a follower. I'll draw a winner on Monday and I'll ship anywhere.

That's it for now.  Don't forget to check out all the eye candy at Where Women Create. 

Hope you're having  a great day!

Marjie 

 

 

Twelve Tags - Day Eight

Tim chose a steampunk theme for today's tag, #8 of the 12 Tags of Christmas.  I have been amassing some steampunk stamps and was psyched to pull them out.  

My stamps today are by Tim Holtz, 7 Gypsies, and Artistic Outpost.

Inks are walnut stain distress ink plus the new winter set by Ranger (iced spruce, festive berries and gathered twigs) plus black Archival.

Diecuts are the weathered clock and gadget gears by Tim and Sizzix.

Paints are silver and white dabbers by Ranger.

Inspiration Emporium has something special going on over on their blog related to the 12 Tags.

Thanks for popping by.  Have a great day!

Marjie 

Twelve Tags - Day Three

Two posts in one day... unheard of!  But I want to keep current on Tim's challenge and so far I'm 3 for 3.  I'm having a good time keeping up!

Tim Holtz has a great background technique featured on his blog today, Day 3 of the 12 Tags of Christmas.  

I don't have the stamp or folder he used, so I modified using what's on hand.  I inked the tag with a mix of distress inks, stamped Tim's sheet music stamp in black archival ink, then ran it through the same embossing folder.  

I added some goodies from my holiday stash but couldn't find a ribbon I liked for the top.  I spied a scrap of the  7 Gypsies paper I had used on yesterday's card and realized the browns and tans and reds in it would go well with the tag, so I cut a strip and inked it up, then folded into a matchbox shape and attached with my tiny attacher.  I folded the edge first and punched it to make it a bit more finished.  

Thanks for visiting.  See you tomorrow!

Marjie 

OCC - Sketch Challenge

This week at Our Creative Corner we have a sketch challenge for you from our host, Wendy Janson.  I used 7 Gypsies papers on mine.

I cut the circles and sentiment from the Cricut George & Basic Shapes cartridge.  The notebook border strip is an EK Success punch.  The little tag is also 7 Gypsies and the word is a stamp.  I added a few black metal photo anchors and brads, and edged everything in black soot distress ink.  Here's Wendy's challenge sketch:

The challenge is open through midnight on Friday, December 9th.  Please pop on over to the OCC blog to see what the design team has come up with.  Everyone is welcome, and any type of paper craft works.  Hope to see you there!

Marjie 

Twelve Tags - Day One

For stampers the holiday season came into full swing today when Tim Holtz started his fifth annual Twelve Tags of Christmas.  

He puts a ton of time into twelve days' worth of ideas, projects, inspiration, and giveaways.  It's fun every year and also leads to using your 'stuff' more, as he reminds us of the cool things we can do with various products and techniques.

This year I'm fully embracing the 'make it your own' attitude Tim encourages in all of his posts. His tag today included lots of silver glitter.  Not my thing.  In years past I would've done it anyway, but now I'm okay with making substitutions and have something more suited to my taste.  It's funny, I tried going with grey embossing powder instead of the sparkly silver, but it was still shiny and just not my cup of tea. Once I decided to just wing it, it all came together quickly.

I cut the tag from blue Coredinations paper on my Vagabond, then followed Tim's embossing technique (which I love, and which was new to me) using his snowflake embossing folder and Versamark.  I went with chipboard alpha stickers (K & Co) and added my own bling as a combo of Tim's banner die, his leaf dies, an EK punch, and a 7 Gypsies stamp.  I sprayed the seam binding with H2O and Iced Spruce distress ink, then hung a few gingle bells from the ribbon using jump rings.

See you tomorrow for another one!

Marjie

Wendy Vecchi Challenge ~ Thank my Lucky Stars

This week we're using Art Parts and at least one Studio 490 stamp in the challenge at the Wendy Vecchi yahoo group, and stars at both Simon Says Stamp and Show and Sunday Stampers.

My Art Parts are the rectangle base and the row of 5 stars.  I covered the base with Bo Bunny Paper that I had stamped with Wendy's shooting stars stamp in wild honey distress ink.  I liked that the BB paper had a scalloped design like some of the other Art Parts I considered using.  

I used my Cricut and a small star punch, 7 Gypsies gaffer tape, Prima's black pearls, wooden words from Li'l Davis, and my Crop-o-Dile to set eyelets from which to hang Tim's ball chain.  

I stamped the wooden words with two of Wendy's large background stamps in Timber Brown Staz-On, and colored the little white bead letters with Butterscotch Alcohol Ink.  

I really like the weight and stability the Art Parts give to the project, and I love the contrast of the thick wooden words with the rounded pearls.

Thanks for your visit!

Marjie