A Little Bit of Vintage Style

Ingredients:

1.    Red plaid tissue paper
2.    Various Graphic 45 Fashionista paper
3.    District Market Tissue Wrap
4.    Distress Inks: Fired Brick and Vintage Photo
5.    Ideology Tissue Tape
6.    Black Craft Foam
7.    Core'dinations Kraft Core Paper
8.    Ideology Kraft Resist Chipboard Letters
9.    Jute
10.  Faber-Castell Gelatos : Blue Metallic and White Metallic
11.  Ideology Frame Corners
12.  Rangers Glue and Seal
13.  Water in a Mister
14.   Blank Canvas 8X10
15.   Sizzix Tim Holtz Dress Form Die Cut and Machine to cut with (Vagabond is my choice)

Directions:

1.    Tear the tissue paper, Fashionista paper, tissue wrap and find a pattern that you find suitable to you.  Once you are happy with the pattern start glueing it down with Rangers Glue and Seal.  Set it aside to dry.

2.    Take out your die cut machine and get ready, this may not be an easy step because even with the power of the Vagabond its not the easiest in the world.  Sandwich your plates, die cut and craft foam together and run it through your machine.  I did try this several times to make several buttons but did not end up using them so I may use them at a later date.  Never throw anything away.  Repeat step with Kraft Core Paper.

3.    Sand Kraft Core Paper to your liking and glue together with craft foam.  This will give the dress form a lot of dimension and a little depth since it is black.  Set aside and allow to dry. Repeat with button and thread. Add jute to thread.

4.  Cut out Fashionista cards and decide how many and which ones you like and would like to use. This may prove to be the hardest part.  I know I said before pushing the craft foam through the Vagabond was hard but Really??? Isn't this paper beautiful??? LOVE it!!!  Once you have made your decision cut them out and distress them with Fire Brick Red.  I splashed a little water on mine as well to give it a little more distress and weathered look.  I then added a little Vintage Photo to give them a littlle more depth. Set these aside.

5.  Decide what you would like to say up the side of you canvas, the only obvious choice to me was "Style".  Of course, you may be more poetic than I am or want your name or something on there. So remove the letters from there package and distress away.  I find it best that you take a soft towel and wipe the resist area once you are done so it looks crisp. Once the letters are ready, glue them to the canvas.

6.    Now comes the fun in my opinion, take out your Gelatos and just go crazy.  You can do anything you want with them: put them on your craft sheet and paint them whereever you see fit or like I did just color all over the canvas then mist the heck out of the canvas and work it until you are happy. I am loving these and I seem to be using them a lot lately.  Remember to dry your canvas with your heat gun every now and again so it doesn't get too wet. 

7.    Add tissue tape around the edges of the canvas.

8.    Place everything on canvas in a pleasing manner. Once you are happy--glue it down.

9.    Add corner.

Thanks for stopping by!! I did this blog entry a little different because Simon Says Stamps Vintage Challenge is Show a Recipe using Torn Edges, a Button and Wings.  Well I have all those things in this project.  You may ask me wheres the wings--look at the wing backed shoes.  Its a stretch I know --but I have never been one to stay in the box.  If you are interest in the the challenge check it out here:

                      Simon Says Challenge

Olde To Tim

While many of us follow Tim, I have had the distinct pleasure to take several class with him over the last two years.  As Linda posted in her blog, he is truly amazing and can fill the room with so much excitement about this wonderful craft it will take your breath away.  At times, I think it takes his breath away. So when I saw this weeks Grungy Monday Challenge, I thought it might be fun to get inky but had to put some thought into it.  How do you celebrate THE MAN????  I mean really??? THE MAN??? How???


Well when I thought about it, I thought I would merge his world and mine. Hearing him speak several times, I have heard him say more than once -- "he is living the dream."  Man, what a dream it is.  How many of us would love to get on that boat and ride along for just one day??? I know I would-- AMAZING.  And we all have to remember life is short-- it passes us by before we know it.  I watched my mother pass away at a very young age and it reminds me to live life to its fullest.  So I ask myself-- am I doing everything I can to really LIVE life everyday???  So I added a perfect Tim stamp quote on shrink plastic "Life is what happens while we are making other plans."   Thank you Tim-- I am no longer making plans, I am doing it.  I have attached this to Tim's stamp "Pierre LM Gaudette Druggist" because I am a pharmacist by day (or night I guess I should say.)

And lastly I added an Ideology heart that I added some gold alcohol ink to represent Tim's heart of gold.  When he is talking about his work, you can see how much he loves what he does--why else would he put up with all the fans.  This man must never sleep.  Thanks for keeping us all inspired and helping me find my way.  Now, I can keep this in my bedroom and see it everyday to keep me inspired to work a little bit everyday to reach the goals that I am working toward. Thanks Linda for a great challenge!!!

Sayings To Live By

I am in love with this stamp set I picked up at The Scrapbook Page in KC the other day and when I looked the most recent challenge by Simon Says Stamps I thought it would only be appropriate to make it center around the recent holiday and this saying is perfect.

I took my Festive Berries Distress Ink and smeared it on my Rangers craft sheet then sprayed it with Biscotti Perfect Pearls Mist and smeared my tag to soak up all the color.  It's hard to tell by the photo but the tag has alot of sparkle because I used a lot of Perfect Pearls Mist on the kraft sheet.  Once the tag was dry I edged the tag with Pumice Stone Distress Stain. I stamped the star images from a Wendy Vecchi stamp set and the saying was from the same set.  I stamped the saying from the same set. 

Thanks for stopping by and remember to check out everyones creations at

Simon Says Stamp

Tara

What A Way To Bring In The New Year

Happy New Year to everyone!!! I hope you are enjoying today as much as I have.  My family brought in the new year with family and friends--no better way to celebrate another year.  I can not believe how fast time is flying.  While in the last year I made a change on the work front to be at home with my family more I am still not getting as many blog posting done as I would like--maybe this should be a new years resolution. However--we all know what usually happens to those.

I went to Kansas City the other day to meet up with my best friend Ang for a scrappin evening and I purchased up some Art Parts that I could not wait to use.  I used a large flourish a base and two of the small residences along with a vintage ruler I found at a antique store a few months ago.  I colored all of the Art Parts with Rangers Archival Ink and Tim Holtz Distress Ink.  I stamped some of Wendy Vecchi's images on some grungeboard to create some flowers to create a scene on the flourish board.  Instead of using her flower for one of the flowers, I used some of Tim Holtz's Tissue Wrap.  For the second flower, I layered tissue tape on grungeboard and painted it with Rangers paint dabbers then stamped the flower image on it. 

Hope you like my entry for Mrs. Linda's Grundy Monday this week.  Check it out here because you could win a great prize from Simon Says Stamps just look:

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If you need more inspiration, go to the man himself Tim Holtz

http://www.timholtz.com/


Now for my creation

Thanks for stopping by!!

Tara

Christmas Tag #3

Tim Holtz Tag #3

Tim went back to one of my favorite techniques for tag #3 this year.  He used Cut and Dry Foam by Ranger, Archival ink and Distress re-inkers to make a custom stamp pad. I love doing this and when I saw this particular stamp when on his cruise this fall, I knew I had to have it because it would be perfect for this particular technique.  Who knew he would use it on the 12 tags.  Now as far as running the tag through the Vagabond with the embossing folder--I'll have to work on it.  Mine was a little off kilter. 

So if you missed Tim's tag you can find it here:

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Now here is my tag.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Tara



Tim Holtz Tag #2

Tim Holtz Tag #2

Tag #2 may be all I can get done today.  I have to go get some Christmas shopping done. So I thought I would be a posting done early before I leave on this dreary December morning.  Tim Holtz's tag used wonderful kraft resist paper which I absolute LOVE!!! You can see Tim's tag here:

Tim_Tag_#2

Now I had to order some kraft resist which is what put me behind on doing the twelve tags.  I have looked for the holiday kraft resist everywhere but come up empty.  Originally I tried to create my own kraft resist with some embossing powder and Tim stamps.  It did not work as well as I wanted it to so  I just waited for my online order to arrive. 

When making tag #2, I made several changes some due to not having the product and some due to creative differences.  The changes are as follows:

1. I did not use the large reindeer --because I didn't have it and when I placed my online order I forgot to add them to it.  (Oops)
2. When I made the small reindeer I used some glittery paper rather than sticky back canvas because it was sitting on my desk (oh who am I kidding) it was on the floor beside the Vagabond. And I thought it would look good.
3. For the bottom trim, I had some pre-cut chipboard by Little Yellow Bicycle that worked out perfect.
4. When looking around my studio, I saw some liquid pearls, I have honestly never really used these. However, I picked up some up a few weeks ago when gearing up for the 12 tags and now that I've used them--I LOVE them. So I took the chance to use them rather than the brads.   

Hope you like my tag!!! See you soon for tag #3.

Tara

Tim Holtz Tag 1

Tim Holtz Tag 1

Well several days after Tim Holtz -- master of all talents has started and I have to say finished his tags. I finally have Tag 1 finished and now I'm finally ready to post it. Now if you have been living under a rock or something and missed Tim's original post for Tag one you can find it here  Tim_Tag_1 Now I wanted to make my tag a little different so I used a rose colored kraft core paper rather than the ice blue.  The other main difference that my tag had was when I made my Noel I used a black foam craft piece and painted it silver and covered it with glitter.  This added a lot of dimension to my tag.  The dimension is hard to see by the picture but its really cool.  See you soon for Tag 2.

Tara