Tims Tags 2013: May

Good Morning to one and all in blogland! I do hope you are well and happy. I'm on a course today - first aid refresher for my rainbow leader role - so I'll keep this short and I won't get around to visiting until later!!! I've finally managed to get hold of my TH remnant rubs - I ordered them around the 12th of this month when I couldn't find any for sale at the happy stampers - I was advised on Weds that they would be out of stock for a while so I reordered from a different company and got them the day after - much better service - thankyou country view crafts! Anyway - here's tims tag:

and here's what I did:

I decided to go with a bit of a mathematical theme with the numbers and the compass - I think they work well together. So I added the remnant rubs to my manilla size 8 tag - they were easy to use - no troubles there. Then I added distress stains (shabby shutters, spiced marmalade, worn lipstick, peacock feathers) to my mat and swooshed the tag through. I did the same with my ribbon. Then I dried my tag with my heat gun and when not fully dry I spritzed and flicked with water, dabbed with a papertowel then finished off the drying process. I then added DI (fired brick) with cut and dry foam mostly around the edges of the tag. After that I stamped the word voyage in archival black and wiped off where it went over the remnant rub. Then I stamped the compass in archival black and heat set. Finally I added the bird and the Live that was cut from a TH ticket.

I'd like to enter this tag into the Tim Holtz 12-tags-of-2013-may challenge.

Back tomorrow with news of last night - I ran a workshop for the senior section at guides - the brief was using diecutting machines - I'll show you tomorrow what we did!

Thanks for dropping by and big hugs!

Rachel xx