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Saturday 25 May 2013

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:

maytag
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

16 comments:

  1. Hi Rachel well I must admit I much prefer yours to Sir Tims - don't tell him!! Susan x

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  2. Love this gorgeous tag.xxx

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  3. Beautiful tag Rachel. The colours look fabulous. Enjoy your Day. Hugs Rita xxx

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  4. Fabulous work Rachel, what wonderful colours. Tags appear to be all the rage just now, there's lots of them popping up on the blogs, must have a go myself.
    Have a great weekend, Kate x

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  5. I love this tag Rachel, such lovely warm colours.

    Sue x

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  6. Love the tag Rachel, my sort of colours

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  7. Fabulous tag Rachel, lovely rich colours.
    Pauline
    x

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  8. Scrummy tag Rachel, very much my king of thing and colours.

    Hope you have a lovely weekend.

    B x

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  9. Gorgeous tag hun, love the colours and the stamps you have used, fabulous arrangement. I meant to email you yesterday, my card and stamp arrived yesterday afternoon, thank you so much hun, you have no idea how much it did brighten up my day <3 thank you
    Lindsay xx

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  10. Well done, love the colors and elements you added!

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  11. Love your take on the TH tag! Fabulous color choices.

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  12. Fabby Doo Rachel !!

    hugs Diane xx

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  13. Hi Rachel, I am in love with your gorgeous tag! The colours are amazing and loving the run-ons too. Need to get a wiggle on with mine...... Hugs, Anne x

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  14. oh gosh Hun,this tag is amazing the design,the colours stamps brilliant love it too bits,
    bless you for your comment hun,and for staying with me all my love hugs Cherylxxxxxx

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  15. Love this Rachel! Fab tag.

    Susan x

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  16. gorgeous Tags I think the first one is my favourite Carol x

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