After that, I wasn’t totally sure what I was going to do, and then I had a brain f**t! Why not use one of those steel rule word dies I had been “hoarding” and cut the word “DREAM” into the bottom left of the card? So I practiced and it worked so I applied it to my tag. Oops!
This series of challenges, based on the contents of Tim Holtz's book, Compendium of Curiosities, VOl. 3, is hosted by Linda Ledbetter from her blog Studio L3, and she is assisted in this challenge by a design team of eight talented artists, two stores and the team of Tim Holtz and Mario Rossi II. Linda and the design team put together their interpretations of the bi-weekly challenges, the stores offer gift certificates for winners in alternating weeks (challenge #26 challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique) and Tim and Mario have donated a cache of goodies form which another prize is assembled.
The rules are simple:
• One must work from the book and not reveal Tim's techniques (If you don't have the book, you can get one from Tim there 's still time as there are still challenges left in this series!)
• You need to link your creation to Linda's blog
• You need to visit the design team's blogs and leave comments on their interpretations.
This week’s challenge is to implement the technique described on Page 42 of the book: “Smudge Stamping”. My intent was to make a simple background with this technique using stamp from Tim’s “Daydream” (CMS 179), “Papillon” (CMS 106) and “Paris to London” (CMS 160) sets and the Distress Inks “Black Soot”, Vintage Photo”. “Stormy Sky” and "Firebrick Red” on an “Antique Linen” background.
The rules are simple:
• One must work from the book and not reveal Tim's techniques (If you don't have the book, you can get one from Tim there 's still time as there are still challenges left in this series!)
• You need to link your creation to Linda's blog
• You need to visit the design team's blogs and leave comments on their interpretations.
This week’s challenge is to implement the technique described on Page 42 of the book: “Smudge Stamping”. My intent was to make a simple background with this technique using stamp from Tim’s “Daydream” (CMS 179), “Papillon” (CMS 106) and “Paris to London” (CMS 160) sets and the Distress Inks “Black Soot”, Vintage Photo”. “Stormy Sky” and "Firebrick Red” on an “Antique Linen” background.
This is what happens when you aren’t paying attention to which way the die has to go to read right-side up and sideways! So now i had destroyed my tag! Back to the inks and the stamps to recreate the tag as best I could on another tag (although I no longer had one of the same type of paper so the texture was totally different). I then layered this new tag on a third tag of French blue cardstock and then positioned the damaged tag, minus the backwards word, on top of that.
But now the tag is basically three layers of cardstock thick and more like a cover than a tag! Why not a travel journal made of tags? Not that I have any plans (or hopes of plans) for visiting Paris, but once starting with the Parisian theme, it made some sense!
(Given that I was thinking travel journal for my Challenge #25 tag, I must be getting itchy feet, and given the predominance of French themes in my entries into the challenges this year, it may well be I have a hankering for Paris! Who knew that crafting was a form of psychoanalysis?)
So I stamped and inked and rubbed on remnant rubs and added pockets with mini-tags and other bits and pieces from my stash and created four tags, attached them with a ring decorated with a red ribbon (which seems to have disappeared in teh following picture --- take my word for it, it's there!). There is room for journaling, photos, souvenirs (and new tags can easily be added if more “pages” are needed):
(Given that I was thinking travel journal for my Challenge #25 tag, I must be getting itchy feet, and given the predominance of French themes in my entries into the challenges this year, it may well be I have a hankering for Paris! Who knew that crafting was a form of psychoanalysis?)
So I stamped and inked and rubbed on remnant rubs and added pockets with mini-tags and other bits and pieces from my stash and created four tags, attached them with a ring decorated with a red ribbon (which seems to have disappeared in teh following picture --- take my word for it, it's there!). There is room for journaling, photos, souvenirs (and new tags can easily be added if more “pages” are needed):
Here's a slideshow of the pages so far...
Products used were:
- Stamps: "Daydream" set, "Papillon" set, and "Paris to London" set from Stampers Anonymous; “French Flight” set from Alterations;“Wish You Were Here” set, and “Parisian Plaza” set from SU!
- Inks: Distress Inks - Black Soot, Vintage Photo, Stormy Sky, Firebrick Red, Antique Linen and Vintage Photo; India Ink Black
- Markers: Distress Markers Stormy Sky and Fired Brick; Micron Pen Fine tip (black)
- Papers: Authentic “Abroad” Collection (“Route” paper) and miscellaneous scraps of card stock in white and blue
- Remnant Rubs from “Words” and “Life Quotes”
- Ephemera: Salvage Stickers (“French Industrial”), Authentique “Abroad” collection pockets, tags and die-cuts; Word Bands (“Observations” and “Words”); Muse Token (“Journey”)
- Fibers - Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Trims
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