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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Spring Tag-Tim Style

I have been trying so hard to go through and organize and purge my craft studio that I have not had any time to play and create, so I took the time today to make a spring tag for the AllThingsTim yahoo group challenge that Della from IBrakeForStamps gave us. I used my new Distress stains for the first time. Love them! I also used some liquid applique that surfaced in the "dig" for the rabbit. Fun stuff. I found lots of clear packaging that I couldn't bear to throw away and trimmed them down into a managable pile and decided to use some over my stamped butterflies. I stamped in black stazon onto the plastic and then colored with my Copic markers from the back side. Important-back side, ask me how I know! They don't play well together. i then stapled the butterflies onto the stamped images with my tiny attacher. When I heated the liquid appplique, the butterflies began to shrivel and bend and fold, so I took a paintbrush handle and shaped them how I wanted them and colored underneath them with markers, then smeared a bit of picket fence stickles onto that and a bit on the plastic butterflies as well. Made the body with a streak of Black Stickles. This was a fun tag to make and am glad I saved that packaging now.

10 comments:

Netty said...

Terrific tag, love your rabbit and butterflies. Annette x

Tolegranny said...

Very cute. I love that bunny stamp.

Terry said...

Love the rabbit! Fabulous tag!

donna said...

ME too! I love that bunny and your butterflies are terrific! Don't envy you with the sorting task. I spent 6 weeks doing that and it's already a mess again.Donna

Lori said...

Awesome tag, Kathy, love that liquid applique on the rabbit! And those butterflies are cool!

Deborah Mahnken said...

Love it!

Candy C said...

Aww...this is so Springy! LOVE your bunny and butterflies! I love that liquid applique technique! <3 Candy

Minxy said...

Sweet tag, you should enter it for the artistic stamper spring themed challenge :D

Hels Sheridan said...

Fabby tag! Lovin that ickle wabbit... thanks for joining us at the Artistic Stamper challenge

Artyjen said...

Well done for using some packaging it looks great as wings :)
I've got loads in the loft still to use!!! LOL
Thanks for playing at The Artistic Stamper this month
xoxo Sioux