12 tags of 2013 August

12 tags of 2013 August involved traveling and masked stamping techniques. 

I made 2 tags, as the first one was again a bit of a miss. I started off with stamping the masking sheet with one of the gentlemen from the Time Travelers -set and the boat TRAIN (boat? what on earth?! that is a bit embarrassing) from the Travel ways -set. The first background I made was with Vintage Photo and Picket Fence.

Here's where I went wrong: the Picket Fence impregnated through all my stamping, and muted all of the colors, even the black Archival. The effect is actually quite interesting, but not what I wanted. I did however finish the tag:

My second try was with Pumice Stone and Rusty Hinge, and this time everything went much better. I left out the train and instead masked the "Cabin Class Stateroom"-stamp in addition to the gentleman. I tried to experiment with more colors in the background as well, but it is almost invisible - there's Fired Brick and Peeled Paint as Distress Inks. The large compass -collage stamp is from the Layers of Life -kit from Unity Stamps.

Here's a comparison between the 2 tags, which shows very well the effect the Picket Fence had on the whole tag. I get a huge Jules Verne-wibe from the toned down tag, hence the "Around the world" text.

Combined challenge, vintage butterfly

Here's a card I combined multiple challenges on, which of first three are new to me:

Kreativ Scrapping #8 calls for bingo, where I choose søm-blomster-embossing (sewing-flowers-embossing)
Vintage udfordring 64 calls for card/tag with butterflies
Card and Scrap #59 calls for everything goes
and finally, everything is based on my all time favorite challenge
Mojo Monday sketch 305

Layered papers are mostly from Tim Holtz French Industrial 12x12 stack, with the stamped image on Ranger manila cardstock. The flourish-patterned paper is from a dollar-store and it had some glittery embossing on it at the edges (you can see this on the die-cut butterfly). I machine sewed the back panels in place with some heavy quilting cotton thread.

The butterfly image is from Unity Stamps Layers of Life june 2013 -kit, stamped with sepia Archival and embossed with clear embossing powder. I used multiple Distress Inks in brown shades to color the manila cardstock after embossing and sprinkled it with water. The flourishes are stamped with coffee Archival and the edges are distressed with Frayed Burlap.

The diecut butterfly is Simon Says Stamp's Chrissy and the little roses are made from white watercolorpaper by punching out flowers with my old small EK retro flower punch and then gluing them together. The tutorial can be found on YouTube:

Mind you, just buying them from the store saves you a lot of time, but I didn't have any small roses at hand... I sprayed them with Lindy's spray and with some Tattered Angels, added some Antique Linen DI and topped everything with Cinnamon Stickles. A little less sparkle would've been great but oh well...