Tim Holtz was using his plastic Fragments to make his ornaments, but of course I don't have any of those, so I used the UTEE charms technique instead. He stuffed 4 ornaments on his tag, but it was a little crowded for me. He also had a nice rub-on for his sentiment. I thought I could stamp one, but the distress ink on the bottom bled through. I tried going over it with a white gel pen, but the distress ink bled through. Next, I tried white acrylic paint, but the distress ink bled through. At that point, I gave up. I knew I couldn't emboss white over the gold, the two would melt together. What else could I do?
I'm pretty proud of two things on this card, though. I made the pine branch out of a punched tree (Thanks, Cat!) cut in two, and I drew in the needles with stickles. Secondly, I made my own "german scrap" by coloring a paper doily edge with a leafing pen.
3 comments:
Juliet, you did a great job on it. Our Michael's is getting in a lot of Tim Holtz supplies. If they have these little plastic thingies, at least you could save 40%. I won't use UTEE or anything with Suze W's name on it. I won't help put money in her pocket.
Evette Rice
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Goodness, you must have been frustrated with all your attempts only to end up with bleeding. Your UTEE charms worked out well. I've never heard of these charms before. Sadly, I have no access to any of Tim's products here in Sarnia. 3 stores, and no one carries Tim Holtz products.
Your efforts for all of the issues you had with this tag surely paid off- beautiful job! Glad you stuck with it. I love the home-made German scrap- and your ornaments! Another wow!
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