12 Tags pennant style: Day 7

This was not Tim's best tag day.  Consequently, this isn't my best day either.  He buried his flaws under a big bouquet of froufrou, but I am getting tired of froufrou tags, and did not create the necessary gigantic embellishment with 6 different textural layers.  I did make the distressed background, the embossed sentiment, and played with stuff that I don't normally use for embellishing, in this case tissue from a sewing pattern and some raffia.

It is good to have a few ugly ones - it makes the others look better.

EDIT:

I couldn't stand it any more - this pennant was too muted and bland.  I restamped the bird with black ink and added some more embellishment, including sparkly red crystal stickpins.

Tim, you win this one.

12 Tags pennant style: Day 6

Tim's tag today is centered on a faux enameling technique on metal.  I didn't have any metal today, not even an old aluminum can (recycling pick-up was yesterday), so I used another enameling technique.  This one involves 3 colors of embossing powder.

At the very top (this is the gutter, it will either be covered or cut off) you can see the original color of the cardstock.  after three layers of clear EP, the surface was smooth and dark.  I then stamped versamark snowflakes on the clear embossed surface, and embossed that with silver EP.  Finally, I stamped and embossed white snowflakes on top of that.  each layer sinks into the previous as you heat it, giving the appearance of a smooth enameled surface.  I didn't want to cover it all up, so I just added a bow and small charm.

EDIT:

Maybe less is more.  Here is how it looks without the bow. (If you think it was better with the bow, say so in the comments)

12 Tags pennant style: Day 5

Tim's tag today featured a relatively complicated background with a  simple diecut wreath on it.  I decided to go easy today and just cut a sheet of printed cardstock for my background, and focus on the wreath.  I didn't have the die (no surprise there, eh?), but I did have a pine branch punch that I had intended for years to use in this way.

There are a LOT of little punched branches there!  I used Core'dinations cardstock for the branches so I wouldn't have to worry about white edges.  I could have done more, but it didn't need it.

12 Tags pennant style: Day 4

Tim's frosty, painted tag had a lot of layers of paint and texture on it, and I tried to do the same, but it just wasn't working.  Also, my son Gordon disapproved of the monochromatic look of the snowman and insisted I give him more contrast.  I think Gordon was right.

The embossing border is not waste plastic, but waste aluminum for a drink can.  The limbs of the snowman are cut from the branches of a punched tree.  I accept that not everyone can draw a deer, but really, anyone can draw a snowman.

12 Tags pennant style: Day 3

Tim's tag featured a subway art stamp with a matching embossing folder, and his ever popular custom stamp pad technique.  I've never done the custom stamp pad, nor do I have the subway art stamp and folder, but I do have a tool I like to use - Paint Shop Pro.  I downloaded some subway art here, modified to to fit on a pennant with PSP, and then glittered up the words that I printed out.

I passed on the holly, because I did that two days ago, but I did throw some stars on there, mostly to cover up spots of smeared glitter/ink.  As Tim says, "Mistakes are opportunities for creative embellishment".  

12 Tags pennant style: Day 2

Tim's second tag featured a diecut deer.  I don't need no stinkin' dies; I drew and cut out this myself.

I made the wreath out of lumpy yarn, dragged through my distress ink pad to darken it a bit.  The green at the edges of the pennant is some green cardstock I used to back the thin music paper.  I could have trimmed it closer, but I liked it showing.

12 Tags pennant style: Day 1

It's December, so Tim Holtz is doing his annual 12 tags of Christmas. Last year I didn't bother, because I never did anything with the tags from the year before, and I didn't want a bunch more tags sitting in a box taking up space, but this year, I had a plan. I'm participating in a pennant swap, which will give me a few nice pennants for a short string, but I thought that if I made Tim's tags into pennants, it would flesh out the collection and make a really nice display. Tim's first tag featured a Noel die cut, which I didn't have, so I cut my own Noel freehand.

I also didn't have the die to cut and make a pinecone, but I did have some red glass beads and some punches.  Cool trick - to cut holly leaves, use a scalloped edge scissors but turn the scallops to the inside.