This tag was made for the Steampunk Challenge which runs for a fortnight over on Tag Tuesday. I am proud to have won the last challenge (Black and white with a spot of colour) and love Steampunk, so I wanted to have a go at this challenge straight away.
The theme for the March tag swap over on Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art is Steampunk. I already had one completed tag in my stash which was suitable for the swap (see HERE for step by step), but decided to be a bit more daring with the colours on the second.
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This post is the first WOYWW of 2018 and will be posted at silly o'clock as I will be leaving home at 5.30am to get to the Hochanda studios by 8am. I will be helping Louise Withers behind the scenes with the second day of her One Day Special with Royal Talens (2nd/3rd January). Shaz has kindly agreed to link me up with Julia and the rest of the deskers as I won't have internet availability until very late once I leave the house. This tag was created as the second of my Royal Talens DT pieces and features the Van Gogh Oil Pastels as well as Ecoline pens.
The fortnightly prompt which came out on Tag Tuesday on my birthday had me reflecting. Back to School has two meanings for me; the return to work after the summer break and thinking back to my own school days many years ago which were very happy. I decided to go with nostalgia, as you can see from the tag...
I had such fun with the last tag that I created for the Use Your Scraps challenge with Tag Tuesday that I decided to make another before the fortnight was up. Once again, the only item not to come out of my 'scrap box' was the base tag itself and the stickers.
I started as ever with a #8 manilla tag. I glued the remaining section of my Moroccan inspired mop up sheet onto the tag using Pebeo matte gel, dried it and trimmed the excess (to see the original and the project that I used the rest of the sheet for see HERE).
I had a white card die cut using the Spellbinders Contemporary Diamonds die in my scrap die cut box and coloured it using Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polish in Ocean Teal.
This was then glued at an angle across the tag with the squares lined up with the sides of the tag.
I also had one of the Butterflies by Tim Holtz, cut using his Bigz die out of white card, then embossed using the matching texture fades embossing folder. This was coloured with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide, the embossing on the wings coloured and finger blended with Peacock Feathers distress crayon and the body with Picked Raspberry. This tied it in with some of the colours used on the mop up sheet. The butterfly was glued on at an angle (behind the body only) and the wings elevated.
It only remained to add a couple of the Tim Holtz Clippings Stickers to finish the tag.
This is my contribution for the monthly tag challenge with Tag It Tuesday. The theme is Steampunk/Gears so I thought this stamp from the Time Traveller collection by Sheena Douglass would be perfect.
I had great fun trying out a range of different techniques and media on this tag, from Distress Oxides, Aqua Tints and Gilding Wax, to die cutting, embossing and sanding back. This is being in the Craft Stamper blog challenge 'Anything Goes' and also the Tag Tuesday fortnightly challenge 'Things with Wings'.
