Friday, December 5, 2008

Tim Holtz Tag 4--Sort Of


Here is Tim's Tag for Day 4. As you can see, my tag looks nothing in the world like his tag. It does include a Santa Claus (from my Fancy Pants Blissful Season set), but it's not a photograph of me and Santa. And it includes the number 25, but mine are die cut and colored with a silver paint pen. Mine is also tag shaped and contains quit a bit of metal.


Actually I was more inspired by my friend Robyn Sharp's copper piece that she did a couple days' ago. I used the Faux Designer Paper technique on the copper (no it's not pink card stock--it's copper) using stamps from Inkadinkado and OnyxXpressions. Then I stamped a portion of a tree from Penny Black in the upper right-hand corner and hung this great ornament from Inkadinkado (also cut out of copper). The ornament was painted with blue alcohol inks before I stamped it, but it's really hard to tell that from the scan. And of course, I had to bling it up a little with Stickles and beads.

The Santa part is not printed on cloth like Tim's is, so to make up for it, I stamped a linen background stamp over it in VersaMark and embossed with clear. You can't see it, but it's textured in real life.

Lastly, I finished with Dresden Foil trim which I got at Rock Candy Studios. This is good stuff and very addictive.

Cyndi

4 comments:

Shelly Hickox said...

Very very cool! Did you iron the embossing off? Or just wipe the ink off? Great idea.

Cyndi Watkins said...

Shelly, I ironed it off. And you have to be careful because copper stays hot longer than paper.

Cyndi

Shelly Hickox said...

Oh, I know all about hot copper, lol! I usually do all my copper heating by the sink or have a bowl of water next to me to dunk it in.

That's a pretty cool idea - opens up all kinds of possibilities.

Michelle Murphy said...

great tag..love how you are techniqueie(okay a new word)you always amaze me..oh was that shelby that keeps coming up with the new stuff lol