… the two sweetest passions known to man

Showing a tag today I’ve made playing along with Tim’s 12 Tags of 2015, this one is based on the September inspiration.

So I had none of the products needed to make the background Tim used which meant I had to improvise.  I had Specialty Stamping Paper, which is glossy, and I had Various Inks so I figured they’d do the trick.  I swirled some Various Inks on my craft sheet and then spritzed with alcohol then dragged my piece of Stamping Paper through it and heat set.  I’m reasonably happy with the result but then I am never 100% happy with this sort of background technique.  With my non-white background to my stamping I am entering my tag in the current challenge at Sweet Stampin’.

Also had to improvise on the stamps as I don’t have all that many of Tim’s…yet!  I did have some butterflies though, mixed two different sets and decided to try something a bit different and throw over some Perfect Pearls to give the butterflies a bit of sparkle.  As I have three butterflies on it I am entering it over at Addicted to Stamps for their current challenge.

Given this is for a bookmark, I took one of Tim’s stamps I had and stamped on the back of the tag and threw some Fran-tage around to give it some interest.  I picked the sentiment as it best suited a bookmark, after all you find all sorts of inspiration in books.  I also picked the Word Band I used to match my theme of inspiration and imagination, which books simply overflow with.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Perfect Pearls ~ Heirloom Gold

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Ochre

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Prima Stencils ~ Décor 1

Embellishments

Gold Jewellery Wire from stash

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Long Fasteners, Reinforcers & Word Bands

Inks & Paints etc

13@rts Ayeeda Medium ~ Acrylic Gel Medium

Ranger Archival Ink ~ Jet Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Ground Espresso

Various Inks ~ B29, BG05, G03, V09, Y06, YG00, YR68

Papers

Ranger ~ #8 Black Tag, #8 Kraft Tag & Specialty Stamping Paper

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Frosted

Ribbons & Trims etc

Tim Holtz Idea-ology ~ Linen Ribbon

Stamps

BoBunny ~ Ambrosia

Prima Finnabair ~ Dream On

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz ~ Words for Thought (CMS132)

Challenges

Addicted to Stamps #110 ~ Butterflies

Sweet Stampin’ ~ Use a non-white base

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2015 ~ September

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