12 Tags of 2014 and OCC

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend. I have a tag to show today made to enter into Tim Holtz's 12 tags of 2014 which for the January tag has a great industrial style and also to enter the  Our Creative Corner Challenge where the challenge is 'no more shopping sins' and involves using hoarded stash.

Well, like many I have hoarded stash and there are a couple of items on the tag that I haven't used such as the pocket watch die and the game spinners. I really like how the metal effect came out and it was satisfying to actually use some of my hoarded ideology bits and pieces. I've stuck as far as I could to Tim's tag, same pumice stone background and pocket watch metal covered die cut and I've improvised on other items that I didn't have.

The sanding of the rub on's is a nice effect that is a technique from the tag by Tim, it really does make them part of the background.

Thanks as always for your lovely comments.


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Our Creative Corner - Triple Play

Hi everyone, I hope you had a good weekend. A card today for Our Creative Corner where the challenge this week is 'Triple Play'. There's a list of embellishments and you have to pick three from the list to use on your card. I've used bling, ribbon and lacquer (glossy crackle accents in this case on the big flower. Just about everything on this card came from my lovely blog buddy Tara in a gorgeous RAK she sent me, thank you Tara, it's all beautiful! I coloured this little Ketto image with markers, cut out with square nesties and mounted on pink core'dinations scalloped nestie cut out and I've added a little half pearl to the flower centre and Papermania sentiment. The card blank is cut from aqua bazzil layered with more pink card and then the very pretty paper from Tara (don't know the brand but it's really gorgeous) I added a big bow and ribbon band across the centre which is very sheer and wide and it's dotted with little sparkly gems. The die cut flower at the bottom was also from Tara :) and was white so that I could colour it which is great. I coloured with markers then added the crackle accents, a punched stamen and pearl. Everything is mounted with 1mm and 2mm dimension tape. TFL. Chris x