12 Tags of Christmas 2008 - second instalment

Here are the next three Tags in the series .....I am totally obsessed with making these at the moment and when they are all done, I am going to put them into a 'Book About Christmas' for the Gorgeous One (aka Finley William) and his brothers and sisters - when they come ....
I'm not that happy about the canvas one (number 4). Rather than printing a photo onto the Sticky Back Canvas, I stamped onto it and the result is rather pale (either that or I need to buy a new ink pad - lol). The flower is on SBC flower backed with metal, which I saw demonstrated by Linda of LB Crafts last year and which is very 'en trende' at the moment. The numbers were cut from the Quickutz Tangerine alphabet and triple embossed.
The alochol ink painted one (no. 6) is definitely 'making do' - the robins are from a Creative Expressions plate (sorry everyone). I'm not sure about painting with the alcohol inks and I found it quite difficult to get it 'smooth'. I will have to do it again though because I now have a water brush full of blending solution and my dried up alcohol ink on a diddy palete in the corner - lol. I like the effect of the white acrylic paint on the underside of the acrylic but I think this needs some more practice - lol - but I did master splodging the paint around on the right side of the tag - lol.
The Snowman one is lovely. I have a pack of plain Grungeboard sheets and have made templates of him for the Christmas cards. I'm not sure that I got the consistency of the 'snow' right, because I was missing some of the ingredients - but it stuck and hasn't fallen off - yet!
I hope you like them. More to follow soon ....

An Awfully Big Art Adventure - Give Me A Sign ....

This week's Challenge over at Rosie and Linda's Awfully Big Art Adventure is to make a sign of a challenge or goal or message for the year ahead - a bit like a New Year Resolution - but much shorter .... I don't make NYR's because they are doomed to fail and I, therefore, fail and I can't be doing with that. I like this idea of one word though.
The idea for my word - PATIENCE - started while I was doing something else. It went wrong and I didn't have the patience to start all over again. I have also been just a tad impatient over the last couple of days because of my poor little sick car; and there have been a couple of times at work where, perhaps, a little more patience would have been a good thing.
So here's my Sign, which I will hang in my craft room/office, over the computer ....The background is a mix of Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo Distress Inks all swiped, sooshed and sprayed, over the Tim Holtz Timeworks Mask. I just love the stamped image, which is salvaged from the failed piece (see above). It's Waiting For Mr Right from Lost Coast Designs and the four ladies are sitting there waiting so patiently .... The letters of the word are cut using the Abigail alphabet with the Quickutz Revolution and then scuffed up a bit with an emery board. I used bright colours for humour. The clock face is from the Artistic Stamper's Time and Keys Plate. The whole thing is mounted on a piece of card that I was messing around with walnut ink. All the edges have been tattered with a Paper Distresser.