Old with New

Playing with distress paints and the new Frameworks dies from Tim Holtz, I created this Spring Tag!

The background has pumice stone and antique ivory paints streaked and then sprayed with water. Dry paint then cover tag with frayed burlap ink via the blending tool and foam. This creates a faux wood background. I painted the frameworks piece in evergreen bough, then sanded and inked in vintage photo. Wipe to remove the ink from paint and dry. cut into pieces then adhere to tag. I punched circles out of clear plastic packaging, then embossed it in the clockworks TFEF. I alcohol inked the clockface, then pressed it into a staz-on inkpad to catch the raised edges. The flower is from the new XL Bigz die, the center is the center of the wreath with a plastic bling piece, and brad. I fininshed off the tag with ribbon dyed with tattered rose stain, and a butterfly cut out of Tim's mirror with one of his mover shaper dies.

My last Spring Tag uses one of Tim's new stencils and his new Marker sprayer. The tag's background is Broken china ink with the blending tool and foam, then I used the lattice stencil and sprayed with evergreen bough marker in the sprayer over the stencil. I stamped an image at the bottom of the tag. Then I tore a piece of patterned paper inked the edges and adhered it to the tag, added the die cut lace at the bottom. I die cut the leaf from Tim's spring green die in grungepaper, colored it in peeled paint stain, then when dried I coated it in glossy accents. Adhere the leaf to tag then wrap string around tag and attach a tag and charm. I used a Wendy Vecchi quote stamp onto the upper right of tag. This tag is a combination of old and new. New dies, stencils, and tools like the marker sprayer. Old in dies, inks, stains, and stamps. Just like Spring, everything can be new again!