Tim's March tag

Hi everyone and thanks for coming by!
Today I am sharing my version of Tim's March tag:

I followed Tim's techniques pretty much exactly. I just used different colours and embellishments, even though the main stamped image is the same. All the techniques can of course be found on Tim's own blog here
The paint colours I used were Vintage Linen, Wild Honey, a bit of Peeled Paint and Vintage Photo.
I don't have the new word layering stencil, so I used an old one and instead of using gold detailed embossing powder I used copper.

I chose some copper coloured embellishments to go with it, A token with the word Cherish and a Roman numeral, adhered over a bit of Ideaology measuring tape.

I left the embellishments quite minimal, because the butterfly image is quite prominent and I don't wanted my tag to get too busy....

I wanted to deepen the colours of my butterfly a bit further and used a Faber Castell Big Brush pen for that. I also went around the edges with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink.

I also created a few little splats by sticking a brush into some Peeled Paint Distress Stain Spray and then flicking it across my tag.

Regulars might remember that I made a booklet to keep my tags in this year and each month I create a new page background for that month.

I try to convey the mood of the month or match the colours of the tag. The March page is a double page, - here is the other side:

I enjoy making the backgrounds to these pages almost as much as I enjoy making the tag itself.

For those new to my blog, the link to the original booklet description is here if you are interested to see how I made it.

Well, thanks for visiting today. It's going to be pretty quiet around here for the rest of this month as I am off to the States for the next 10 days, but I hope to at least visit you all occasionally.

I am adding this to Tim's March Tag challenge
Thanks for coming by like always

All she wanted was to be a queen of hearts

Hello everyone and  so lovely to have you drop by. Can you believe it is Mid Summers day already here in the Northern Hemisphere... ? I can't believe how time flies and that the days will now start to get shorter again.... half way to Christmas....

Today I am sharing a journal page which I created just for fun:

After playing in my journal when doing my Tim tag, I really wanted to do another page as I have had so little time for journaling recently. You can see that page HERE if you missed it.

I'll do a quick step by step with photos so you can see how I built up my page:

I started with putting some Dreamweaver stencil paste through a couple of stencils, Prima top left, Memory Box bottom right. When dry I added some subtle colours with Distress Paints: Antique Linen, Victorian Velvet, a bit of Weathered Wood and Pumice Stone. I also spritzt some home made sprays (Victorian Velvet re-inker and water, and Weathered Wood re-inker and water) over the textured bits.

Next came some torn book pages, tissue tape, a bit of Gesso and some stenciling with Pumice Stone Distress Ink throught the Tim Holtz Dots and Lattice Work stencils:

I also added some stamps from a Lynne Pyrella set. I stamped the beautiful main image first straight on the page with Watering Can Archival. I then stamped her again and cut her out, coloured her with Victorian Velvet and Pumice stone and adhered her to the page. Next I stamped the middle section again with Plum Archival, cut out just the heart and adhered that, I also stamped the crown from the same set straight onto the page.

Nearly done:

Some glossy accents on the heart to make it pop a bit more.

Some little scraps from a paper serviette adhered with Gel medium over the textured bits.

A butterfly made from paper clay in a Martha Stewart mould.

Some background stamping with Kaisercrafts texture stamps. The feather is from the LP set. The little crown and pen nib are Stamping Up stamps. The sentiment was computer generated.

A bit more stenciling and texture stamping and adding some shadows with the help of a Pumice Stone Distress marker and that was it...

Hope you like it and thanks so much for visiting!!