Film Strip Fun

Hello to you all, Jennie here and welcome to my first project this month. 

With drama being a great passion of mine I fell in love with Andy Skinner's Old Film Mask the minute I saw it! So here is it's first outing.

I started off with a blank gessoed tag and added some tissue tape and then used the bottom part of the stencil and crackled medium to create the layered film strip look. (Don't you just love that inky fingerprint !! - not ....)

When dry (and I always let cracke dry naturally) I sprayed the tag with Vintage Photo and Faded Jeans Distress Spay Stain giving a really heavy burst in the middle of the tag. Amazingly this dried disappointingly light by the time I had finished my tag.

I then used the top part of the stencil to create a little bit of texture on the top of the tag - I used both Faded Jeans and Vintage Photo Distress Ink but it really is quite light and again dried even lighter!

Then I added a little stamping - and my apologies that the stamps I have used are not in the shop, but hopefully soon (Andy Skinner's Chateau).

By the time I woke the next morning the inks had dried quite light so I added a vial label and some rub ons.

And finally .... a little collage using one of my favourite Photo Booth photos.

A neat little masculine tag which I think would be good to recreate in a card for a male family member.

Thank you for joining me today!

Happy Crafting!

Jennie x

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Andy Skinner Mask Old Film	DecoArt white crackle paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain Faded Jeans	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain - Vintage Photo	Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
Distress ink pad - Vintage photo	Ranger Archival ink pad - Jet black	Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Tissue Tape Laboratorie	Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Photobooth	Tim Holtz Ideology Small Talk Sticker Book
Tim Holtz - Idea-ology remnant rub ons - life quotes	Tim Holtz Ideology Sticker Labels Vial Labels

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Holiday Greenery

Hello all!  Alison here from Words and Pictures... I'm so happy you stopped by.  I hope you had a wonderful day yesterday, and are now settling in for the lovely 12 Days of peace and quiet after the chaotic preparations and busy day itself.  I've a pair of tags for you today which took advantage of leftovers and mop ups, and pretty much made themselves!

I started by brayering some gesso which was leftover on the craft mat on to a few tags to use it up.  As you can see, some tags got more gesso than others... Here they've also got a couple of Distress Paints brayered on and then spritzed to soften and blend them.  I think I used Stormy Sky and Iced Spruce, and possibly some Hickory Smoke or Pumice Stone - I forget now.

I left the most heavily gesso'd tag for another time and focussed on these two.  I added a few strips of tissue tape and then spritzed Stormy Sky Distress Spray through one of my favourite Layering Stencils - Festive.  I turned the stencil over to print the excess ink onto the second tag so you get a reverse image (and you don't waste your ink!).

Like many of you, I had lots of "negative" fronds of greenery left from punching the branches for my December Tim Tag.

Rather than throw them away, I decided to trim some of them and press them into use as panels on these tags.

A couple of Idea-ology Photobooth photos take their places.  In my head as I was making the tags these two are both single, and each has spent Christmases alone for the last few years.

But now, like one of those Hollywood films, fate is bringing them together in time for Christmas Eve.

I stamped one of my favourite festive PostCard stamps in Coffee for extra background detailing, and added some holly leaves, cut with the Holiday Greens Thinlits, and Christmas Typed Tokens, altered with some Mushroom alcohol ink.

And some ChitChat stickers help to spread the love...

... bringing the two lonely people together to share some laughter and kindness.

The tags work individually I think...

... but really they were created as a pair.

There's a symmetry in the composition which means the meeting is inevitable.  If you position the tags one way, they're still apart...

... but swap them over and you get your happy ending - so you just know it has to work out.  And that of course is what brings the sunshine out!

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I'll see you again soon.  Enjoy your 12 Days!

Alison x
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Sizzix Paper Punch Tim Holtz - Large Juniper Sizzix Punch Tim Holtz Large Laurel Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Holiday greens DecoArt Mixed Media - White Gesso Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Symphony Tissue tape Tim Holtz Distress Paint Iced Spruce Tim Holtz Distress Paint Stormy Sky Distress Spray Stain - Stormy Sky Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Photobooth Idea-ology Typed Tokens - Christmas Tim Holtz layering stencil - Festive Ranger Inkssentials Manila Tags #8 Idea-ology Crinkle Ribbon Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Chit chat Paper word stickers Idea-ology Findings - Long Fasteners Tim Holtz Kraft Core'dinations Cardstock

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