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Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2013 – May

24 May 2013 3 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: Challenge, distress, distressing, grungy, stamping, tag, Tim Holtz, Unity Stamp Co.

After taking a long break from crafting I’m now getting myself ready to re-enter the craft world, so to get my feet wet I figured a tag would be the best way to go. 🙂 When I think about tags, I can’t help but also think about Tim Holtz and his fabulously grungy, vintagy (is that even a word? lol), technique-filled creations, so I stopped by his blog for inspiration.

Each month, he shares a new tag, posts a tutorial on how he created it and challenges readers/followers to link up their creations inspired by that month’s tag. You can follow along as loosely or as closely to his design as you’d like. 😀

Here’s what I came up with:

Materials:

#8 tag
Fancy Pants rubons
Distress stains
Distress ink
Unity Stamps
Staz On ink
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Film Strip Ribbon
TH Idea-ology Muse Token
TH Idea-ology Word Band
TH Idea-ology Trimmings
G45 brad

Adhesives:

Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
Terrifically Tacky Tape

Thanks for looking! To check out Tim Holtz’s tag, the challenge or the other entries, CLICK HERE.

Halloween Riddles TP Roll tag album

15 Oct 2012 3 Comments

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft, Halloween, Helmar adhesives, Hocus Pocus, Little Yellow Bicycle, May Arts ribbons, pink paislee, riddles, Tattered Angels, Unity Stamps, upcycled tp rolls

I am so honored to have been selected to participate in the May Arts/Helmar “Ink It!” Craft Challenge! I was sent 4 different gorgeous May Arts trims to work with and the only rules to the challenge were to ink them up any way I wanted! I was also provided with a small bottle of my favorite adhesive for trims, Helmar 450 Quick Dry.

For my entry, I decided to create a tp roll tag album with Halloween Riddles for my kiddos, using several products from May Arts “Partners in Craft” and Helmar “Preferred Partners” (these partners are noted in the materials section below the pics). Here’s what I came up with:

Cover and front of 1st tag:

First spread with the coordinating tags:

Second spread with coordinating tags:

Third spread with tags:

Last spread w/coordinating tags:

Materials:

5 TP rolls
May Arts trims (flowers, suede leaves, canvas, net ribbon)
Pink Paislee (Helmar Preferred Partner) Hocus Pocus papers and embellishments
Little Yellow Bicycle (May Arts Partner in Craft) stickers and clear cuts
Unity Stamp Co. (Helmar Preferred Partner) stamps
Tattered Angels (May Arts Partner in Craft) Glimmer Mist
LSG Flat Fabio mists
Faber Castell Design Memory Craft (Helmar Preferred Partner) Stampers Big Brush Markers
Fancy Pants stamps
Maya Road stamps
Viva Decor Inka Gold (silver)
Studio G stamps
Distress inks and stains

Adhesives used:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry
Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
Helmar Acid Free Glue

CLICK HERE to see the other entries and for your chance to win some fabulous May Arts ribbons!

Quick and Easy Autumn Card for SKWAD

10 Oct 2012 Comments Off on Quick and Easy Autumn Card for SKWAD

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: ABC Primer, Autumn Card, G45, Graphic 45, Prima flower, seam binding

For the October Inspiration Challenge at SKWAD, I decided to create a quick and easy card using Graphic 45’s ABC Primer, a bit of seam binding and a single Prima flower. Here’s what I came up with:

Here’s the fab Inspiration Image for this month’s challenge:

If you’d like to play along this month, entries are due by midnight (Australian EST) October 31, 2012. TFL!

Back to School Mini Backpack Gift Project

20 Aug 2012 1 Comment

by dlwidder in Cards and Projects Tags: altered project, back to school, craft, Game On, Girl Land, Webster's Pages

Need a little gift idea for your children’s first day back to school or a teacher gift? Check out this fab idea by Mary Arima for Splitcoaststampers! You can find the template and instructions for assembling this cutie project HERE. These are 3 little backpacks I made using this template (you can made adaptations to the template to suit your needs too):