Thursday 12 June 2014

A bit of texturing - Tim Holtz style!!

I wanted to share this tag with you as I'm practicing my tags to get a bit braver with them! As I recently got some texture pastes and I'd only used them once I thought it was about time to give them another go.  The best thing is that this fits in well with four crafty challenges: A Vintage Journey - Get Some Texture; Compendium of Curiosities 3 - Challenge 4 (CC3C); Crafty Individuals - Tag You're It!; and That's Crafty - It's All About Texture.

The first step was to use Tim's 'Layered Stencil' technique with the aforementioned texture paste - I can't share this technique with you as in line with the CC3C rules I need to refer you to Tim's third installment of the Compendium of Curiosities - this technique is on page 49.  I did use a variety of stamps to shadow stamp the background of the tag - including some Crafty Individuals ones.

This I then overlayed with two ovals on which I've used another of Tim's texture techniques - this time Crumpled Kraft Suede (page 40 in Compendium of Curiosities 2!).  I stamped these with a sentiment from my ever growing collection of Tim's stamps and a little heart.

A beautiful spray of flowers and a word band and it's all finished!


I'm really pleased with myself for venturing into the unknown!!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Compendium of Challenges 3 - Challenge 4 Layered Stencil technique - here http://lindaledbetter.com/2014/06/compendium-of-curiosities-3-challenge-4.html

A Vintage Journey - Get Some Texture - here http://www.vintagejourney.com/2014/05/challenge-7-get-some-texture.html

Crafty Individuals - Tag You're It! - here http://craftyindividualsblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/we-challenge-you-in-june-to-play-tag.html

and

That's Crafty - It's All About Texture - here http://thatscraftychallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/its-all-about-texture-challenge.html

Thanks for reading!
Stefanie xx




10 comments:

  1. Great tag, once you start with texture paste it's addictive! X

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    1. Thanks Jan - I loved the texture paste - can't wait for another play!!

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  2. Hats off to you Steffi. This is such a great way of combining these techniques to create something so beautiful, and it's great to know you are really pushing your creative boundaries. Thank you so much for joining us at A Vintage Journey. Jenny x

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    1. Hi Buttons - thanks for your visit :o)

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  3. Great heart texture on the background! Love the shape too! Wonderful! Thanks so much for joining in on our texture challenge this time at CC3Challenge!!!

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  4. Very original tag! It's always great to try new techniques. :) Many Thank you for joining in the Crafty Individuals June Challenge. Coco x

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    1. Hi Coco - thanks for popping by :o) Always enjoy your challenges!

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  5. Fun and original tag!
    Bizz,
    Sylvie

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    1. Hi Sylvie thanks so much for leaving me a comment :o)

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