May Tags Received From ATT

I received gorgeous ATC's from the All Things Tim Yahoo Group in the mail while I was away with my family on vacation...love my happy mail!!! May's theme was "yellow".

Sandy Alsfasser (Texture galore, and check out those hub caps....love this Sandy!)

Stephen Jew (This looks and feels like real wood. Love the whole design, and those drops look like real honey or amber.)

Susan Salyer (Gorgeous butterflies and love the pin...really adds texture.)

Claudine Criner (Love Tim's new die with the background. Great design, and those fibers and key are fantastic!)

And...here is mine again.

If you are on the fence about joining in a swap, give it a go! You will more than likely be pleasantly surprised with what you get back, and probably learn some technique from your participants!
I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!

Metal Tags Tutorial

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A couple of weeks ago, Linda, for the Friday Focus at Frilly & Funkie, showed you how to create metal embellishments that were fabulous and real show stoppers. I am going to add to that for this Saturday Step By Step, and give you a quick tutorial showing you a few ways to create metal embossed tags.

Cut a piece of Foil Tape Sheet to fit a jumbo sized tag.

Apply the Foil Tape and use a brayer to flatten it for better adhesion. Trim the fol and punch the hole for the tag.

Using a Texture Fade of your choice, emboss the image on the tag. From this point, you have many options. The following snippit samples show you two options.

Sample #1: Apply Acrylic Paint Dabber making sure to get into every crack and crevice, let dry, then sand the top until a shiny finish appears. You can add an embossing medium and UTEE  to the whole image, and then heat emboss, for a wonderful thick glaze.

Sample #2: Apply Vintaj Ink Patina, let dry, sand the top, then apply the Vintaj Glaze.

Add drops of a darker Alcohol Ink straight from the bottle.

Using an Alcohol Ink Tool, dab the drops of ink on the tag. Add more darker ink and gradually add lighter colors until you achieve your desired look and color.

You can stop at this stage. The following snippit sample shows you another look using all the same techniques as this, but with more lighter Alcohol Ink than dark.

Sample #3

Sand the raised edges of the embossed design using a very fine grit paper or use a Vintaj Reliefing Block. Apply Vintaj Glaze or use UTEE heat embossing. When dry, add your embellishments and ribbon.

Supplies:


I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!