First Post of the Year!

It's January first and you know what that means, right??

Oh sure, Bowl Games.  (Yes, my alma mater is down by one at the half.  AHHHHH!!!)

And taking down the Christmas decorations.  (I seem to have forgotten some roping and one Santa.  Oops.)

But no.  I'm talking about Tim's Tag Time!  Yes, our Fearless Tag Leader is continuing his monthly tag series!!!  Check out his tag here.  Because seriously, my tag looks nothing like it.

 

So to start...sorry for the awful photo.  That journal tag isn't really that pink.  It's been cloudy here for like 523 days in a row, so it's hard to get photos that are true-to-life.  :-P

Anyway.  I followed Tim's Tag recipe.

Kind of.

The background is super cool.  I used Pumice Stone Distress Stain and flicked water on it and stenciled a Julie Fei-Fen Balzer feather over that using Pumice Stone Distress Ink.

The jar (of hopes for the future--get it?) is die cut grunge paper covered in silver tape used in HVAC work.  I embossed that with swirls then die cut another jar using some etched plastic I found laying around.  I painted the swirly embossed image with Black Soot Distress Paint then stuck some Chit-Chat stickers on top, and stapled the plastic die cut piece on top of that!

Whew.

I used some of Tim's glorious Remnant Rubs for the words on the bottom of the tag and added a journal tag with an old old old compass stamp.

I made the fun charm just like Tim did.

OK.  Not really.

I punched a 3/4 inch circle from cardstock, applied a Remnant Rub phrase on it then cut the circle down to 1/2 inch so it would fit in one of Tim's brads.  It's really cool in real life!  ;-)

I added a bit of seam binding/crinkle ribbon and called it DONE.

Happy New Year to you and thanks so much for visiting today!!

~Cynthia