Tim's June Tag!!

Yep, it's June 1st and Tim Holtz is on the ball with his latest tag!  Check it out--love the colors and the technique he used with stencils!

Here's my take....

Sorry about the horrid photo.  The sun went down hours ago!  ;-)

It took me a few tries to find a stencil I liked.  The first ones didn't have enough "blank" space to get much color on the tag.  I love the Dylusions circle stencil.  Perfect for a summery/oceany tag!

I used lots of Distress Inks too.  Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey and Broken China.  The Broken China mixed with all those yellowy colors and made a beautiful green!  I misted the stencil and pressed it on a piece of watercolor paper.

The effect is just SO. COOL.

Then I totally held my breath and stamped the seahorses in a row.  Not too bad!  :-)

Next I stamped the seahorses again, on watercolor paper, and cut them out.  (ETA:  And used pop dots for some dimension.)

Then I held my breath AGAIN and stamped the Serenity on the side.

Whew!  Got it straight-ish!!  =D

I distressed the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I added the token and the stars, plus the Distress Ink-colored seam binding.

And then I called it a day...er...night!


So that's it for me.  I'm headed to wash the ink off my very ink fingers!!  LOL!!



Thanks so much for dropping by!

~Cynthia