I'm heavy into preparation for my October cemetery tour, but I'm popping in long enough to share my September tag with you:
Materials/tools used:
- Ranger Inkssentials Black tags
- Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black
- Ranger Alcohol Inks: Bottle, Citrus, Denim, Eggplant, Juniper, Lake Mist, Lettuce, Meadow, Purple Twilight, Sailboat Blue, Stonewashed, Stream
- Ranger Metallic Mixatives: Gold
- Ranger Alcohol Ink Blending Solution
- Ranger Glossy Accents
- Ranger Heat Tool
- Ranger Inkssentials Foam Blending Tool
- Ranger Alcohol Ink Felt
- idea-ology: Remnant Rubs (Life Quotes), Tissue Tape (Hobgoblin)
- Sizzix Big Shot
- Sizzix Decorative Strip die: Butterfly Frenzy
- Stamps by Stampendous (Glance), and Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous (CSS27843)
- Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil: Cargo
- Double-stick tape, white gloss paper from my stash
- Paper trimmer
As always with the monthly tag, techniques are on Tim's blog. I ran into a few issues this month, mostly because when I went to do this tag, I realized that I only had one small piece of white gloss paper left, and the only store that carries it locally was already closed. So I did what I could, but didn't experiment as much as I sometimes do. Stamping through the stencil with blending solution seemed like a cool idea, but I had trouble getting the stencil pattern to show up. All I got were blobs, and I think I used too much blending solution. Going to have to try that again. I also needed to plan slightly better how to lay out my butterflies before I began to attach them; if you look along the top of the tag, it's plain to see where I ran out of the larger sizes. But overall, I think it's a very pretty tag, and I did enjoy making it. :-)
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Well, that's it for now. Hope you're having a wonderful autumn, so far!
'Til next time!
BAC
