12 Tags of 2014 – September – Fall Memories!

Hey friends! What's shakin'? Hope you're having a great week. It's flying by, isn't it, with the holiday this week and all. I'm ready for another weekend – how about you? One of my favorite things to look forward to at the beginning of each month is the new Tim Holtz Tag! I love the 12 Tags of 2014 so far, don't you! I couldn't wait to see the one for September, and Mr. Holtz did not disappoint! I made my tag right away this month, because last month I ran out of time and never got it done….

I put my interpretation on the tag, and made it a Fall tag (of course) and used some different products because I do not have all the exact same supplies. That's what makes us all different and why I love looking at everyone else's tags they post.

So here's my….drum roll…12 Tags of 2014 September Tag!

 

 

 

Hoooooot! Embrace Fall Memories says Mr. Owl! The owl stamp is from a brand new set for this year! The stencil is brand new too! Yay for new stamping supplies!!

 

 

 

This tag has lots going on! Lots of layers, and ink, and stamping, and markers, and glitter, and ribbon, and a key…. LOL. 

 

 

 

You guys know I can never resist dying my own ribbon to match! It comes out differently every time, and this time I got the prettiest shade of golden orange. I added a metal key at the end! 

 

 

 

This new Gothic Stencil is already a fav-o-rite! I am going to use this one a lot! In the example tag on Tim's blog he uses alcohol inks to make a ghost image for his backgroung green layer. I do not have any alcohol inks so I used a tried and true technique instead. It gives the same look! First I took the Versamark ink and pushed it directly through the stencil on to my tag. Then I clear embossed it. You can see the pattern here…

 

 

 

In lieu of alcohol inks, I smushed (yes that is the technical term) some green inks onto my craft sheet and then spritzed a lot of water on them. Then I slightly wet my tag too and then ran it through the inks…

 

 

 

I could not have been happier with the results! I looooooooove this! After I made this cool tag I didn't want to put anything on it! Hahaha. 

 

 

 

So here's the cool part! In the top photo you see that the embossed parts are still raised and shiny right? Well, look here….the shiny parts are gone and now my tag is perfectly smooth and flat! WHAT happened!? I ironed my tag! Yep, I sandwiched the tag between two paper towels and ironed it with a dry iron. This melts the embossing into the paper! So now you've basically made your own paper! See what I mean about that stencil? Ooh la la. Yes ma'am. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now I started adding things! Some black text stamping, and my owl….and then I inked around the edges of my tag with some Corduroy ink…

 

 

 

In Tim's tag he uses butterflies and unfortunately I do not have that die (already added to my wish list). And I wanted to use a Fall theme, so I chose the mini leaves dies. I used the same technique to color the paper for my leaves. I smushed yellow, orange and red inks on my craft sheet and wet them and ran them together with my finger (no one said this was a clean project)! 

 

 

 

After I colored my tag, I dyed the ribbon with the same inks… Dry everything off with your heat tool…

 

 

I die cut my leaves and then stamped the text onto them…

 

 

 

And then I just thought we needed some glitter! After I added my leaves and my stickers I just went through and put on some glitter accents. Loving the Vintage Photo Distress Glitter! 

 

 

 

 

Will you make a tag this month? I hope so! You have all month to enter! CLICK HERE to go to Tim Holtz's blog post and you can see his gorgeous tag, enter your own, or just take a look at the tags everyone else made. Until we meet again – go make some Fall memories! XOXO