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Tuesday with Tara {take 86}

Happy Tuesday!

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I love combining stamps that have been in my collection for years with newer tools, like an old favorite negative image stamp by Hero Arts from my stash as the background (inked with a couple shades of Distress Ink) and newer wildflower dies by Tim Holtz.

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I grouped together three of the dies, simple cut from black cardstock, to create a bouquet.  I added some neutral patterned paper from a 6×6 Prima paper pad to frame my focal point, adding a bit of Distress ink and distressing with a tool for texture.  A few wraps of thin jute string are another simple embellishment that adds a lot!

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I really like layering my word dies over a white duplicate to help them stand out.  It draws your eye to them without adding bulk. For tiny elements like words and florals, matte medium is a fabulous adhesive as you will not see it when it is dry!

Thanks for visiting!  Have a creative week…

inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 72}

Happy Tuesday!  I’m not sure when they decided it was officially “time” but I heard Christmas music on one of our local radio stations this past week, and store shelves are currently overflowing with Christmas decorations.  It’s far from wintery outside here, but it’s a wonderful time of year to be creating Christmas cards 🙂  Today I have one that is great for using up smaller die cuts and embellishments you have, or for doing a bit of prep work and taking time (maybe while you watch a Christmas movie!) to create a bunch of little paper blocks that can be assembled onto cards later.  My blocks are 1.75″ square, but you could save yourself some time if you have a square punch in a size close to that.

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I’ve used die cuts by Sizzix/Tim Holtz- these minis are probably some of my most used dies this time of year!  I love the steel dies for cutting heavier & textured materials, like chipboard and burlap covered cardstock.  Perhaps you’ve noticed that kraft is my favourite neutral to work with, and this card I pulled it out for every block on my card, keeping things pretty neutral overall but with little bits of red & some sparkle to brighten it up.

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A ticket embellishment by Tim Holtz, some red bakers twine and some red bling, along with red embossing powder for my sentiment, bring the color to this card.  The olive green squares also add color, but are a step away from traditional red & green.

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Corrugated cardboard is always a fun way to add texture, and these tiny snowflake buttons add some elegance.  I can’t decide which block is my fave… but I’m looking forward to creating some more and seeing where they end up!

Have you started your Christmas cards yet?  Dig into your supplies and see what you can create on tiny blocks to turn into fun patchwork cards.  I’d love to see a link to your creation in the comments!

Inky hugs,

Tara

 

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Tuesday with Tara {take 41}

Happy Tuesday!  I hope your week has been off to a creative start… and if not, Monday’s don’t really count anyways, so it’s not too late 🙂  I brought home some new Distress Crayons recently and took a little time to do some playing… here’s what came out of my first bit of creative play with them!  I’ve had butterflies in my yard already this spring and their vibrant yellow wings got me started on this project…

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I started with some butterflies (mini blueprint stamp by Tim Holtz) stamped onto watercolor paper.  I pretty much scribbled Distress Crayon onto them, using just 2 colors on each, and blended it out with a wet paintbrush.  It was interesting to see how fluid they were and how easily they were watered down.  The color spread across my image nicely, but it still retained some of that crayon like texture.  I added a bit of highlights with the secondary color, layering it in some places to increase intensity.  It’s a pretty quick way to color up an image!

My background was also made with Distress Crayons- I started with a kraft tag I had prepped by painting with white gesso.  I like this look and I’m glad I did up several of these, they will be fun to play with!  I scribbled the same three colors of Distress Crayon quite heavily across the left side of the tag, about an inch thick, moving from pink at the top to yellow on the bottom of my tag.  I then spritzed with water and smeared the color with my fingers to get it moving.  Distress Crayons won’t start moving on their own, so they need a little help!  Once they started to mix with the water I sprayed more water and lifted the tag so colors dripped across it.  While there were still puddles, I took my heat gun to it so I could keep it those drippy lines!  I really like how this turned out and will be playing with other color combinations for sure!  I took some skinny crinkle ribbon and used it to mop up the color that was on my craft sheet, then crinkled it up and set it aside to dry.

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I used Distress paint on my sentiment/background stamp along the side of the tag, as well as on the ‘warm hello’ sentiment flag I added to the bottom of the tag.  I decided to use three different glitters/beads on my butterflies as well as adding a bit of detail with a white pencil crayon and a clear glitter pen.

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The butterflies were curled with my fingers before adhering to the tag- I put some foam adhesive under the wings and used Glossy Accents on the body so it would lay flat and increase the dimension of the wings.  Glossy Accents was also my adhesive for the glitters!

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The sentiment is an old one by Hero Arts (I still love some of their wooden sentiment sets!) and the enamel dots are also from my stash.  Hope you like my tag, it was fun to experiment with Distress Crayons and create something pretty 🙂

Materials used:

Distress Crayons– vibrant set 🙂

kraft tag

white gesso

mini blueprints 2 Tim Holtz stamp set (or any butterfly stamp!)

stuff to say Tim Holtz stamp set

watercolor paper & paintbrush

Black Archival Ink

Assorted beads/glitter/bling

Distress Paint, Hickory Smoke

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Leave me a comment and you could win a pretty butterfly stamp to inspire your creativity 🙂  Have you tried creating with Distress Crayons yet?

 

 

 

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