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Tuesday with Tara {take 165}

Happy Tuesday! Around here it’s known as Taco Tuesday and we sometimes like to head down to a local brewery and enjoy food truck tacos with a cold beer- it’s a great way to celebrate recovering from Monday 🙂 I made this card for a friend’s birthday celebration over the weekend. Simple cards like this, with the BEER blueprints stamps by Tim Holtz, are great when you need one at the last minute, and I knew the theme would be appreciated! I simply stamped and added the color of his favorite brew.

Everything was simply stamped in Black Archival ink and colored with watercolor pencils & a water brush. The beer bottle and pretzel were stamped on white cardstock and fussy cut to layer onto the kraft tag. I was digging through my 6×6 paper pads and found this kraft core crackle cardstock I had forgotten about- I’m pretty sure it’s not made anymore but it was a great fit for this card!

I added a simple sentiment, also from Tim Holtz, to complete the card. I have a feeling this is a card I’ll be duplicating in a variety of colors in the future- the stamps are great for a variety of occasions, including long weekends like we just had!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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Tuesday with Tara {take 159}

1 Comment 24 Jul Tara

Happy Tuesday! If your weekend was anything like mine, you may have felt like your only super-power was the ability to rescue some wine that was trapped in a bottle 😉 If you know someone having one of those days (or weeks, or…) this quick little tag and a bottle of wine might be just what they need! It’s simple, but pretty fabulous I think… I know I’d welcome it if someone brought one to me!

I’ve used the stamps from Tim Holtz blueprints WINE mini stamps- love them! I stamped all in Archival Ink on a kraft tag, layering the wine glass slightly over the bottle and stamping a second time on a scrap of watercolor paper. The grapes & corkscrew images were stamped with colored Archival Ink and I simply colored the images to match using Watercolor pencils. A touch of glitter on both (Nuvo Crystal Drops) and a finish of Glossy Accents on the glass add that little something special. And of course, a snarky sentiment about wine from Tim’s new Small Talk set… love it. I found some pre-colored krinkle ribbon in my little stash bottle to tie at the top (I tend to make this in large batches when I do so I can just grab a piece when I need it). If you’re tying it to a wine bottle for a gift, a bit of twine through the hole works perfectly!

Quick & fabulous… just the way I like it! Hope you like it too! I’m loving these blueprints (they’ve been on my wishlist for a while, so you can expect to see more of them in the future!). Cheers!

Inky hugs,

Tara

Materials Used:

Tim Holtz Blueprints mini strip stamp- WINE

Archival Ink Jet Black, Leaf Green & Cactus Flower

Watercolor Pencils

Prima Watercolor Paper scrap

Prima Watercolor Brush pen set

Kraft Tag

Ranger Glossy Accents

Nuvo Crystal Drops- White Blizzard

Tim Holtz Small Talk Snarky