Welcome friends! I’m excited to be a part of the Tim Holtz Holiday Release blog hop. I have such a fun project to share!
I will have links to the next person in the hop linked at the end of this post so be sure to check it out so you don’t miss out on any inspiration.
One thing that I never seem to have enough of during the holiday season is tags so I decided to get ahead start on them using the Festive Schematic set.
I have had the #5 mixed media heavystock tags in my stash for a while and thought it’s the perfect time to dig them out.
I started by squishing Festive Berries and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide onto a media mat and lightly spritzing with water. Then I dipped one of the tags in it for a distressed, splattered look. I repeated these steps on another tag but this time using Peeled Paint, Pine Needles and Vintage Photo. I don’t usually make a bunch of the same tag at a time mainly because I like each one to be a little different.
Once the tags were dry, I stamped the holly design onto the panel using versafine ink. I love that grid pattern behind the holly.
After stamping, I splattered the background with White Splatter and then spritzed with Tarnished Brass Distress Spritz for added shine.
Next, I stamped the images once again in Versafine ink on Distress Watercolor Paper. Then used my distress inks to watercolor in the images. I trimmed them out with the coordinating die and popped them up onto the tags placing them right over the previous image stamped on the tag.
I added a bit of Snowfall Grit Paste and Distress Collage to parts of the leaves and berries and then sprinkled Distress Rocky Cnady Chunky Glitter over the top.
Each tag was finished off with a bit of silver string and a bit of gold on the edges of the tag using a gold metallic paint pen.
If you haven’t tried mixed media before I highly recommend it. It was so refreshing and just fun to try something a little different.
BLOG HOP
Next up is Stacy Hutchinson.
- Simon Says Stamp Blog
Nina-Marie Trapani
Heather Hoffman
Nichol Spohr
Emma Williams
Barbara Tarayao
Kath Stewart
Mindy Eggen ➡️ YOU ARE HERE
Stacy Hutchinson. ➡️ NEXT
Tina Smith
Tami Bastiaans
Barb Engler
Thanks for stopping by today and hope you found some inspiration!
Beautiful Tags, Mindy. Love the backgrounds and all the details. I’s nice to see berries in another color than typical red too – they look so real. TYFS
Love your tags, smooshing ink for backgrounds is a favorite technique.
Love these tags!!! The backgrounds are so fuN!
Awesome tags. I love your mixed media. It gives so much texture and dimension. Thank you for sharing.
Gorgeous tags!!!! So grungy good!!!!
These are so cool. I love the spritzing in the background. NICE
I am totally smitten with your tags, they are little pieces of Christmas art. Colorful, detailed, festive and prefect for adding to a package to take it to the next level. Tag perfection.
Awesome tags – LOVE the backgrounds you made!
Awesome tags!
These are fabulous Mindy. LOVE the watercolouring and grungy finishes xoxo
Love your background technique!
These are cute tags. My wishlist is getting larger. Thanks for the tips. I’m really loving that there are coordinating dies.
These are so unique! I love that you chose non-traditional colours for your splashy backgrounds.
Beautiful tags
absolutely gorgeous tags!