Sunday, July 24, 2011

GM 16 & SSS

Linda said Gunge Paper or Board and Simon said emboss and you really can’t get any better than that.  Now, Grunge is an awesome medium.  The best of say, leather and paper and it lends itself to major construction projects.  It’s easy to cut/pierce and extremely pliable.  I, however, was never going to be able to pull off a construction project this week and was in need of another prompt.  My favorite crafting cohort and consult said birdcage and off I went.  The TH baroque frame, cut from grunge board,  has been dry embossed with a texture fade and had various coloring items applied to it.  Home brewed glimmer mist, distress inks, stains and a schmear of silver dauber.  The bird cage, bird,  flourish and donut, all grunge board, have  been heat embossed and then Uteed.  A deliciously unpredictable embossing method that I learned from Stamptramp.  The only “construction” I did was to prop up the various levels of materials.  The bird was easy to align with the bird cage and frame, using foam tape.  The flourish was cut again from grunge board and cut and glued where needed to make the whole thing lay over the frame and cage correctly.  What fun!  The tag is super sparkly with home brew PP mist and stamped with my favorite and first TH stamp in silver.  I’ll ad more “stuff” when I can catch another minute or 2. 

Check out everyone’s fabulous creations at Linda’s Grungy Monday Challenge and Simon Says Stamps (good luck to all design team entries).  And here’s where you can check out all of Tim Holtz’ wonderfulness.

11 comments:

  1. This turned out fabulous! Love all that blue!

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  2. Beautiful!! I have some grunge board. Need to give it a try soon.

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  3. Hi Kathleen - don't you just love the grunge? :) I have to admit I *have* to use your idea of the flourish-as-branch. Brilliant!

    Cheers,
    Susan

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  4. Oh this is so pretty! Love the colour (have a particular weakness for blue birds!)

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  5. This is absolutely fabulous and I love it!! Well done!!
    Hasn't the weather been great this weekend? Hence why I am late visiting!! Cannot believe we are now on GM17!!

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  6. this is gorgeous!! absolutely beautiful!! =)
    hugs, SannaS

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  7. Terrific tag! The colors and styles are breathtaking!

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  8. Very cool - love your birdcage and the "schmear" description cracked me up.... will not think of those paints the same way again.

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  9. Amazing tag! Love the framed bird with the cage offset!

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  10. this is beautiful...love the color combo...

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