12 Tags of 2012 June Tag

Wow ... Tim totally  amazed me with these techniques for the June tag. Each month gets more challenging. BUT ... I was up for the challenge! Again I delayed my start of this tag ( you know how disappointed I get when I don't have EVERYTHING) to plan alternate embellishments and to hunt for a particular photo that I wanted to use. This was my second choice (boomer... could not between my siblings and I put my hands on the photo I wanted to use)... I'm not too disappointed!  I didn't have tattered rose stain, no cute clips and no mini numbers ... guess what's on my wish list? Okay, on to the positive stuff... I used victorian  velvet stain for my background and then used tattered rose distress ink for the flower. Oh I did not have the file tabs either but I found some tabs in my stash...I loved the stamp Tim used with definition but I did not have that one so I went to my trusty stash again ( I'm getting better at this... I really prefer using what Tim uses... it gives me a sense of "power"... BUT I'm learning to use "MY STASH" )... YAY Me !!  Tinting the photo was a challenge, I did not have nibs so I used my blending stump ... interesting ... I liked it when I finished but not in the process, my subject was difficult to work with as the photo was light and I could not see the detail as well as I would have liked... but a fun technique ( add nibs and nib holder to the wish list). I really got excited at this point, the elements were beginnings to flow together. I had colorized my ribbon with frayed burlap and went back and added just a little bit of tattered rose and a smidge of victorian velvet to my mat and then rolled my crumpled damp ribbon in it , dried it with my heat tool ... love this color mixture. If you have not checked out Tim's tag go check it out http://timholtz.com/12-tags-of-2012-june/ it is awesome,  and the techniques are really fun ! Well ... see you next month ...