Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tim's Tag Day 2 + Tutorial!

Hi everyone! Today I not only made a tag - I also created a little tutorial. I don't know if any of you saw my tags last year, but there were a few times when I had what I called a 'MacGyver' moment, when I had to create something that would work in place of an item Tim used that I didn't have. I live in the boonies, 40 minutes from the nearest stamp store that carries a lot of the elements that he uses, and I am just too lazy to pop out and get something....so I've become fairly adept at adapting.

This time the element was the rose he created by cutting apart metal flowers. I had just bought a Martha Stewart hydrangea punch last week and the gears started turning......

You will need several colors of metallic embossing powder (I used gold, black, and two kinds of silver), flower punch, VersaMark, heat gun, and tweezers.

Start by punching flowers out of black cardstock and covering with VersaMark. Then sprinkle various metallic embossing powders on flowers. Tap to remove excess.

Heat until embossing powder melts. See how cool the mixed metallics look?! If you're happy, you can move to the next step. If you'd like to add more, just dab on more VersaMark and add more ep.

When you're happy with the finish, bend each petal up and curl as shown. Do this with three flowers.

Cut one flower in half and cut one petal off another. Punch holes in the center of each flower.

Assemble using a hammered brad.

I didn't have the petals Tim used, so I embossed another Marth-punched branch using silver embossing powder. Why have I not done that 'til now? It looks really cool!

Finished tag. The scanner squished my flower a little, but I think you get the general effect. I really wanted to use Grungepaper for this, but the Martha punches are a bit on the puny side. I tried to punch and it didn't want to, so I didn't push it. I think if you have a small flower die, you could use Grungepaper and it would come out even better.

Hope this helps someone else who is embellishment-poor. Oh, and I apologize for some of the blurry pics, it's dark and overcast today so my lighting stunk!

Sentiment is from Artistic Outpost's fantastic Christmas collection.

22 comments:

  1. Nice improvisation Shelley! I had to do the same on Tag 1 with the Dymo label thing. I had a label maker, but no black tape for it, so I used black cardstock cut into a strip instead, worked great! Love your tag!

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  2. Awesome Shelley. Thank you so much for sharing the "how-to".

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  3. Nice job! I would have never guessed your flower was made of cardstock. :)

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  4. Love your "metal" flowers and your tag is gorgeous!

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  5. FABULOUS Flower and Tag, Shelly!!! Great idea :)

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  6. Love your version of the flower!!!
    Awesome!

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  7. Great tag! I am loving seeing how everyone improvises with what they have available to make something sorta like what he demonstrated. TFS.

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  8. Love the substitute flower!!! Thanks for the tutorial....

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  9. LOVE how you improvised and gave it your own creative touch!!

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  10. Wow! love your flower. You're so creative!!

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  11. Shelly, I've got to think even Tim would be impressed with that flower! (He may not be happy that you didn't drive the 40 minutes to buy his product, but he'd be impressed.) I certainly am...it's fabulous!

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  12. How smart is this!!! Thanks for sharing a "what to do when you don't have T!m's metal flower" moment! Very clever!!

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  13. Great way to improvise. Thanks for sharing how you did it too.

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  14. clever thinking . I think I'd rather cut the embossed paper versions than the real thing.

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  15. Amazing - I love that you have taken his ideas and made them even better - I am a fan of yours now!

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  16. I just tried your version of the metallic flower. It worked great. Love your blog.

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  17. Very pretty!!!! I love your take on Tim's tag. Thanks for stopping by my blog :o)

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  18. Oh fabulous!!! I love how you did the flower! You're so clever!

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  19. I'm so impressed with your creativity; I'm glad I found your blog through the 12 tags event :D Where did you get the frame stamp you gold embossed on this tag? It's beautiful.

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  20. Thanks Teri, it's from at set by Fancy Pants called Blissful Season.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. I appreciate your comments so much!