12 tags of 2015 - December

Hi everyone,

It's time for the last tag of December 2015. Tim has made another super beautiful tag. It's such a fun challenge to make a Tim tag every month. I hope he continues this in 2016!

The only thing I had that he uses the flourish stencil and Ground Espresso. For all the other products I used alternatives. Like the Postbox Red spray. Wow, what a super super super colorful red that is. As a focal point, I've use the Woodland die. To give it some extra dimension I cut a second out and cut it into pieces and adhered it on the back of the tree. To give it more the fullness as the wreath Tim made.

 

I don't have the bow die, but I drew the bow shape roughly and cut it out with scissors. I printed the banner. That font is so cool!



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12 tags of 2015 - November

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Yep, I did it again, waited till almost the last day with the November tag from the 12 tags of 2015. Tim has made yet another awesome tag. I like the background technique, it's really cool. But the golden edges are absolutely my favorite.

 

My tag isn't inspired by Autumn. Especially since I don't have a good autumn stamp that I can color in. So I've grabbed the time traveler's set.



For coloring I used no water color paper, but normal cardstock. I've coated it with Multimedium Matt so I can color and blend easily. The only downside of this method is that you can't really build up the color. It makes it a bit more difficult, but that's okay.



The letters Traveler on the black background with the golden edges, reminds me of a comic book logo. As if the Time Traveler is a comic hero. That might very well be true.

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12 tags of 2015 - October

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The 12 tags are always fun to do, but the month of October with a Halloween tag, that really makes me extra happy! Tim has made for the 12 tags or 2015 - October a masterful tag with his new monster masks. These are so cool, but I'm using the Undertaker for my tag.

For the background, I first created a pattern with most of the Undertaker label and text stamps and I masked the small stamps off. With Spiced Marmalade, Rusty Hinge and Ground Espresso Distress Ink I've colored background.

 

I absolutely love love love the new Undertaker stamp set and so far I've been using this stamp set for all my Halloween projects. And the bigUndertaker is well suited to make it 3D. I stamped the Undertaker three times, and cut out the hat, as the top layer. For the second layer I've cut out the whole Undertaker minus a part of his right jaw. Also cut out the eye sockets, his nose and parts of his jaw cut. The final layer is completely cut out as a whole.





I'm also entering at Frilly & Funkie with this tag.

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12 tags of 2015 - September

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It's time for the 12 tags of 2015 - September. Tim has done another gorgeous tag with amazing techniques!

Tim had a lot of rainbow colors, I have limited it to the Halloween colors like orange and purple. I have attempted to give the butterflies and moths a little spooky vibe on this tag. Not sure if it worked ... LOL!

 

This time I used against Tim's advice double sided gloss paper. It isn't necessarily photo paper. It seems to work fine with the alcohol inks. Funny side effect is that the ink bleeds through the paper and gives a fabulous colored back.





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12 tags of 2015 - August

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What a cool tag Tim has made for the August one of the 12 tags of 2015! I like the grungy colors. For my tag I wanted happy bright colors, because of the theme of my tag. But also because it's still summer, and want to hold on to it as long as possible...

The picture of the girl with her doll I found on tumblr. Unfortunately I didn't save the link, else I could have shared this picture. The inspiration for this tag is looking back on great memories.
I only have the Christmas word blocks, so I made my own words with the Alpha Thinlits. I was surprised I could make all the words that I wanted in one go. Wow!



The new design tape is perfect for keeping thinlits together. The adhesive isn't too strong and it leaves no residue.I printed the girl with the laser printer on white cardstock. After a layer of Multi Medium Matte, I did some photo tinting.

 

For the rest, I followed Tim's instruction as far as I had the supplies.










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12 tags of 2015 - July

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It's 12 tags of 2015 time again for the month of July, and I didn't wait until the end of the month. Oh yeah! Maybe this will stick... Tim has made another super stunning tag.

I actually had none of the basic elements, like the stamps, and the paper that he used for the background. I've therefore chosen  Tissue Wrap and a few of the Paris to London stamps. Despite that they are minis, they're still too big for the #8 tag and used a # 10 tag instead. I've always used the #8 tags, and I almost forgot I had larger ones.



A blessing in disguise when I the English flag stamp didn't complete take on the Distress cardstock, now I could color it :).



Luckily I did have the MicroGlaze, that stuff is amazing. I also use it on envelopes when I have something that isn't waterproof. Must apply a very thin layer and remove the excess so that it no longer sticks. Otherwise it becomes a mess at the post office :).



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