Wednesday 10 August 2011

Wish upon a star!

It seems to have been ages since I entered any challenges and I know I won't have time for anything next week, so I made this tag to go in three challenges at once!

Firstly, it's for Grungy Monday where we have to use the Tim Holtz technique from 12 tags of Christmas 2010 day 10 (see linky here). This also means I can also enter Simon Says Stamp and Show, where the theme is show a Tim technique.

So I started off playing around with a couple of backgrounds and some embossed acetate/plastic packinging . Then I started thinking what I could do with it (working backwards as usual!). I added a few embellishments and realised that the whole thing reminded me a little of celestial charts - probably more to do with the colour than anything else - and so 'wish upon a star' seemed fitting... perfect for Hels Sheridan's Sunday Stampers wish theme this week.



The tag base was roughly painted with baltic blue fresco finish paint and I tried to rub some off before it dried to give it a more grungy texture. I then sprayed it with some blue/turquoise perfect pearls mist which has given it a wonderful petrol sheen (unfortunately it can't really be seen under the acetate, but I'll definitely be using this paint/pearl combination again). The tag and acetate were cut with Tim's large tag die and the acetate was embossed with a the retro circles embossing folder. The clock faces are cut from some Tim paper stash - I really loved how these looked with the circles on the acetate!

I stamped 'wish' and 'a' onto paper and used with bits from a 'make your own brad' set, and although you can't see it too well in the picture, 'upon' and 'star' are stamped around the edge of two of the clock faces.


So my wish for this week is that all the senseless violence spreading around this country ends soon. They were interviewing two teenage girls on the radio last night who hoped the riots would carry on because it was 'good fun'!!! It really makes me angry how mindless it all is, but I'll stop there before I really start ranting.

That's all for now. Stay safe and stay inky :0)

Sarah
xx

20 comments:

  1. Wow what a great way to use the Retro Texture Fade! A super tag!

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  2. beautiful tag .... love the effect of the circles - it does look 'celestial clock'
    xx tonyR

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  3. Hope all is ok with you. Brilliant tag. It does look celestial.
    Regards Florence.

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  4. Gorgeous! Loving all those fabby elements, thanks for joining in with the Sunday sTamper x

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  5. This is my absolute favorite so far. Brilliant the way the embellishments fit the embossing and it does look like a celestial chart! Very amazing tag!

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  6. Great tag, Sarah! Love how you've worked with the embossed circles on the plastic, adding the embellishments above/below randomly.

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  7. The embossing is just fabulous! Beautiful Tag.
    Thanks for entering Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge!
    Renee, Simon Says Stamp

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  8. Fabulous tag - love the acetate embossing - great effect. X Karen

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  9. Great way to use the retro fade folder, brilliant!

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  10. Wow, that's breathtaking. Love how you've incorporated the embellishment into the plastic.

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  11. Great textures and fabulous use of circle shapes and forms! Love the blue and silver tones too.
    Thanks so much for joining us at Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge!

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  12. Well you have made a fabulous tag here... I love your work as you know and don't visit as often as I should.... this was worth the visit and some...
    Frankie
    xx

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  13. This is really beautiful! I keep looking back at it trying to figure out what element I like most... I can't - I love it all. I also really enjoyed your note about "working backwards" as I feel that's when I get the most creative! :) I just think this tag is perfection

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  14. Hello! LOVE your tag! Love the dry embossing and then the time pieces you used to accentuate some of the round gear forms. The colors are really nice, too! Love the plastic piece over it and then how you finished it out with the metal embellishments. Well done! Thanks for sharing it with us at Simon Says Stamp and Show Challenge. <3 Candy

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  15. What pretty piece of art you've created! Amazing how you've used the background embossing to feature all your embellishments! Beautiful.

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  16. This is great - so clever! Beautiful!

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  17. You are not the only one who works backwards, and it has certainly paid off with this beautifully executed project.x

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  18. Wow, i love this tag. Just gorgeous♥.

    Hugs Marita♫♫

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  19. Gorgeous tag and it really does look like a celestial chart, I love the effect. I also love the Baltic Blue Fresco Finish........another one I'll have to pop in the basket :D. It's such a relief that the rioting has quietened down, horrible to watch society degenerate like that, hopefully this is the end of it. x

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