Simon Says...

...Tim! Actually, Simon Says Stamp & Show says show us a Tim Holtz Technique... yes, that is the challenge this week over on the ... erm... (I am repeating myself already!!) Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge Blog (wondering now if I mention Simon Says Stamp & Show whether or not I will get carted off to prison for the misuse of English, syntax, sentence construction, over punctuating...actually, when I was at school 99% of my English assignments came back with red words scrawled on saying "punctuation!!!") Anyways, as you can see, I am off on my rambling tangents already...blame it on the celebratory swig of beer I pinched from Grim's glass yesterday... I just cannot hold my drink lol




Right... let's start again... today a new challenge has been set.... oh dear, I am off again... ok, I have made a tag using only the finest products on the market, namely a whole lot of stashly goodies from the fair hand of the one and very only Duke of Distress. So, we have to show a Tim technique... and I chose my ultimate, 100% top ten favouritest technique ever.... Wrinkle Free Distress. Basically, I love this because it means that each time the tag/card/ATC is dipped into the inkyness, it comes up with a totally different look... lushly indeed!



I used Distress Stains to do my Wrinkle Free... first of all, I cut a piece of Crowded Attic paper (YES I am still in my Crowded Attic phase), coated with a light covering of Trad Tan paint, dried it and then smooshed Vintage Photo Stain onto the craft sheet and spritzed with water... dippy, drying, dippy etc... voila! Beautiful background... simples!!! There's a whole lot of Alterations going on too... the butterflies are Movers & Shapers and the Rosettes... ah yes, to die for (geddit, die for... ) I over stamped the butterflies with the butterfly stamp from the ~Spring Sprung~ Tim collection set. Oh and finally, do you see the ickle bottle cap on top of the rosette pile? That is just THE most darling little embellie... from the Bottle Cap Company... which I treated myself to at Ally Pally when I saw Lin demo them... a must have! I cheated slightly, I have a jar full of bottle caps that I bought in a brewery shop for a quid... so I didn't buy the beautiful decorated ones ... instead I painted one of my boring green ones and the spritzed some Espresso Colorwash over the top...



Cor blimey... how much yakking?? Well it is my 1001th post so I am being self indulgent and waffling away... what I am actually doing is putting off chores... sitting here waffling is far nicer than washing up or helping Grim chop down 300foot high nettles... but, alas, I should go really... things to do, inky to get messy with and stamps to play with... thanks for looking... if you got this far lol Have a very goodly day... TTFN!

Hels x