My inky travels along life's rocky road

Monday 16 July 2012

Tim Holtz Tag - July


This month's tag on Tim Holtz's blog has proved to be yet another challenge! I wasn't really inspired by the 4th of July theme so I decided to go in my own direction. I didn't have any canned air so I improvised with a Blitzer (a spongy, puffy thing you use to get a sort of airbrushed effect with pens). I had the sailboat blue & watermelon inks that he used but only had gold mixative (& a bit of an odd, mouldy looking gold at that). Instead of Independence Day I decided to focus on something closer to home so I used my Scottish Border Stamp image of Big Ben (a pretty iconic London structure) and used the slogan 'reach for the stars' to give my version of  the Olympic motto of  'citius, altius, fortius' with the Xcut numerals '2012'. The image was mounted onto blue & red card and the edges were distressed. I didn't have any red baker's twine so I made my own with plain twine and added some red chequered ribbon. A couple of diecut & embossed shapes replaced the ideology pieces. Well 7 months in and I'm still managing to hang in there - quite an achievement!

8 comments:

  1. Very patriotic and great for the forthcoming events. Zx

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  2. Great Britsh take on Tim's tag - love your Big Ben image!

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  3. Brilliant and love the image! Xxx

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  4. Oh yea, Tim is my man, creative at it best. Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving the sweet comments. Hugs

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  5. I love the bright splotches in the background! This is one of the prettiest tags I've seen!

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  6. wow this is awesome!!! Beautiful tag! I love your color choice with this stamp!

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  7. The Big Ben stamp looks amazing. I think its much nicer to do your own thing anyway. Love this tag. Sx

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  8. Wow this is fab and really catches the eye x

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