April Tag

This is the first time I have entered the Tim Holtz 12 tags..but after seeing the board my lovely friend Kirsten did...I thought I'm going to have a go at this!! I absolutely love the new frameworks dies and knew I'd be buying them the minute I saw them on the CHA previews!! You can pop over and see Kirstens here. So off I went to Tim's blog..and wow what a lovely tag!! You can see it here.
Seeing as I was short on time (what's new) I followed along with what Tim did. I don't have the pine cone die so used my mini tattered flowers and leaves instead.

I Absoloutely loved doing this tag and it gave me a chance to use one of my frameworks!! Just have to wait for the rest of the great new releases to hit the UK!!..

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Have a Heart

Just a quick post...I have been playing around this morning before getting ready for work. I had a go at Frances project on day 1 over on the PA blog. You can see it here.

I took a size 8 tag and gave it a thin coat of blood orange, dried that and added a thin coat of crackle glaze, dried that and added a layer of snowflake. I distressed the edges and added a small amount of black ink.
Next I cut two paper artsy primitive hearts and stuck them together, added a thick layer of grunge paste and pushed a chain into it....let that all dry. I painted it in london bus and when that was dry sanded it back to reveal some of the grunge paste underneath. I gave it 2 coats of gloss glaze and let that dry.
To finish it off I wrapped some chain around and added a tiny padlock and key from my stash..stuck it to the tag and added some black ribbon.

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