Anyone that has taken many classes with me know I truly love to pull out a stack of magazines and use them as the bases for creating cards and books. We tear out picture of images, bold, bright or soft colors, and words, lots and lots of words. Anything that makes our hearts sing. Then the fun begins when we tear or cut these images and words and start collaging them with some of our stamp images from stampofexcellence.com.
Toady's blog is along this line. I want to show you a fun way to "go green" creatively. First, find a page in a magazine, or try wrapping paper, that color wise touches your heart.
Can't you almost smell these glorious roses? Loved this image! First step, find your perfect page and tear it out. Next, take a #8 shipping tag, and with one of our Glue Brushes GLB699, spread a thin layer of The Ultimate! Crafter's Pick™ glue over most of the tag. I like to leave the corners and edges a little under glued so when you tear away the paper the entire tag is not covered, (explain later).
Turn the glued tag onto the back of your magazine page trying to land on the part of the image you most want. (The image needs to be at least an inch or more larger than your tag on all sides.) Turn back over and use a bone folder to adhere the image to the tag, making sure any air bubbles are smoothed out and that the glue is thin and even. Let dry naturally or use a heat tool to speed glue drying time. Once dry, hold tag with the back facing you. Using the tag edges to help, roughly tear the excess page away from your tag. For a vintage aged effect it is nice if the tears are not all straight and if small edges or corners of the tag are not covered with the printed paper. In other words, you don't want this to come out looking perfect.
Next, pick one or two ink colors to sponge around the edges of your tag front inking more heavily where the colored paper is missing. If you enlarge my finished tag you may be able to see what I mean.
Now comes the creative part, stamping complementary images to your pictured tag. To complete my tag I first die cut two sizes of scalloped tags. I stamped Special Day Flowers 3025G and embossed with Black Diamonds embossing powder. Glued small white tag to larger pink tag, and with 3D dots attached the image tags to my #8 rose tag. To accent the flower theme, using Tim Holtz® new Sizzix Mini Butterfly set, (love these!!!), I cut two rose colored butterflies and two soft pink velum butterflies. I used pink ink to edges the two velum butterflies and glued them to the flower version. For bling, I ran a line of Cotton Candy Stickles™ down the body of each butterfly. Once dried I glued the two part butterflies to the tag. For the last perfect touch, I added two matching lengths of perfectly pink ribbon.
This magazine picture art is so fun, easy and affordable! I will do a few different tags and post them in the coming days as time allows. Please give this technique a try and let me know what you think.
May creative bliss be yours,
Judi