Creating Rusty backgrounds using distress products

Hi friends! I am so excited about the new idea-ology product that Tim is releasing this year that I decided to sit down and create!  My favorite line of his is by far the idea-ology. Now Don't get me wrong, I couldn't create this rusty grunge without his distress line, but I love how the idea-ology brings it to life. 

This week's Monday challenge over at SSS is home decor. I don't typically enter challenges, but I decided to enter my projects this week.  

I created two process videos showing how this was put together. The first video focuses on creating a Rust background that you see on the voltage die. 

 The second video is how I used that die as my focal piece on my tags.  These tags are the ectetera tags from Tim Holtz and make great decor pieces. 

I created two voltage plates, so I was able to actually create two finished projects. I have them both hanging on my wall in my studio!

Part 1 - Creating Rusty Backgrounds

Part 2 - Creating Rusty Backgrounds

Enjoy!

Vintage Christmas Card

Hi everyone. I am here to share with you my first vintage Christmas card of the season. I was anxious to use some vintage music sheets I purchased from a used bookstore this summer. I knew they would be great to use on cards.

Parisian Christmas

Hi everyone and happy Thursday! I got some exciting news yesterday. I was accepted to participate in Amazon Handmade. This is a new selling forum that Amazon just launched and you have to apply to be able to list.

I am still setting up my Amazon Store, but I thought I would try it out and see how it compares to Etsy. So far, it does not appear that there are any listing fees, so that will enable me to list as I make them and not be too concerned about paying for it only to be listed for 3 months.

I wanted to share with you my very fist listing.

I got this stamp from Stampendous months ago and I was thrilled to finally be able to use it. I love the way these cards came out. Very simple to make, yet very elegant. The paper I used below is from DCWV called The Rustic Stack.

Here is the listing to my Amazon store. I only have one item listed, but I am still testing the waters: Taylormadecard4u.

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Woman Collage Passport - Vintage card in 30 minutes

Hi friends. I am here to share with you this card I put together in about 30 minutes. I find most of the time goes into the planning and the layout, but once you have your stash together, the cards go together pretty quickly.

A beautiful vintage card can really take less than 30 minutes to put together. Let me show you what I did.

First I stamped my image on some script paper I got from the paper stack called Vintage treasures.
Then I stamped the Hotel Saint Peres Paris part of the stamp onto 7 gypsies postale paper. I fussy cut the circle and put aside.

I punched out my butterflies using my EK butterfly punch from the 7 gypsies postale paper stack and glued the 3 punches together.

I distressed all my paper edges using walnut stain distressing ink and then started adhering my paper. The lace was added to the bottom of the stamped image. I added washi tape to the decorative paper that was to be attached to my 5" x 7" card stock.

I always adhere my base designer paper to my cardstock prior to adhering my 3-D images.
The butterfly, pearls and circle Hotel Saint Peres Paris were adhered to card.

The game piece was put together as follows:

I first added alcohol ink to the sides of the plastic and let dry. Then I cut out an image from the graphic 45 collection and adhered it using crackle accent. I distressed the sided once it was dry and then covered the top image with crackle accents using my finger. Once the game piece was dry, I adhered it to my card.

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