Scissor Sister?

This is a little box of scissors and other craft tools I keep on my workdesk, think I may have a secret desire to become Sidney Scissorhands !!

This is also this weeks entry into WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday) run by the lovely Julia over on the Stamping Ground blog.  Why not go and have a nosey at loads of desks & things?

Will be visiting yours to have a look at what you have got on show too !!

Sid xx

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Tag Line-up

Done absolutely no crafting since Christmas Eve.  I just thought you might like to see all 12 of my versions of the '12 Tags of Christmas' as they are displayed on some bookshelves in my lounge. So here they are !

Hope you all had a fantastic Christmas !

Sid xx

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS to you all !!

Here is wishing all my visitors, bloggers and friends a very Merry and Peaceful Christmas 2010 .  The year has really flown by (a sign of old age. I think)  Thanks for all your comments which are really very appreciated and hoping for a Fantastic New Year.

Sid xx

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Timmy's Tag Day 12

Phew.....just finished the LAST one before Christmas Day !  This is it, another feat of improvisation.

The Base tag was cut from white card and a piece of Tim's paper adhered and lightly rubbed over with pearl acrylic Dabber.  The egdes were distressed with course sandpaper and coloured with vintage photo Distress Ink.  I don't own any movers and shapers dies so I just cut a circle of grungepaper and heat embossed it twice with dark maroon embossing powder held in place with Versamark ink.  I coloured the chipboard letter directly with barn door DI and added a few pink stickles to the edges before sticking onto the bauble.  The bauble was then stuck in place with Glossy Accents and a little green ribbon bow applied at the top and some gold ribbon and brad to act as a hanger (no wire on mine !).

 

The calender month of December was cut from TH papers and edged with vintage photo DI and stuck in place on foam pads.

 

The holly leaves are green sequins applied with red brads (as berries) in a little group at the top of the calender as shown.

 

Final touches were to add a gold eyelet with the crop-a-dile and to thread through some red ribbon tied in a loop.

Done IT !!  Now to relax with a little sherry..............

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Timmy's Tag Day 11

Here we go again with Tag No. 11 ....... Yipeee!!! just one more to go.  Once more really heavily improvised, only the Distress inks were Rangers !!

The background was made from white card covered in Yellow Pages paper heat embossed with detail clear embossing powder, a snowflake stamp and Versamark ink.  It was coloured with faded denim, cracked glass and stormy sky Distress inks and edged  (after distressing) with blue iris chalk ink.  I had no tree die so stamped with a PaperArtsy swirly tree and Versamark,  heat embossing with dark green embossing powder with some of the branches topped with frosted lace Stickles..  The other tree was another PaperArtsy stamp inked in black Archival ink on green textured card.  I have treated the spots with more of the dark green EP, added a little silver pen at the top and applied frosted lace Stickles (ohhh that makes 3 Ranger products now!).  The trunk was wrapped round with some blue fine metallic thread and tied off before mounting on foam pads as shown. 

The top of the tree was finished with a gold star brad poked through with a pokey tool.

The brass nameplate was added with brads after cutting a little oval of white card to fit the aperture and colouring with antique linen DI.  The words were also coloured with the same ink and stuck in place with Glossy Accents (4 Ranger items !).

Finishing touches were to add a gold eyelet with the crop-a-dile and thread through with some gold ribbon adorned with a gold charm.

Sid xx

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Timmy's Tag Day 10

Here is Tag No.10.  Nearly there now !  Just 2 more to go in the Tim Holtz '12 Tags of Christmas' series.

This one again is much improvised.  The snowman is not a diecut but a stencil marked onto grungeboard and cut out with scissors.  I have used pearl Acrylic Dabber instead of snow cap.  The hat was coloured with brown paint, the nose with orange and the arms made from card and coloured with Marvey Le Plume II pens. 

At least the background is as it should be !

The holly on his hat is a punch and the berries are red brads. The ribbon is a piece of chiffon ribbon. The words are self adhesive stickers.

The clear plastic packaging is from a sizzix pack and the embossing folder is not the snowflake one. It has been attached with brads and a clip.

Finishing touches were to apply an eyelet with the crop-a-dile and to thread a piece of silver mesh ribbon through the hole adding a charm and a snowflake brad to hold in place.

Sid xx

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Timmy's Tag Day 9

Another one of Tim's Tags, this one is No.9 and now only 3 to go before Christmas Day ! I started with a white tag, cut to size.  The background was made using a music stamp (?) inked with Archival black ink and stamped twice at the top of the tag.  The colouring was done using wild honey and brushed corduroy Distress inks rubbed onto a non-stick craft mat and sprayed with some pumpkin blush Glitz Spritz mica spray with the tag being smooshed through the inks and dried with the heat gun a couple of times.  The edges of the tag were roughed up with coarse sandpaper and inked with walnut stain DI.

The bottom of the tag was measured out and a row of pewter brads applied and these were battered with the edge of a small hammer to distress them.  The rosette was made using the TH (Sizzix) die out of TH printed paper and was edged with walnut stain DI and sprayed with the pumpkin blush spray.  The centre was decorated with an old button applied on a glue dot.  I had no tinsel so I used some fancy ribbon applied behind the rosette as shown.

The letters were die- cut from dark brown linen effect card using the Sizzix 'The Ginchiest' typeface and the Big Shot, stuck in place with glue-pen and glossed with Glossy Accents.  The rosette was then stuck in place with a large glue-dot.

Finishing touches were to add an eyelet with the crop-a-dile and thread through some brown and silver ribbons and apply a dangly piece of old jewellery.  The other embellishments were a brad holding some more of the silver ribbon in place and two gold dew-drops.

Sid xx

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Timmy's Tag Day 8

Once more a belated Tim's Tag....this time it's No.8.  Again I have improvised heavily.  The only real TH stuff is the Distress inks and the houses Sizzix ' On The Edge' Die along with rock candy Stickles and Tissue tape.

The sleigh and reindeer are made from stencils applied over a blank white tag with masking tape to obscure everything but the images.  Rubbed over with fired brick Distress Ink and then stamped with a snowflake stamp in black Archical ink.  The stencils were then removed and some masks made from these images.  With the masks in place I used  stormy sky DI and overstamped with a flourish stamp (?) in black Arcihval ink.  Once the masks were removed the effect was quite similar to that of Tims.

The houses were diecut from grungeboard, coloured with turquoise acrylic paint and grunged with coarse sandpaper before applying smoke made from florists wire and rock candy Stickles before sticking down with Glossy accents.

The clockface was made from an original clear watchglass stuck over a cutout of a clockface with glossy accents.  The finger was again a real finger stuck on with glossy accents.  A metal corner embellishment was added as shown.

Finishing touches were to add the words on a piece of tissue tape and to add an eyelet with the crop-a-dile, threaded through with ribbons and an old bit of a beaded necklace.

Sid xx

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Triplets ATC's

By way of a change from Tags !  These are three collage style ATC's I have made for a swap over on UK Stampers Forum.  The theme was '3 of a kind'.  I have used mini tags as my theme, 3 on each ATC and because it's December have given them a festive feel with Stickles, sequins and overstamping !

Sid xx

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Timmy's Tag Day 7

Next one in the series of Tim Holtz Tags............this one is Day 7 and I am determined to finish the series before Christmas Day.  The background tag was made from white card first coloured with wild honey Distress Ink and a blending tool.  I didn't have the woodgrain embossing folder so I used a cuttlebug folder that  I did have and coloured the folder with walnut stain DI before embossing.  The tag was then edged with vintage photo DI after roughing up with course sandpaper.

The poinsettia came next and I did use the two Sizzix dies to produce the petals and leaves but this time I used linen cardstock instead of grungepaper, once coloured and cut out I assembled all of the petals on 3 large sticky dots finishing off with a large pale green plastic gem.

The letters were actually white flock self adhesive ones that I first coloured with fired brick DI and heat dried before sticking onto the tag.  The flourish was cut from Grungeboard and coloured with white brilliant white emulsion paint before colouring the edges with vintage photo DI.  This was cut in two and applied with Glossy Accents as shown.

Finishing touches were to apply a gold eyelet with the crop-a-dile and add a short length of silk ribbon, threaded through and tied around with some green wire.  I cut the 25 from some of Tims printed paper, coloured the edge stuck in place and added a half pearl .  That's it !!

Sid xx

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