Happy 2014 and welcome to my blog. This is my third year participating in Tim's monthly tag challenge. For those of you that have been here before, you know that I'm a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and I try to mimic Tim's techniques using all SU products.
For January's tag I cut a layered clock using my silhouette and placed it over a piece of aluminum HVAC tape that I ran through my woodgrain embossing folder. The base for the tag is black card stock and distressed vellum stamped with a world map. The numbers are white rub ons. If you'd like to see last year's tags click here.
Although I loved the original tag I made for September, I really wanted to try the foil technique. So, I went searching through the garage and found some foil tape. This turned out to be really awesome stuff. I didn't have any alcohol ink so I used black StazOn which I managed to spread over the foil before it dried. I also had a leftover silhouette image from August's tag that I really wanted to use but I was having a hard time seeing the image when I placed it directly on the foil. To solve the problem I chose a piece of burlap ribbon to contrast the hard industrial look of the foil. Once again all the paper and embellishments are from Stampin' Up!. The foil and burlap ribbon are not.
