' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Metal and chalk

Monday 11 January 2016

Metal and chalk

Tim Holtz is reviewing some of his "old" techniques in his 12 tags of 2016 and January is a very industrial mix of metal and chalkboard. I was inspired to try ...

For a complete step by step I will refer you to the master over here as I followed the steps fairly closely. My focal image, stamped on black cardstock, is an image by Katzelkraft, or rather a very small portion, and represents a helicoidal clock, which I thought could be suitable for a Steampunk vibe.

I tried to make it stand out a bit more by popping up the spiral with increasing heights of foam pads but not enough to show in the picture.

To emboss the tag I used a Docrafts Plaid embossing folder, as on metal I thought it looked industrial.

I replaced the metal embellishment by an embossed word on the same black cardstock as I felt I needed that extra contrast of stark white against black with the rest of the tag being so grey! (Yes I know it looks blue in the photo.... the weather is just not cooperative and the natural light is hard to come by)


Thanks for coming by,

10 comments:

  1. This is one of those where you just want to reach out and touch Christine because you know how much lovely texture there is.

    B x

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  2. Nice texture and wonderful metal look to it

    Love Chrissie xx

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  3. Great man's tag Christine plus the spiral clock in the middle is just what I could have done with for my next project, ah well can't have everything can we!!!!

    Warm crafty hugs from Shirl x x x
    ShirlsCards.

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  4. C'est super chouette et bien pensé comme toujours, tu fais des merveilles avec ce que tu as, bravo Christine !!!
    J'espère que j'aurais le temps de faire au moins quelques-un des tags de Tim cette année.. ça fait partie de mes projets! de même que participer plus régulièrement aux challenges FSC/VSC, mais en utilisant si possible les tampons Flonzcraft...
    Bises

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  5. That's an amazing tag, really wonderful.
    So sorry, that I haven't been around for months. So I'm a bit late in wishing you a healthy, lucky and creative year 2015.

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  6. Gorgeous tag, it's got so much dimension. Thanks so much for joining us at We Love 2 Create for our 'Anything Mixed Media/Creative Goes' challenge
    Claire xx

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  7. Great take on Tim's tag and a wonderful steampunk tag too! Thank you for sharing it with us at SanDee&amelie's Steampunk Challenges!

    Claudia x

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  8. Wow! This is such a fabulous tag! Just saw that you won over at Pan Pastels challenge!!! Woo hoo. Yay for you! Congrats!!!

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