Spring Tag With Tim Holtz Tattered Butterfly and Prima Havana

Welcome! Today I'm sharing a pretty spring birthday tag featuring Tim Holtz Tattered Butterfly and Adorned die cuts and Prima Havana papers, flowers and ephemera. A heavy kraft oversized tag is covered with the paper front and back. I put my birthday greeting on the back, since there really wasn't room on the front.

Tattered Butterfly was cut from the designer paper and burlap paper. I cut a couple of flourishes using  Adorned Thinlits die and colored with Distress Oxide spray and ink. The flowers, greenery, papers and butterfly get help holding their shape with Prima Sculpture Medium and everything was adhered with Distress Collage Medium Matte.

I was able to coordinate a white gardenia with Abandoned Coral oxide ink and dripped some Distress Spray Stain in the same color on the background. Cracked Pistachio oxide ink tones down the bright green of the leaves and I also splashed some of that on the background. Edges were blended with Ground Espresso ink.

I hope you like my tag as much as I liked making it! It was fun creating something with no agenda, but I'd still like to share with a couple of my favorite challenge blogs. Thanks for stopping by! Hugs and blessings! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Happy Birthday!

Simon Says Stamp Monday Tag It

Country View Challenges May 2019 - Opposites Soft, light and feminine colors with rough burlap and heavy twine.

Scrapy Land Challenge #113 Anything Goes I used 2 Sizzix dies and a Penny Black die.

Allsorts Week 517 Mothers Day/Feminine

Dies R Us Challenge #120 - Flowers I used 2 Sizzix dies and a Penny Black die .

Mixed Media Place April Challenge  I was inspired by the pink flowers and soft greens.

These products were used and can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Die - Tattered Butterfly

Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Adorned

Distress Oxide Sprays

Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Ground Espresso	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Cracked Pistachio	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Abandoned Coral	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Abandoned Coral TSS44079	Prima Marketing Havana Flowers - Camila
Prima Marketing Ephemera - Havana	Prima Marketing A4 Paper Pad - Havana	Prima Art Extravagance: Sculpture Medium - Clear	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933

Good Stuff for Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey

Hello friends! It's that special time at A Vintage Journey when we get free crafty play to make a tag for our Tag Friday feature. 

I was inspired by how beautiful things are starting to look in our yard on these first days of spring, in spite of the hurricane damage from last September. The landscape has changed so much with many  trees missing, and the ones that remain twisted and broken. The fences that have been long overgrown with trees and shrubs are now exposed and are crumpled from the fallen trees. But new growth is emerging, and I see the beauty of God's grace and renewal.

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lam. 3:22-23

This was one of my first plays with my new Distress Oxide Sprays, and I really didn't take note of what I was doing. I used Picked Raspberry, and I'm pretty sure that's Cracked Pistachio, even though it appears blue. I like how it turned out, but I'm not a big fan of pink, so I thought of how I could make it more palatable to me with a rusty trellis and a few flicks of watery Rusty Hinge oxide ink.

The Wildflowers Stems and Tattered Butterfly from Tim Holtz are colored with Cracked Pistachio oxide spray with a little Rusty Hinge oxide ink,  brushed straight from the ink pad or watered down and flicked on. The seam binding ribbon was a product of the leftover inks.

The trellis is a die cut I had in my bin that didn't quite cut right. I dabbed on some black metallic texture paste I recently picked up at Tuesday Morning, some Distress Grit Paste and a mix of embossing powders I've had sitting in the embossing powder drawer for a while. I heated all that until it bubbled, and then painted with watery DecoArt Fluid paints -- Q. Gold and Raw Umber, and a drop or two of Caramel alcohol ink. I tore the edges and painted them with Distress Black Soot paint. I brushed the trellis with Prima Sculpture medium, shaped it and allowed it to dry. No matter how I pointed my camera, I couldn't pick up on the dimension of this crumpled rusted 'fence'. I gave the same treatment to the hole reinforcer.

Tim Holtz' Small Talk stickers always have the perfect words.

That's it for me--just a little fun play with my new sprays and some paints. My talented fellow Creative Guides have some wonderful tag inspiration you won't want to miss on the blog. Hope to see you there! Hugs and Blessings! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Play With Paint The trellis and hole reinforcer were colored with paint.

Scrapy Land Challenge #110 Anything Goes I used two Sizzix dies and an old Cherry Lynn die.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - #380-#381
Let's Craft and Create Challenge #145 - ANYTHING GOES + Option Green Things

Links to products used available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Wildflower Stems #2

Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Tattered Butterfly 

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray - Cracked Pistachio

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray - Picked Raspberry

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot TDF52937	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap TIM21469	(LATE OCTOBER PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Rusty Hinge	Distress Grit Paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933
Prima Art Extravagance: Sculpture Medium - Clear	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Caramel	Rayon Seam Binding

Tim Holtz Tattered Butterfly, Distress Oxide Sprays and Alcohol Pearls Tutorial

Hello friends! It's my turn for Saturday Showcase at Frilly and Funkie today. I hope you'll stop by the blog to see how I've used Tim Holtz Tattered Butterfly die and his new Distress Oxide Sprays and Alcohol Pearls. Here's a look at two of the cards, but there's more at Frilly and Funkie, including a tutorial on how I made each of these butterflies and cards!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs and blessings! Sara Emily

Challenge shares (I hope you'll take a hop to see the details):
Simon Says: Whatever The Weather Optimistic for warm sunny weather to bring out REAL butterflies!
Art and Soul March Moodboard Challenge in Soul Sisters Believe in Yourself card

Love 2 Create Challenge #3 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Mix It Up MIUCB #23 - Anything Goes + Inked Background
Scrapy Land Challenge #109 Anything Goes I used 2 Sizzix dies.