Butterfly Tag

I follow Tim Holz 12 Tags of 2015 and love to see what he comes up with every month. His March tag is one of my favorites because I LOVE bright colors and I LOVE butterflies.  Check out his tutorial on his blog.

Beautiful, right?

I happen to have a large butterfly stamp from Stampin' Up! that is perfect for this project so I figured I would make my own March tag. I used a different stencil for the gold and added the 3 for the third month, March. Here is my butterfly tag:

 

Here are some closeups where you can see the colors better:

Supplies:

Ranger #10 Manila Tags

Distress Paints:  Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry, Seedless Preserves, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers

Crackle Stencil by Stencil Girl

Ranger Texture Paste:  Transparent Matte

Gold Embossing Powder

VersaFine Black Pigment Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Stampin' Up! Swallowtail Stamp

Background Script Stamp

Ribbon

Embellishments

I love the technique that Tim Holtz uses to create many of his backgrounds, including this month's tag. Here's a quick description of the technique:  Place about a nickle size of each paint color on a craft sheet and spritz with water. Drag your tag through it once or twice, careful to not repeat to many times or you will get mud!  Spritz the tag with paint to blend the colors then dry with a heat gun. 

I had such fun with this technique that I grabbed a bunch of smaller tags and kept going!  Here they are:

  

I think that last one is my favorite!  Have you made a March tag this month? Or tried a new technique lately?  I'd love to hear about it so leave me comments below!  

  

More Creative Chemistry Technique Tags

I've had so much fun playing with all the techniques I've learned in Tim Holtz's online class. I highly recommend it, and it is still available.  Here is the link for more info about it:
http://www.onlinecardclasses.com/
Here are more technique tags:

Stencil Stamping

I used the stencil with molding paste

to create the background. 

Stencil Stamping Detail

Paint Monoprint using Distress Paints

Paint Monoprint Detail

The bee is a Tim Holtz rub-on.

Ink Monoprint using Distress Inks and stencils

Monoprint using Alcohol Inks

Rusting with Distress Embossing Powder

I used Tea Stain Distress EP and added some copper EP.

Rusting with Distress Embossing Powder Detail

Mixed Media Layering

Embossing Through Stencils

Embossing Through Stencils Detail

Eroded Metallic

The background is the technique but the

embellishment was a happy experiment of my own.

Eroded Metallic Detail

I used a die cut chipboard piece and randomly applied crackle paint.

After it dried, I applied black Distress Paint and then I sprayed it with copper

Perfect Pearls mist. I was surprised that the mist was so visible

on the black paint. I LOVE the effect. 

 

Chalkboard Technique

Faded Layers using alcohol inks

Shabby Chic

Tarnished Silver

Faux Patina

There are lots more techniques that I haven't finished yet!  Thanks for visiting my blog and make a comment below if you like what you see.    

Just one more!!!!!

Brayered Distress Stains

Don't know if the photo picked it up but I had to

"bling it out" with metallic stain here and there.