October

Hello Friends. We’re getting so close to Halloween that I need to double up on my blog posts! It’s a non stop blogging over here and I really appreciate all the kind comments you’ve been leaving. Today I’m sharing a tag I made for the LIVE launch of the moody and positively wicked new distress family member, Villainous Potion. You can catch up on all the fun over on Tim Holtz Blog.

If you watched the LIVE launch you will remember Villainous Potion appearing from behind a cloud of smoke, thanks to the movie effects by Mario, definitely check out the replay over on Tim’s blog, it’s so much fun.

Speaking of smoke… this tag is a little smoke and mirrors. Do you recognize the tag background? It’s made a previous appearance during a LIVE earlier this year… (see varsity moth post).

I often reuse backgrounds or pieces from other makes, sometimes because I really liked them and sometimes because I’m short on time. But in the interest of keeping it very real, here’s what I did….

Removed all of the die cuts using a kraft knife. Covered in a layer of gesso, added some distress crackle texture paste through a stencil and added distress crayon. Finally spraying some villainous potion distress spray stain down the side. It really is all perspective! 😉

I added a leaf from the AWESOME leaf fragment die set. I spritzed with villainous potion spray stain and oxide spray and blended in walnut stain to the edges. In the background you can see the distress crackle texture paste through the digits stencil THS145 and rubbed with walnut stain distress crayon. I have so many fall making plans, I’m really excited to play more with the leaf fragment die set.

I wanted a really deep color for the October which I die cut from the alphanumeric tiny type upper thinlits set. I covered distress watercolor cardstock with villainous potion distress paint and dried before die cutting. The paint is permanent when dry so it won’t bleed when you add collage medium and glue the letters to your tag. I added a sticker from the idea-ology curiosities stickers to add a little fun and an idea-ology hardware head.

You can see where I used my kraft knife to remove some of the tape that was originally underneath and had the “perspective” on when it was the varsity moth tag.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your October.

Zoe

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