Self Confidences
This all began as an idea for a Halloween tag. I was captivated by the idea of several paper
skeletons hanging from paper clip hangers - whimsy (right?) - and so I made
these for the tag. While I was cutting
some of my paper skeletons in half; creating little bone shirts and pants, I couldn't escape the idiom “skeletons in my/your closet”. After that,
I couldn't seem to incorporate these ‘garments’ into any of the tag
backgrounds I was creating – what was always missing was the illusion of a
closet (and I was now obsessing).
So, how do you make a tag feel like a closet? After much creative consideration and
crafty consternation;
-the short
answer is, I couldn't
-the long
answer is, I built a closet
Demo - Double Embossing
Lately,
I have received a lot of emails asking me; how did I emboss the Yellow Brick
Roads and various backgrounds on my Oz inspired series of tags?
I hope the following post & pictures help better demonstrate this
process. If you still have questions, please ask, I'll always answer what I can (and guess at the rest).
I would like see what creative an cleaver combinations you are creating with this process. If you send me a link to you project - I'll be by to ogle & aww.
Demo – Double Emboss
Time: <1 Hours
Yield: Endless
Possibilities
Wet Ingredients:
- Ink – Distress Walnut Stain
Dry Ingredients:
- Cardstock – Tan paper cut 4.25” X 5.5“
Tools/Equipment:
- Embossing Folders - Bottle Caps & Rulers, Rays & Retro Circles
- Scraps of 3/16 Acrylic Sheeting
- Sizzix Embossing Diffuser
my blog is one year old today
A year ago today, I made my first
tag and created this blog, just so I could ‘play along’ with June’s twelve tags of
twenty-twelve.
The continuing monthly challenges
in Tim’s 12 tags of 2013, and the inky pinky promise I made to myself to
participate, are all a part of the consistent commitment to creativity that inspires
me to share.
The welcome and support, the
amazing global community Tim has cultivated, extended to me is more I ever
could have imagined.
Thank-you all - readers both old
and new.
vki (aka - that crazy chick)
