12 tags of 2015 - May tag - Mother's Day tag

After Tim Holtz's May tag I tried to make my own version.

This is a posthumous Mother's Day tag for my dear grandmother who died 10 years ago. She was the one who taught me to sew and to embroider. 

And now I tell you how I made this tag.

From chipboard I cut out a tag.

As I live in Luxembourg and because here you can't buy Tim Holtz's products, I bought a jute bag to make burlaps.

I covered the chipboard tag with decoupage glue and I attached the jute tag on it.

I printed my grandmother's photo and then I coloured it with Antique Linen and Tumbled Glass.

After I put some hearts with the heart stencil and modelling paste on the right corner. When it was dry I coloured it with red acrylic paint but I found it too dark, so I put a layer of rose too.

With the Spring Greenery I cut out some leaves and I coloured them with Bundled Sage and Mowed Lawn.

For the little flowers I used the Sizzix 3D flowers because Tim Holtz's latest tattered flowers are not yet available here.

I stamped a calendar with a rubber stamp and StazOn ink then I wrote the birthday of my grandma to the calendar.

 

I aged the calendar with Antique Linen Stain.

And here is a Paris post stamp from Tim Holtz.

And I put all the elements on the tag.

What I used:

Sizzix Movers&Shapers Die, Tag by Tim Holtz (656938)

Sizzix Bigz Die, 3D Flowers by Beth Reames (656545)

Sizzix Sizzlits Die, Spring Greenery (659573)

Sizzix Framelits Die, Fancy Cards by Paula Pascual (659967)

Tim Holtz Heart Stencil (THS017)

Ranger Distress inks

StazOn ink

Tim Holtz Metal Word Bands (TH93000)

jute bag

twine

buttons

acrylic paint

Schmincke acrylic medium