Tag Tuesday #47 - Inspire Me!

It's been a wild week for me. Everything at work was due on Friday, so it was long hours of work for me. THEN on top of that...I was suppose to be in Ireland this weekend with my family. I didn't get to go due to Jazz's vet bills but I would have been trying to get home yesterday (Saturday) myself. So in the end it was a good thing I didn't go. However, I still haven't found out where my family is. Last I heard they were schedule out of Dublin (back to Venice) on Monday morning....if the planes are flying. But that was Thursday night. SO....keep your fingers crossed for them!

I did get some time to play finally yesterday. I took some time and went to the Saturday crop at Archiver's. Just getting out of the house with planned craft projects means some stuff gets done. One of the things I worked on was the weekly TAG challenge from Kard Krazy (Louise). The challenge was to use a sentiment stamp on a tag.

Having just done Michelle Zindorf's brayer class last Sunday, I wanted to try brayering a tag. I started by stamping the swirl on the tag using white acrylic paint as ink. After it dried I brayered the bottom with Broken China and the top with Peeled Paint. Then used a wet cloth to gently remove the ink from the white paint. It's such a cool look. I used some Japanese Washi tape along the left side (stripes). The sentiment tag was distressed with Tumbled Glass and over-stamped with Broken China.

Stamps: Stampers Anonymous sentiment & PURELY RANDOM, Penny Black POINTILLE
Paper: tag
Ink: Broken China, Peeled Paint, Tumbled Glass, Memento, and acrylic paint
Accessories: clipart by COLLAGE STUFF, rhinestones, silver leaf pen, glitter letters stickers, washi tape, Prima rose, glitter, and ribbon

Michelle Zindorf class

Today my friend, Joanna, and I took a class with Michelle Zindorf. Michelle is well known for her beautifully brayered and sponged cards. I've always been pretty good with sponging (it's a grunge thing). But brayering hasn't always gone well for me. I may not be an expert after today's class but I feel like I'm MUCH improved. You can even see the improvement in my class cards!!

(Joanna Moore, Michelle Zindorf, me)

My first attempt is on the left. You can see the large spot of BLUE in the center of the card. The card on the right was the last card. You can see that I got a smoother result with the brayer by the end.

This is the second class card. I like this one but you can tell I forgot the cardinal rule of starting to brayer off the cardstock and then move in. There is a line in the middle where I started brayering in the middle. OOPS! The rest was sponged. I also see I didn't mount the image evenly. (ugh)

All the stamps are Stampin Up! - but I'm sorry I can't tell you the names of the sets right now! The "artwork" is mine - the designs are all Michelle's!!

Finally, I wanted to share the card I posted earlier in the week. I reworked parts of the card and I like this result much better. The butterfly was flipped around and I added the bling. Bling is like glitter - it's always better with than without! (grin)