Good Stuff for Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey

Hello friends! It's that special time at A Vintage Journey when we get free crafty play to make a tag for our Tag Friday feature. 

I was inspired by how beautiful things are starting to look in our yard on these first days of spring, in spite of the hurricane damage from last September. The landscape has changed so much with many  trees missing, and the ones that remain twisted and broken. The fences that have been long overgrown with trees and shrubs are now exposed and are crumpled from the fallen trees. But new growth is emerging, and I see the beauty of God's grace and renewal.

“The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lam. 3:22-23

This was one of my first plays with my new Distress Oxide Sprays, and I really didn't take note of what I was doing. I used Picked Raspberry, and I'm pretty sure that's Cracked Pistachio, even though it appears blue. I like how it turned out, but I'm not a big fan of pink, so I thought of how I could make it more palatable to me with a rusty trellis and a few flicks of watery Rusty Hinge oxide ink.

The Wildflowers Stems and Tattered Butterfly from Tim Holtz are colored with Cracked Pistachio oxide spray with a little Rusty Hinge oxide ink,  brushed straight from the ink pad or watered down and flicked on. The seam binding ribbon was a product of the leftover inks.

The trellis is a die cut I had in my bin that didn't quite cut right. I dabbed on some black metallic texture paste I recently picked up at Tuesday Morning, some Distress Grit Paste and a mix of embossing powders I've had sitting in the embossing powder drawer for a while. I heated all that until it bubbled, and then painted with watery DecoArt Fluid paints -- Q. Gold and Raw Umber, and a drop or two of Caramel alcohol ink. I tore the edges and painted them with Distress Black Soot paint. I brushed the trellis with Prima Sculpture medium, shaped it and allowed it to dry. No matter how I pointed my camera, I couldn't pick up on the dimension of this crumpled rusted 'fence'. I gave the same treatment to the hole reinforcer.

Tim Holtz' Small Talk stickers always have the perfect words.

That's it for me--just a little fun play with my new sprays and some paints. My talented fellow Creative Guides have some wonderful tag inspiration you won't want to miss on the blog. Hope to see you there! Hugs and Blessings! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Play With Paint The trellis and hole reinforcer were colored with paint.

Scrapy Land Challenge #110 Anything Goes I used two Sizzix dies and an old Cherry Lynn die.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - #380-#381
Let's Craft and Create Challenge #145 - ANYTHING GOES + Option Green Things

Links to products used available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits Wildflower Stems #2

Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Tattered Butterfly 

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray - Cracked Pistachio

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray - Picked Raspberry

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot TDF52937	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap TIM21469	(LATE OCTOBER PRE-ORDER) Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Pad - Rusty Hinge	Distress Grit Paste	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium Matte TDA47933
Prima Art Extravagance: Sculpture Medium - Clear	Ranger Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink - Caramel	Rayon Seam Binding