Tim Holtz Professor With Distress Oxide Sprays -- A Mixed Media Tag

Hello and welcome! It's Tag Friday time at A Vintage Journey, and I was happy to play along. It's always fun to make a tag with no theme in mind--just pure play time! And may I add, it's fun to get my hands inky after putting my mixed media supplies aside for this project.

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And play I did! I added some of Tim Holtz newest Distress Oxide Spray colors and his The Professor stamps to my crafty stash last month, but haven't had a chance to give them a try.  I used a large manila tag and my favorite 'old' DOX spray colors: Iced Spruce, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain along with a splash of my newest addition--Twisted Citron. You can see in the photo above just how much impact just one  spritz of this color has among the older, more subdued favorites.

The Story Stick is colored with Black Soot paint, Smolder Alcohol Pearls and Caramel alcohol ink and twisted up with some wire from my stash, since something as grungy as this needs a funkie topper.

I wanted to play along in this month's Tim Holtz Addicts Facebook technique challenge-- Rub Resist, so I pulled out some oldie 'Numbers' Remnant Rubs and applied them to the tag before applying the sprays. This tag is really thirsty, and mostly the colors soaked in right away, but in some instances, I was able to spray them with water and chase them around with my heat tool,  giving it this nice grungy look.

 How could you not love The Professor?!  I used Ground Espresso and Faded Jeans Archival ink to stamp him. I wiped off the excess ink from the rubs, then masked the image and stamped the dial from the same set in Faded Jeans. This time, I heat set the ink so that it would set on top of the Remnant Rub. I actually should have done the reverse, since the dial appears to be in the background. Oh, well! It's all just for fun!

I inked up the tape measure stamp with Peeled Paint archival and colored a Quote Chip with Iced Spruce and Vintage Photo spray and edged it with Black Soot Distress Crayon after giving it a sealing coat of Distress Collage Medium Matte.

 That's all for me, but there's plenty more tag inspiration by my talented fellow Creative Guides over at A Vintage Journey, so I hope you'll hop over! And then we invite you to play along, too, and link up any tags you've been working on. Thank you for stopping by! Hugs! Sara Emily

Challenge shares:

Tim Holtz Addicts Facebook technique challenge-- Rub Resist
SANDEE & AMELIE'S MAY STEAMPUNK CHALLENGE - ANYTHING GOES STEAMPUNK/INDUSTRIAL
Simon Says: Stamp Monday Frame It

Products used and available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Jumbo Manila Tags

Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous The Professor Stamps

Distress Oxide Sprays

Distress Paint Black Soot

Distress Crayon Black Soot

Distress Archival inks Kit #2

Distress Archival inks Kit #3

Distress Collage Medium Matte

Alcohol ink Caramel

Alcohol Pearls Smolder

Ideaology Remnant Rubs Numbers

Ideaology Quote Chips

Idealology Story Sticks