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Old Jalopy Tag

Instructions

Step 1: cut out tree and jalopy with die cuts (from chipboard).  Be careful not to pop out the pieces for the jalopy just yet.
Step 2:  Separate the tree from the backing and then ink with pine needles distress ink and an applicator.  While ink is still wet, apply clear embossing powder over the image and remove excess powder.
Step 3: heat emboss with a heat tool until powder becomes shiny and translucent showing the stamped green ink.
Step 4: Before separating the car pieces from the backing,  ink the car with black soot.  You can easily see where the pieces are and it is easier to ink them this way than as tiny little pieces.  Use an applicator to ink the cardboard well.
Step 5:  Working quickly so the ink doesn’t dry, pop the car pieces from the backing and using glossy accents assemble and glue the jalopy together.  While the ink is still wet, apply black embossing powder over the image and remove excess powder.
Step 6:  Heat emboss with heat tool.
Step 7:  Apply Art Glitter Faux Snow  adhesive here and there on your tree.  Don’t go crazy with the glue.  You don’t want to completely cover the tree . . . just accent it.
Step 8:  Take pinches of the Faux Snow and cover up the glue.  Be very generous.  Gently pat over the snow to make it stick to the adhesive.  Dump off excess faux snow just like you did the embossing powder. 
Step 9:  Attach your tree to the roof of the car with a 12” piece of jute or twStep Step 10:  Apply a generous layer of matt medium
to a tag.   A foam brush works well for this or an old paint brush.  NOTE:  Glossy medium also works for this.
Step 11:  While the matt medium is wet, press a piece of dictionary
paper over the top of it.  It doesn’t matter what words you have, honest!  And you don’t have to line anything up.  Just completely cover the tag.
Step 12:  Dry the paper with the heat tool until the tag no longer feels damp (if it is cool to the touch it is still wet).
Step 13:  Tear off all the excess paper from around the tag.  If you must you scissors you can but it really isn’t necessary.
Step 14:  Press a piece of masking tape onto the paper and rub it well with hand and a brayer to adhere it well to the paper.
Step 15:  Slowly, and I mean SLOWLY, peel back the tape and this will start to lift off some of the dictionary print revealing random text on the back of the dictionary.  This will make for a great inking surface later.
Step 16: Repeat going various directions.  Remember SLOWLY!   You don't want to rip the paper and expose the tag which is why we've removed the paper from around the edge first so it's doesn't tear through the tag.   NOTE:  This technique is how you get rid of any weird words on the dictionary paper you might have - I told you it wasn't going to be a problem.  When the tag is finished, you don’t see a great deal of the dictionary words anyway.
Step 17:  Ink the tag with distress ink (Weathered Wood) using a blending tool. 
Step 18:  Drag a paper distressing tool along the edges of the tag to tatter them.
Step 19:  Ink the edges with Vintage Photo distress ink and a blending tool.
Step 20:  Stamp Merry Christmas on the upper left hand corner of the tag with Aged Mahogany distress ink (have the tag going long ways or landscape position with the hole of the tag to the left).  Be sure to stamp close to the left hand side so that your car doesn’t cover up the words when it is later attached to the tag.
Step 21:  Stamp your flourishes where you like along the left hand side of the tag.  Use Vintage Photo distress ink.
Step 22:  Stamp a circle and the number 25 on the back of a wooden game piece using Aged Mahogany distress ink and the My Favorite Things Typewriter Alphabet stamps. Set aside to dry.
Step 23:  Tie another piece of twine or jute through the tag hole (tie a bow) and attach a small metal ring through the hole of the Muse Token and the hole of the mini pin.  Then pin the Muse Token to the twine bow.
Step 24:  Apply foam dots to the back of the car and then stick in place on the tag.
Step 25:  Attach the wooden game piece onto the car with glossy accents.  When it is in place, apply a generous amount of glossy accents to the face of the wooden game piece to create a shiny acrylic bubble on the surface of the game piece.  Let dry.

Product List

-Craft Sheet
-Distress Inks (Pine Needles, Black Soot, Weathered Wood, Aged Mahogany, Vintage Photo)
-Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
-Ranger Black Embossing Powder
-Ranger Ink Blending Tool
-Ranger Glossy Accents
-Heat Tool
-Art-C Matte Medium
-Bazzil Basics Chipboard
-Mini Pin
-Ranger Muse Tokens Christmas
-Small Metal Ring
-Tim Holtz Wooden Game Pieces
-Scissors
-Tonic Studios Paper Distresser
-Ranger Brayer
-Flourish Stamp
-Merry Christmas Stamp
-My Favorite Things Typewriter Alphabet stamps
-Sizzix Old Jalopy die cut
-Sizzix Pine Tree die cut
-Art Institute Glitter Faux Snow and Faux Snow Adhesive
-Ranger Manila Tag #8
-Dictionary Paper
-Jute or Twine
-American Crafts Ribbon
-Foam Dots
-Masking Tape

Forest Trees Tag

Instructions

Step 1:  Shake Metallic Mixative and apply a squiggle of ink to center of non-stick craft sheet (less is more in this case). 
Step 2:  Apply various drips, drops and squiggles of several colors of alcohol inks over the mixative  and various places.  It is OK if the inks blend.
Step 3:  Dribble a little bit of blending solution over the ink mixture on the mat.  The more blending solution you add, the lighter your background will be.
Step 4:  Place glossy cardstock face down and twist paper into the ink.  Glossy cardstock is not the same as glossy photo paper.  Glossy cardstock is clay coated and designed to absorb inks.  Photo paper is emulsion based and will cause a chemical reaction and get very sticky.
Step 5:  Slide paper up off of craft sheet. 
Step 6:  Place background back into same ink and twist again for a second layer.
Step 7:  Slide paper up off craft sheet to reveal background.  You want all the white covered.  Two layers is good.  Any more than that and it can get a bit muddy looking.
Step 8:  This is an optional step.  If you have ink left over from your first background, add more blending solution and repeat above steps with another piece of glossy cardstock.
Step 9:  Stamp trees on the left hand side with black Memento ink.  The alcohol ink should be completely dry before doing this step.  Immediately sprinkle with black embossing powder, tap off the excess and then heat emboss with a heat tool.  The black trees will become shiny black when the emboss is finished.
Step 10:  Stamp stars up on the top right hand corner with Distress Embossing Ink and then immediately sprinkle with silver embossing powder, tap off the excess again and then heat emboss with a heat tool.  The stars will turn shiny silver when the heat embossing is complete.
Step 11:  Stamp It’s a Wonderful Life on a piece of grungeboard that is 1”x4” and has had the corners rounded.
Step 12:  Ink snow flurries with the white ink and a flourish stamp on the lower left hand corner.  Dry with the heat tool.
Step 13:  Speckle little white dots of White Enamel randomly over the trees and background.
Step 14:  Ink the grungeboard  and all the edges of a #8 tag with Distress Ink using an Ink Blending Tool.  Use the blues on the grungeboard but add black after you have applied the blues to the tag (Faded Jeans, Weathered Wood and Black Soot).
Step 15:  Pierce a hole through the one end of the It’s a Wonderful Life grungeboard piece.  Put a silver brad through the hole.  On the other end of the grungeboard stick an acrylic sticker of a snowflake.
Step 16:  Apply adhesive to the back side of the grungeboard piece and then stick it just right of the trees. 
Step 17:  Apply adhesive to the back of the glossy paper piece and stick it onto the tag.
Step 18:  Tie a piece of silver cord along the top edge of the glossy paper and tie a single knot over the stars.
Step 19:  Tie a white ribbon through the top hole of the tag.
Step 20:  Pop dot a paper snowflake onto the top left hand corner of the tag and clip a mini clothespin onto the snowflake.  Attach the snowflake to the tag with a small glue dot.
Step 21:  Add two more acrylic snowflakes where ever you desire onto the tag.

Product List

-Craft Sheet
-Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks (Cloudy Blue, Pool, Slate, Stream and Silver Mixative)
-Ranger Adirondack Blending Solution,
-Ranger Archival Black Ink
-Clearsnap Frost White Color Box Pigment Ink
-Inkadinkado White Enamel Accents
-Ranger Distress Embossing Ink
-Stampendous Embossing Powder (Black and Silver)
-Ranger Distress Inks (Weathered Wood, Black Soot and  Faded Jeans)
-Ranger Ink Blending Tool
-Heat Tool
-Ranger Glossy Cardstock
-Tim Holtz Grungeboard
-American Crafts Silver Brad
-Snowflakes (Acrylic Stickers and Die Cut Paper Snowflake)
-Pebbles Mini Clothes Pin
-Sizzix Pine Trees and Flourish from Tim Holtz Collection Reindeer Flight
-Unity Twinkle Twinkle set
-Hampton Art It’s A Wonderful Life Stamp
-Ribbon and Silver Twine
-Adhesive
-Ranger Manila Tag #8
-Corner Rounder
-Scissors
-Making Memories Paper Piercer