festoon: noun

a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points

or

 a carved, molded, or painted ornament representing a decorative chain

"Festoon" traces back (by way of French and Italian) to Latin "festa," the plural of "festum," meaning "festival." "Festa" is also an ancestor of the English noun "feast."
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Being that this is a new year with fresh starts and all has given me the inspiration to do something different with the Timmy Tags of 2013. Instead of making tags, ( which by the way, and don't faint, but I packaged up the 2012 tags and put them in the Art Mob, let's see if they sell? ) I am going to try and make wall hangings instead from the tag challenges..and yes, they will also be put up in the Art Mob. What inspired me you ask to make the tags into wall hangings? So glad you asked, lol You see I went into the store on the 2nd to change out my Christmas stuff to Valentines Day stuff and discovered that I sold 6 wall hangings in December! Like wow, right...exciting but it also puts me into a slight panic mode to fill in those empty spaces!

So here is the first Tim Holtz 2013 tag wall hanging!

 

 

other products used:

Ranger - Distress Stain, Vintage Photo, Clear Rock Candy crackle paint

Tim Holtz Ide-ology Film Strip ribbon

clip art from the Internet - pointing hand, gears

clock hands, gold beads, clip - misc.

Eyelet Outlet - Gear brads ( removed brad parts )

Faber Castell - blue metallic gelato ( rubbed dry onto embossing plate ) and salmon gelota used on clock frame, and PITT Pen,black

Fiskars - bamboo embossing plate

Big Shot

Helmars - 450 and Liquid Scrapdots

Aleenee's Tacky Glue

background words from Helmars Challenge site ( printed in reverse on wax paper and pressed down on board, love this technique! )

Golden - gesso, and gel medium

Cricut - French Manor, p. 31 ( clock face 8" )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - hemp cord ( dyed with Vintage Photo )
ScorPal - tape

 

Also entering this in Helmar's January Challenge where I doubt I can win this month as I won last months December challenge..woo hoo me! lol ( side note, this is one of the signs that sold quickly as it wasn't even in the store for a whole month! I loooooove it when that happens )

This month they want you to use the colors blue and orange, the word LIFE, and a list. I was so inspired by the word art list that I used it on my background. I copied it from their site and put it into my print program, reversed the words, printed it off on wax paper and then laid it down on my board and pressed it down using my hands. Gently lift off the wax sheet, don't let it wiggle or it will smear and then let it dry.

 

 I hope you can see the words:

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OK, does anyone else have problems with the colors in Dylusions Melted Chocolate? For me it comes out beautifully until it dries, gets mixed or spritzed with anything. Here I began my board by gessoing it, let it dry and then I sprayed the Melted Chocolate onto it, added a little bit of Folk Art Turner's Yellow, and spritzed it with water. I took my fancy credit card tool and smoothed out the Melted Chocolate to discover this color reaction, can you see the green and pink? Do you see any brown? lol It's actually very pretty, just not what I was going for!