paltry: adjective

inferior, trashy

 

 mean, despicable

 

  trivial

 

meager, measly

pronunciation

 

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( Click on the picture to take you to TH tutorial )

So here is my take on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 as a 6x12" wall hanging.

The only question I have .... 

Is this feminine grunge?

 

I cut my label from the Cricut, French Manor cartridge, p. 54 at 7 x 4.361" ( took it to the Cricut Craft Room to remove the extra cuts so that I had one solid cut ), if I had the proper bunny silhouette cut I would have used the CCR to layer my cuts and would have been done, ( much like TH showed using the mover and shaker die and the bunny die ) but since I didn't; I had to print out and cut a clip art bunny shape, use a tiny bit of double sided tape to it and laid it on top of the label and then used my Fiskars Finger Tip knife to cut the image out. Inked the edges with Antique Linen ( but note to self, make sure mat is clean as other inks will transfer, which is why I have a rosy tint to outside edge of the label )...sigh

How many of you held your breath when applying the heat gun to your tinsel?
I know I did!

 

  I found this great sentiment on the Internet by Gene Audrey and thought it fit the sweet retro feel to my sign. I used Traveling Typewriter font and embossed it since the nice shiny DCWV helps the ink from the printer stay nice and wet longer. I love the Blue Moon Beads hummingbird charm :)

 

My grass was cut from the Cricut cartridge, Country Life, p. 73. Since I didn't own any of the kraft core paper, I cut my image twice. One in matte shade of green ( 2.5" RDS ) and the other in a shiny green ( 2." RDS - flipped ) I flipped the image so that the grasses would not line up and give a similar effect to offsetting the cuts like TH did. Then, I inked the edges of the grass using Antique Linen with my blending tool.

The most fun was had when I finally broke open my stash of Distress Paints, ( and yes, I am the proud owner of every single color.) I was giddy with excitement....OK...not really giddy but darn happy! I wanted to make some Easter eggs to along the bottom and thought I'd try a Tye dye egg or 2...or 3. I used the broken china, spun sugar and mowed lawn...yum! ( I did learn that poor spun sugar can be quite overwhelmed by her sister colors so ended up putting extra spun sugar on top of the other colors after they dried. ) Eggs cut from Cricut's, Stretch Your Imagination, p. 67 ( used in CCR to remove the paintbrush )

other products used:

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - 450

basket weave paper - ( who knows? it's oooooollllldd...and I hooooaaarrrdddd iiiiiit!  And if you know Ron White, the comedian from Blue Collar Comedy, channel his voice when you read that, lol)

Prima - leaves and flowers

 

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#15 -  Mother's Day card

 

Kinda came about unintentionally, while looking for a green card stock I found this negative cut that I must have done ages ago. I placed a piece of my sprayed tissue underneath it,
 and then accidently smudged a bit of gesso on it.....darn.....
that's what I get for working on more than one project at a time!

 

 I sat there and looked at it for a moment and then thought, what the heck. Got out more gesso and lightly spread it onto the card, lol Thanks for the Mixed Media Monday gals for helping me pick out a button :)

entering this in Moxie Fab's challenge: Emphasize on the Negative