Monday, February 15, 2016

Recycled Time Tag Tutorial



Hello friends! I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Leo hasn't been feeling well, but he is starting to get better now. It is Monday and a new Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is up, Recycle/Upcycle. Did you see that we have four new design team members? Very welcome to ZoeyKathMacarena and Cathie. You can read more here

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
I love the packaging of Tim Holtz idea-ology Sprocket Gears, with circle blisters, and I have used just parts of it before, such as a window to my Space Rocket. For a long time, I have been planning to use the whole piece of packaging on a project and this challenge was the perfect opportunity for that. I made an inky tag, on a clock theme, also using some idea-ology embellishments. 

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
I started out by stamping the circles with various small stamps, such as from the Correspondence set. I later removed the 'no 5' since it covered up the Typed Token I placed underneath. You can easily remove Stazon ink by using Alcohol Ink Blending Solution. 

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
The tag was white embossed with various Tim Holtz stamps, repeating the circle pattern on the packaging.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
Ink the tag with Distress Inks and and ink blending tool and mist with splatters using the Distress Spray Mist bottle. I love the splatter effect you can get with the bottle, so much easier than flicking water drops with your fingers. 

 
When dry, stamp with a graph background stamp and Black Soot ink.

 Finally, I stamped the tag here and there with the specks background stamp and Jet Black ink.

I cut the packaging the same size as the tag and made a hole with my Crop-a-dile. I set an eyelet through the two holes, which also keeps the tags together. I used some of the actual Sprocket Gears on the tag, here together with a flower and Game Spinner.

The cheese cloth had been dyed with Distress Spray Stains, it was a leftover from my Pirate Zombie from last week.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
 The specks stamp adds a nice extra texture to the background and I love this star border stamp.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
I really like the look of the stamped packaging on top of the inked and stamped background. Some of the circles were left with just the stamping.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
I placed embellishments under some of the circles, and the gears of course fitted perfectly, since this was their packaging after all. The metal pieces were glued with Matte Multi Medium. You have to mask out some of the circles with scrap paper when stamping with larger stamps, such as this time sentiment stamp.

Layers of ink - Recycled tag using Tim Holtz idea-ology Sprocket Gear packaging
The Typed Tokens fit perfectly under the smaller circles. I placed a Monocle on top to add more dimension and an extra layer.

Layers of ink - Recycled tag with Tim Holtz stamps by Stamper's Anonymous
The stamp I used here is an old favorite, the definition of 'curiosity' from the Curiosities set.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
The gears also worked well together with the time theme of the tag, such as on this stamped clock.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
There is also a stamped compass from Warehouse District, and some numbers and text from the Correspondence set.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
This clock comes from the Tiny Things set.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
At the bottom of the tag, I attached an Observations Word Band with mini staples and an inked Linen Ribbon.

Layers of ink - Recycled Time Tag Tutorial by Anna-Karin
It was a little hard to capture the dimension of the tag, you might see it better on this photo.

I hope you will join us in our Recycle/Upcycle challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

If you want to, follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 




If you use instagram add #sssmchallenge to your challenge entry uploads, so that we can see them on there too.






Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Have a happy week!

Anna-Karin

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21 comments:

  1. Ah I love this and the colours. It has been so long since I have been here. I am really struggling to keep up now... I am glad Leo is feeling better. The twins have been really sick too and then everyone got sick :/ not fun. I want to go check out their blog maybe I can play along. I have played a little and I am having fun :D

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  2. Fabulous tag Anna-Karin, I love the colours and whole design of this. I especially LOVE how you used the circles from the packaging, a brilliant and very clever idea and the finished result is AWESOME!! :-)

    luv
    Lols x x x

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  3. This tag is gorgeous, Anna-Karin! The color blending is amazing and I've got to try making one of those trinkets out of old packaging. Thanks for the inspiration! Cathie <3

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  4. I love this! I was wondering how you made the circles before I read your post. I especially love how you stamped behind the circles. Wonderful tag!

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  5. I love this! I was wondering how you made the circles before I read your post. I especially love how you stamped behind the circles. Wonderful tag!

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  6. Anna-Karin, this is SO SMART!!!!!!
    I never though of upcycling these packaging this way! Definitely want to try!
    Thank you for sharing - once again - an awesome idea!
    Hugs
    ZOey

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  7. Fabulous use of the packaging, Anna-Karin! I love how you stamped the images on the bubbles - that's brilliant! The white embossing is gorgeous with the colors you use. I can see I need to reach for white more often.

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  8. love how you've used the packaging...genius idea to use the circle stamps on the bubbles xxx

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  9. Beautiful tag! Love the colors and the stamping. I also thought to save the gear packaging but never thought of anything to do with it. This is brilliant. Poor baby Leo, hope he is well soon.

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  10. this is so marvelous - I love the effect of the white embossed images!

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  11. Great design. I love every single detail.

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  12. Gorgeous tag, Anna-Karin! I love how you blended and created the background :)

    *mwah*
    Steph
    Simon Says Stamp

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  13. You are very clever to think of this!

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  14. Love all the textures and colours on this tag, Cathy x

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  15. Colors, textures are fantastic but your use of this packaging it's totally stunning! So so clever!!!! Barbara

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  16. Gorgeous tag, Anna-Karin! Love the colors of the background and love the packing! So clever and stunning! Hugs, Sandra

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  17. This is gorgeous! I love the colors you used and all the delish layers.

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  18. You know I always love your work, but this is a whole new level of brilliance! How absolutely clever to use the packaging as embellishments! The whole thing is stunning and I feel totally inspired to go cut up some packaging....

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  19. Very, very clever piece of work and such a wonderful piece of recycling...that is brilliant, Anna-Karin and creates a really beautiful piece of artwork! :)

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  20. Just had to pop by to say that I absolutely love this tag!! So awesome and thanks for the tutorial!

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