Tag: Emboss - Birdcage and Bird

I am already in the soft embrace of the Eternal,
    so why do you beckon me to leave, saying,
    “Fly like a BIRD to the mountains.”

Psalm 11:1    *(VOICE)

Welcome to Thursday Totally Tags ‘n’ ATCs over at MyPaperCrafting.com!  Every Thursday we on the Design Team will do a team post featuring Tags n' ATC's.  We will have a specific Theme each week featuring an element, technique or embellishment.  We’ll all come up with something excitingly different – using various types of tools, etc. to create our projects...i.e., Cricut, CAMEO, Spellbinders, punches, stamps, paint, material, lace, inks, etc.   The sky's the limit!  The only restriction...  If we use SVG's or Digi's, we will only use those from the vast selection at PCW.

Spring is a time of "new beginnings" and we love to see things "take root, blossom and grow”....so, we decided it was a good time to announce some changes to our Challenges and Link Ups.  Here is the link to Melin’s explanation of how things will work now.  Be sure to pop over there and be included in the creative fun!    http://www.mypapercrafting.com/2013/04/aprilprizes.html 

The Theme for this week’s projects is ‘Emboss.’  I have made a Tag using the new ‘Birdcage and Bird cf’ and I’ve embossed three elements of it with three different embossing folders.

I made a ‘shadow’ background with my SCAL3 from White cardstock for the Gold birdcage.  I embossed the background with my ‘Brick Wall’ folder on which I had first applied Gold ink. 

I cut the Bird from Vellum, embossed it in the ‘Flourished Designs II’ folder and then lightly applied Light Blue ink.  I made a small ‘corner piece’ from a scrap of Vellum, adhered one side of it to the cage and one side of it to the back of the Bird, which raised it up on an angle. 

I cut 3 sizes of flowers from Peach cardstock using the ‘Butterfly ‘n’ Tag 221 cf’ and inked the edges with Gold ink.  I embossed them in the ‘Butterflies’ folder.  I placed the flowers on a spray of punched leaves and pine-type branches.  I added Pearls to the centers.

I added a sheer White ribbon to the top of the Tag.  I didn’t include a sentiment at this time, as I’m not sure for what Occasion I will use this Tag.  I’ll decide that later.

Her are the files I used -

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Here is the FREE digi-file for this week at My Paper Crafting.  Be sure to stop over there, if you haven’t already, see all of the other creative projects, get the file, make a project of your own using a digi-file from My Paper Crafting and then link it there so we can see it, too!

FREE file  -

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Have You made any interesting Tags recently?  I’d love to see them!  Let me know if you have any questions about anything I’ve done here or on any other blog post -  Blessings until next time!

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Thanks for visiting here today!  I hope you take a few minutes to check all of the Tag/ATC creativeness on the other blogs, too!    Melin should have a Free File for today on her blog, also!  I’ll Update and have the file here as soon as it’s posted over there - 

Be sure to remember MPC for all of your Cutting and Digital files.  Tomorrow is our Digi Dessert Fridaze post, every other Tuesday is a Cutting File post and in between I may post some other projects. 

Check out my Tabs in the Header above to see what else I do and can do for you!  Let me know if you have questions on anything here – or if I can do anything for You!  Have a Great Week!  See you again soon!

*  (I have been reading about the new ‘VOICE’ version of the Bible recently and will use it as appropriate, which might allow some to understand in a more contemporary style of language…  I use a variety of versions in an attempt to make the verses each post relevant to whatever the project is.  Just FYI.)  ;-}

B’ Bye!  Bye!  B’ Bye!

(You can take the Gal out of the Sky, but You can’t take the Sky out of the Gal!)  ;-}

Thursday Totally TAGS ‘ n’ ATCs! – 'Buttons'

The trees of the Lord are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
There the birds make their NESTS; the stork has its home in the junipers.

Psalm 104 : 16 & 17

 

Welcome to the recently-added Thursday Totally Tags ‘n’ ATCs over at MyPaperCrafting.com!  Every Thursday we on the Design Team will begin doing a team post featuring Tags n' ATC's.  We will have a specific Theme each week featuring an element, technique or embellishment.  We’ll all come up with something excitingly different – using various types of tools, etc. to create our projects...i.e., Cricut, CAMEO, Spellbinders, punches, stamps, paint, material, lace, inks, etc.   The sky's the limit!  The only restriction...  If we use SVG's or Digi's, we will only use those from the vast selection at PCW.

The Theme for this second week of projects is ‘Buttons.’  I had a totally different Tag already sketched and planned – and I’ll probably do it again for another Theme week - but for several reasons I changed my mind yesterday and have come up with this one -  I thought I’d whip up a breath of fresh, Spring air on a Tag -  ;-}  I miss the coming of Spring in the Mid-west…  (I don’t miss the harsh Winters before it!!)

*  I began with a manilla tag which I had ‘colored’ a while ago while doing another project.  I had used this tag to blot up some unneeded spray inks from a plastic mat I use when spraying items!  I cut a piece of sage parchment cardstock to back it and adhered it – with some punched leaf lace in between the layers on the sides.  I had inked the leaf lace, also, with a darker sage green.  

  

*  I cut 2 sets of flowers, in 2 sizes, and 2 leafy branches from the ‘Flower 2 cf’ which was new last week.  I hand-embossed the flowers and leaves and then inked them on the reverse side.  I added gems to the centers and tiny ones (for buds) on the ends of 2 stems.

*  I made a nest from dried moss, cutting off a little patch of it and then lightly spraying it with spray adhesive to keep it in shape, forming it gently with my fingers into a nest.  

*  I chose 3 light blue buttons to use as eggs.  I tied the twine from the original tag in the buttonholes and knotted and trimmed it.  I glued the buttons into the nest and then hot-glued the nest onto the Tag.

 

*  I adhered a tiny Graphic 45 element to the Tag in the upper right corner.  I punched a circle of cardstock, inked it and adhered it over the tag hole, punching through the hole in all layers.  I made a loop-tie from light blue ribbon and looped it through the tag hole.

This is the cutting file I used for the flowers and leaves –

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Thanks for visiting here today!  I hope you take a few minutes to check all of the Tag/ATC creativeness on the other blogs, too!  Be sure to remember MPC for all of your Cutting and Digital files.  Tomorrow is our Digi post, every other Tuesday is a Cutting File post and in between I may post some other projects.  Come again!  ;-}  Let me know if I can do any Paper-crafting  or Vintage Digital Photo Restoration for You or anyone you know!