Watercolouring for Tim's April 12 tags of 2015, Jane's Journal style

Yes I know, 2 posts in 2 days, unheard of for me but I had such a great day of crafty play yesterday that I thought it would be ideal to get my April card version of Tim's tags under my belt.  This month Tim has really explored his more delicate side and designed 2 gorgeous floral watercoloured tags. Here they are

All the details of the techniques are over on his blog post here.

Now I know that I often struggle with not having all the products he uses but this time I was well and truly stumped with which stamps to improvise with. I don't own any long stemmed single flower stamps at all. I sorted through my stash and the only large floral stamp I have is a tulip but I did and very old floral bouquet Penny Black stamp .

I love colouring using many different mediums; Promarkers, Inktense, Prismacolor and watercolouring. I also have few Distress markers so I was very limited by my colour ways. I chose a yellow/green/red colourway for the tulip stamp and a red/blue/yellow one for the bouquet.
I stamped the images onto mixed media card and then made a wash of colour as Tim did using my ink spritzer.

I used distress pens and ink pads using a detailer pen to colour my images.

I decided to leave the image below for another day as I wanted to concentrate on the tulip card and these things take a long time to come together. I had a very multitasking day..every time I went upstairs to cut or get things I did a bit more cleaning...I go the whole of the upstairs cleaned yesterday!

For the first time I coloured some seam binding with the same inks to make matching ribbons....oh my goodness, what fun this is and I will definitely be doing this more often.

Instead of plain Kraft which Tim used as his backing I decided to give my cards an embossed background. I embossed my Kraft card and using my finger applied some bronze gilding paste to the raised areas.

Tim also cleverly die cut and inserted  his sentiments but as I do not have his shadow dies again I improvised with a birthday sentiment I have.

It was then time to put on my creative hat and bring all my elements together in my card design.

This is my finished card.

You can see that I made some "faux" stitching around the focal as I don't have easy access to a sewing machine.

a couple of close ups, I love this hand dyed ribbon

and for me, instead of a star, a touch of bling in the corners ;0)

and one last arty shot

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Tim Holtz' 12 tags of 2015 April
Frilly and Funkie put a ribbon on it
The Emerald Faeries spring flowers/Easter
Creative Inspirations anything goes
Natalie and Amy frame it
Noor! anything goes
The Artistic stamper flora and fauna
Country View use Kraft card I used this for my embossed background
Our Creative Corner colour your world, spring
Craft stamp, take a technique colour

Thanks for looking at my April card version of Tim's tag. Thanks Tim for your limitless creativity and for exploring another, more feminine side of it...more please ;0)

Back again very soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x