Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2016 Jane's Journal card style, March

Wow a third of the year through already and Tim is continuing with his inspirational re mix tags. This is his tag for March using 2 of his previous techniques.

I needed to make an Easter card for my Hb and as I'm not sure he would appreciate one with butterflies on I decided to chose something else for the focal. I chose my Tim bird branch die...one of my faves and started with the corrugated card treatment.

Your can see all the details of the making process over at Tim's blog here but I will share my own tweaks as I always like to go off on a bit of a tangent....it's always fun.
So I prepared my corrugated card (I love using this and I use it lots in my crafting)

 I cut out my bird branch and added some spring colours to make it appear to be a piece of damp bark

I die cut some card using my mixed media dies and stuck it only some card which I had stamped with my VI script stamp.

I don't have any Distress crayons yet but I do have Gellatos so I used some spring colours on this layer. I roughly worked out where the branch would be and also where the bird would sit.

I then decided that as there is not a lot of open space on this die that I would use the bright backing more as a shadow to the original die cut. So rather than get rid of the die cut I used it.  I rubbed some Gellatos onto the bird and branch and inked the edges for shadow and depth.

To make my card more Eastery (not sure if that is a word, I'll call it a Janeism) I also die cut some of Tim new wildflowers and water coloured them with distress inks in spring colours. I also cut myself a little tag from corrugated card.

So I bet you are wondering where I am going with this.......well here is my finished card.

 and some close ups......

So another Jane's Journal card take on Tim's great tags....I rather like this one, I hope my Hb does too :0)

I would like to link up my card into the following great challenges;

Tim Holz 12 Tags of 2016  March
Live and Love crafts  Signs of spring
The Artistic Stamper spring time
Anything but cute crazy for colour
Fussy and Fancy  things with wings
Deep Ocean Easter
Penny Black and More feature a creature
Pixie's Crafty workshop #220
Allsorts  1/3 spring is in the air
We love to Create 1/2 #6 anything goes mixed media
Stamps and stencils spring is in the air
The Ribbon Girl any image/ spring or anything goes


Easter is so early this year, just 2 weeks away. I am enjoying some Easter makes at the moment as well working on my DT projects, lots of spring crafting. I hope you get some time too there is so much to be inspired by all around us courtesy of Mother Nature.
The sun has made an appearance too...bliss... look who I found coming out of hibernation in my garden after work on Friday...........

 A most welcome visitor.

Thanks for visiting and your kind comments. Thanks also for voting for me on Facebook with my Fairy art journal pages and if you would still like to vote this is the link to the post here with the details. I am in the top 20 with my votes so fingers crossed that if I can stay there I will get through to the next round. You're all stars, I could not do it without you.

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Bye for now,

Jane x