Happy Birthday! Boy Oh Boy!

8 years ago

Happy Birthday to me!  And, Happy Birthday to Simon Says Stamp!  I love my birthday and this weekend my beloved let me have fun playing around in my craft room with some of the new things he got me.  I woke up Sunday morning, the day before my birthday, and started to play around with my new mica powders and inks.  I created what would become the background of this tag using the mica powder, water, snowflake paste, and distress paint.  While it was drying I went for a run (good thing too because the weather turned by noon and was a bit grim all afternoon) and while I was out running ideas started to float around in my head.   I was thinking about boy stuff for the Frilly & Funkie Challenge and when I came home I found the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge this week was Happy Birthday!  I decided to see if I could do both challenges!

Here is my birthday tag – it is a bit industrial for me but I had a great time making it.  I didn’t really have a plan in mind and just let everything come together.

I’m entering this Birthday tag into two challenges:

• Happy Birthday! for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge sponsored by Simon Says Stamp
• Boy oh Boy! for The Frilly & Funkie Challenge sponsored by The Funkie Junkie

Happy Birthday!

Items used in the making of this tag:

• Simon Says Stamp:  Birthday Flowers Stamp set (SSS101616)
• Tim Holtz:  Dot Fade Stencil;  Black Soot Distress Paint;   Dapper Paper Stash;  Bigs Mosaic die;  Hickory Smoke Distress Stain;
• Prima/Finnabair:  Snowflake paste;  art ingredients mica powder in blue, green, and copper;  art alchemy acrylic paint in metallique colors steampunk copper, brass hardware, and Deep Waters;  art basics heavy black gesso;  mechanicals embellishments mini knobs, steampunk gears, rustic washers;
• My Favorite Things: Black Licorice Dye Ink;
• Miscellaneous:  Strathmore Watercolor Paper;  burlap scraps;  manila tag #8