Grungy Monday 32: A Little 12 Tags Review!

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You know, I love hosting Grungy Monday, and before that, I loved hosting the Compendium of Curiosities Challenge. In all those many challenge themes-- this week makes 67!-- I've never enjoyed one as much as I did last week's Tim Holtz Birthday Card event! So many incredibly talented artists joined in, and every single one of those cards you guys created is magnificent! What an honor it is to play hostess to such generous craft artists. Thank you all!

Now, it's a whole new week and I hope you'll enjoy this challenge as much as the last! I don't know about you, but I found the 12 Tags of Christmas 2011 to be absolutely chock full of awesome, new-to-me techniques that I barely had time to explore beyond the rush to make the tag of the day. So, now that things have (hopefully) calmed down a bit, how 'bout we take a more leisurely approach and explore:

Your Favorite New Technique from 12 Tags '11

The link above will take you to a page on Tim's blog that lists all 12 of the tags, and your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to find one particular technique that intrigues you and try it in a non-Christmas-y work of art. This is time to experiment and play and just have a complete blast, so find something you really want to do. Fun, huh?

I fell in love immediately with the delicate Tissue Wrap flowers Tim demo'ed for Tag #12, and wondered how well the technique would work for a large-scale Valentine's piece.

I followed Tim's instructions, but used larger squares Tissue Wrap (5 - 6 inches), and tinted it with red tones of Distress Stain and Ink. I cut leaves using the Tattered Leaves die and tinted those with Evergreen Bough Distress Ink. (If you use ink on the Tissue Wrap, give it a blast with your heat tool to set the color.) There are photos of each individual flower below.

Excited to play? I hope so! This week is extra special, because the amazingly generous folks at Simon Says Stamp will be giving a $25 gift certificate to one of our Grungy Monday participants! They have EVERYTHING-- it's such a cool online store!

To enter this challenge:

1. Create a work of art based on any technique from Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas, 2011.
2. Post a photo of your creation on your blog or at an online, public photo-hosting site like Flickr or Photobucket. You can enter anytime before Sunday, January 15 at 8pm MST.
3. Be sure to include a link to the post on Tim's blog where you found your technique. 
4. Also, remember to include a link to our sponsor, Simon Says Stamp (www.simonsaysstamp.com). 
5. Finally, please include a link to this Studio L3 challenge post
6. Link your art below using the handy InLinks button
7. Know that you are AWESOME!

Speaking of awesome, the lovely Gloria at the All Things Tim group has a special photo album where you can share your fabulous Grungy Monday art. If you're not a member, join up! They're such nice people and you'll learn a TON of great stuff from them!

Okay, friends, go have yourselves a magnificent and creative week! I can't wait to see what you come up with, and I thank you sincerely for being part of Grungy Monday!

Hugs,

Linda

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