Tags and glimmer

Challenges... what a blast they are... I love doing them... BUT the biggest problem is that I then have to link to the blogs... and that is my largest problem... as I am still on this "LOVELY THING" called dial up... at least I have that... but it is so S L O W ....

So I wanted to do three challenges... and I combined them all onto one project... I am still working on the scrapbook of my Mom while she was growing up...  so here is my most recent page...

So the three challenges are this...
Simon Says Stamp and Show ...  something with a flourish... 

Theme Thursday... the theme was WINGS....

Gingersnap  which is to do Transportation.... with a steampunk attitude...

So here is what I have I created...
I had created all these fun spritzers using Distress Inks... and Perfect pearls.... oh I love them... so fantastic.... So I also used some Tim Holtz's masks... and I used the flourish masks... three of them... love the background... You will see just that in a minute...

Then I made all these little tags... and on each one a picture of my Mom and my Nana with CARS.... wow...

For the WINGS... I used a Tim Holtz stamp with a bird cage... and then added a bird using his cage and bird die cut.... I cut the bird out with AC foil... so it was silver... so I used distress embossing powder to create the pretty colors on my little bird..

So here is the background paper that I made...

I used as I said some Tim Holtz masks... and also my distress/perfect pearls to create this paper...

AND also used the same on my rose which is made from parchment paper.. and then the glimmer put on it...

I wrinkled the entire paper prior to putting the rose on there...

I also took a sheet of package plastic... and used my archival inks to print a few flourishes on there...

I used stamples to attach the plastic to the paper... which was also mounted onto a sheet of black bazzill paper... love that paper too... which created a pocket for the tags to fit into and for easy viewing... 
I really didn't want to hide the background paper... but at the same time... that is what it is... BACKGROUND... but I love it... that is why my paper stash is so very large... too many pieces of paper that are too perfect to use for things... LOL... 

 So Gingersnap challenge was TRANSPORTATION.... and that is why I used only pictures of my mom with cars... they had a lovely car and always had fresh flowers in the vases on the wall of the car... I still can sort of remember them on  the side of one of the cars we had when I was small... can you image that today.... YIKES....

My Mom is sitting here waiting to go to the beach... the bird I told you about above...

 Here is a picture of my Mom stepping out of the car... look at the precious little "bloomers"... so cute...

I used some Spellbinder lace on the side of this tag... I made all my tags using the Distress inks with Perfect pearls added... love that stuff.... of course you remember that I also make all my ribbons by using seam binding and dyes.... oh I guess I am totally addicted to that... the man where you order it from... he knows the lasts 4 digits of my credit card without looking it up... is that good???? LOL...

Here is a picture of my Mom and Nana... at the beach...  cute litttle WOOLEN bathing suit... and they lived in FLORIDA.... of course it was not proper for a LADY to put on a swim suit, so my poor Nana had on a dress and stocking and hat when they were at the beach...

ugh... glad I was born when I was... 

I used some more perfect pearls and distress inks to create the tag... and also some spellbinder paper laces...  and of course seam binding tape on all the tags...

 So that is my page... and all the tags nicely fit into the pocket... and the page is really nice in the book...

Hope that you are having fun creating... I love doing that... going to make some paper beads this afternoon for a friend... she sent me a pretty letter and and the sides of the letter had flowers... so will make some beads and attach them to a piece of ribbon for her... she will love using them in her art... so much fun to swap things around... 

We are also going to do some rain dances this afternoon... praying for a lot of rain... so we don't loose our butternut squash crop...

Thanks for coming by for a visit... and hope that you come back tomorrow...  

Love, Light and Peace... Bonnie