My First Video: Tim Holtz Tag Swap

{is this thing on...i tried posting this wednesday and blogger shut down on me}

As soon as I figure out how to embed YouTube videos, I'll do so here. For now please use this link.

I'm super excited to say that I recorded and uploaded my first YouTube video today. I participated in a tag swap over on Life on the Scrapbeach. For this swap, we were to use Tim Holtz techniques to do a masculine, feminine, or patriotic tag. I chose feminine without thinking twice. But...once I started I couldn't decide on a technique. I think I was in an extra "girly" phase that day and decided to go with sparkle. I heart Perfect Pearls. So that's what I did. After inking the background, I spray it with a homemade perfect pearls mist. Then I used a gold perfect pearls powder. Lots of fun, but I'm not convinced that this doesn't need a fixative. I even sprayed with water to "bind" it, although Tim says that the Perfect Medium is enough. Time will tell. I created a rosette using the Tim Holtz die and layered it with tulle cut with the tattered florals die. The top layer is an "I am Roses" flower colored with a re-inker and perfect pearls mist(I told ya I love this stuff), stamped with a script stamp, and rubbed with rock candy stickles. The pearl was colored with a Copic marker. The bookplate was cut from the TH tag die and painted with the gold dabber from Ranger. The center is raised on pop dots. It is finished with dyed seam binding, a safety pin, a charm and some tulle. On the back I used Tim's wrinkled distress technique for the background. The envelope flap was done with a mask. I originally intended to place my info card in the envelope, but it was really difficult to remove. So I attached it to the flap instead. I like how it turned out. We made six and kept one. So sometime soon I'll receive five beautiful works of art in return. Now I just need to find some way to display them.
Check out the video. Did I mention it's my first. Hehe. I can't help it, I'm excited. I've already filmed the next one, so check back soon. It's for a Graphic 45 Tag Swap.

Until next time...
Tamekia