Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Ride 'em cowboy!

This week's Compendium of Curiosities challenge uses the Tinted Vision Fragments tutorial found on page 55 of Tim's book.  I didn't have any photos I could use, didn't want to use a stamped image, so, what's a girl to do?  Hey, I have some clip art books on my shelf (definitely need to do a re-org!) and one is Suze Weinberg's and it's chock full of all sizes of artwork that you can use behind memory glass...so why not fragments?  Cool!  I didn't want to make a truly vintage tag so when I saw the cowboy I knew I was onto something different. 

The top layer of the tag uses Wendy' plaid background stamped in Crimson Archival Ink.  Tore the top and bottom then distressed the edges - of course!  The edges were distressed with Barn Door, Vintage Photo and Black Soot.  'Genuine' was stamped with Distress Embossing Ink then Vintage Photo Distressed Powder on top.  A gold pen filled in some of the filigree.  The tag itself was distressed with Vintage Photo and Black Soot then paisley stamps all around the edges (Black Archival Ink).  The Innksentials pen gave them the bandana look.  Cool, huh?  The rest of the stamps are from Stampin' Up (Wanted and Bronc Buster).  A piece of twine to mimic a lariat completes the piece.

14 comments:

  1. I love this tag. I used that book too for my image!

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  2. This is absolutely spectacular! Love the use of the non traditional theme, you pulled it off fantastically! Love the lariat, so cool!

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  3. Fab tag nice to do different!

    Maggie

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  4. This is so awesome! Love the theme you used! Would that be perfect for a guy of any age or what?

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  5. Susan, your cowboy tag is Dang-Tootin' Good! ;-) You did a great job on the Fragment, and I love the little lasso you created. The layout is wonderful, and the little western-theme touches are the background couldn't be more perfect! It's just fab, all the way around. ♥

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  6. Another yeeehaw from me too! Love it!

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  7. Such great detail in your fab-u-lous tag!

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  8. love the stamped image in the background and a very individual tag too, love the addition of the rope at the bottom works fantastically with the image you have used. Tracy x

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  9. This turned out just perfect. I love that you used red!

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