Message in a Bottle

Over the past week I’ve learned 50 new French verbs and when I kept staring longingly at PEINDRE, (the verb to paint), I knew I was in desperate need of some creative down time!

I made a second tag inspired by Tim’s May 12 tags of 2015 and yet again the photobooth card inspired my beach theme. I thought the girl in the photo looked liked she was on holiday in Hawaii! The photobooth cards are fantastic for giving you somewhere to start and my tired brain was very grateful for all the creative inspiration it could get!

I used the Tim Holtz bubble stencil with Ranger texture paste and the new mermaid lagoon distress ink to create bubbles. After applying the ink, I spritzed some water over the top and then patted dry with a paper towel to lighten the shade. I love that you can build and dilute the distress ink colour so easily! I dyed some cheesecloth with antique linen distress spray to look like fishing net and attached with a tiny attacher staple which I concealed under watercolored blueprint star fish! I attached pearl beads with glossy accents to make it look like they had been caught in the net.

I wanted some nautical themed elements for my tag so I used some idea-ology to create an anchor. I cut the head off an adornment arrow and attached a mini pin to the back with glossy accents. Once completely dry, I attached the chain and hung from the tag.

Another nautical themed item I wanted to create was a message in a bottle with wet sand inside! I remembered Tim showing a technique for making sand in last years 12 tags. I adapted the technique slightly as I needed to make it inside the tiny bottle, but check out Tim’s technique, it’s really really cool.

I got so involved that I only took one snap for instagram! It’s really easy to do though…

Directions:
-remove cork from the glass vial and screw an eye into the top (set aside)
-take a small piece of paper 1/8 smaller in height than the glass vial and distress and ink the edges
-roll up into a scroll and secure with a little glossy accents (set aside)
-fill glass vial to 1/8 with antique linen distress embossing powder
-carefully drop glossy accents into the middle of the glass vial being careful not to get any on the inside sides
-use a pockey tool to mix into a paste
-drop the scroll and a few pearl beads into the bottle and set aside to dry
-secure the cork with a little glossy accents and once dry, attach the chain and it’s ready to hang
*once the paste dries it won’t move around inside the glass bottle and will adhere the message into place

Thanks for taking the time to look at my tag. You can see this months tag and techniques on Tim’s blog and you can see the post translated into French on Scrapdeco’s blog.

For lots of inspiration check out the following challenges:
Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2015
Inspiration Journal Monthly Challenge