Ephemoire Design Team March Project Share

Today I have my first project to share for the month of March as part of the Design Team for Ephemoire Digital Designs, 2 different creations. My first piece is a 8x10 inch painting canvas that I altered in a mixed media way.  As you can see I painted different brush strokes with a variety of brush sizes. I used 4 colors, green, cream, light brown and a gold acrylic and adhered one of the images thats part of a journal kit  (Irish Eyes Journal Kit) with matte medium. When I cut out the image I did used a little bit of Heidi Swapp's Color Shine in gold to the edges. The flowers are from Dollar Tree that I hoarded away from a couple of years ago but I have found that they are always available during the month of Feb/Mar while they have their St. Patrick's Day decor. The fabric bow is a strip of fabric I tore from a swatch I had available. And that is it for this canvas decor.

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My second project using 2 of the digital kits; Irish Eyes Journal Kit and Irish Loaded Mini Envelope Printable. I put together and assortment of tags that vary in shapes and sizes. Some include pockets with little pull out tags and some have neat little embellishments that were altered to have a cohesive look. http://facebook.com/ephemoire

Tag Fip Book

The tags were created in a variety of ways using tag shaped dies to hand cutting. I did do a lot of ink distressing to the tags using Tim Holtz brand, colors I used were Brushed Corduroy and Walnut stain. A couple were distressed with the Oxide Inks in the color Peeled Paint.

These tags below all used the papers from the kit, I did do all the fussy cutting to the images shown. I used some buttons for centerpieces and a bit of trims/ribbons for that added element that will capture the viewers interest.https://etsy.me/2xuK5V3

The next group of tags you can see that these are pocket tags that contain extra mini tags. This was a great digital kit that included many pieces available to cut apart and adhere where I needed them. I also created a shaker tag, its hard to see that the paper used is from the collection and has a water color appearance. The velum was sprayed with Heidi Swapps Color Shine in gold and the wording, shamrock are stickers from Reminisce (circa 2005ish).

Irish Loaded Mini Envelope and Irish Eyes Journal Kit cut outs

The last tag is the largest and I used 3 vintage book pages that were the size 3.45x5in after watching a tutorial video on youtube by Tina (channel name: shabbydabbydoodah) called "Another Large Junk Journal Pocket" but I altered my tag pockets in a vertical pattern. Folding 2 pages at different points I was able to create the pockets and using the journal kit papers I cut them down to fit into the pockets. Each little tag has a tab thats also included in the kit. I did do a lot of sewing (not perfect by the way!) to 1, adhere close the pockets and 2, around each tag.
                                              

Pocket Tag embellished with stamps, paper scraps, washi tape and a button sequin flower.


This was such a great project to do and the opportunity to create whatever came to mind allowed me to  put in my spin on these digital designs and also to inspire others who might not be too encouraged to try out digital images. We gotta start somewhere so why not just go for it! So head over to any one of the sites available for more ideas and inspiration.
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