Some of you may know that my beloved Archiver's closed its doors on February 15th. And while it has been very sad that it is no more, I am grateful for the experience, along with all the forever friends and crafty knowledge I have gained from this wonderful place.
On the bright side I have free time again! Which means I have finally been catching up on all of those projects piling up in my craft cave.
One of the biggest perks to not running from one job to another has been getting to try all those new products I obtained from Archiver's. Like the new(ish) Naturally Aged paint systems from Tattered Angels. I had played around a bit with them prior to this, but only in demos and have been sitting on several sets now since they came out.
The one I was most anxious to use was the Weathered Copper set, gorgeous! I have a couple of projects to share all using this set.
The first is a page I've been sitting on a for quite a while. The papers are from the Kaiser Craft's Miss Empire line, I fell in love with the colors and the designs and the print is one of my favorite art nouveau prints.
I had the photo mat done first and a rough idea of how I wanted the final page to look like, but I just couldn't get it to the next level. In the end I did some splatter painting with turquoise paint and some drops of coconut glimmer glaze just to give it some color.
As I was playing with the Weathered copper tattered angels set it hit me that this was exactly what I wanted on my page. The circle frame I used on the page is a pressed paper frame from Heidi Swapp and it was perfect for the glimmer mists. A couple of feathers tucked behind and I was finally happy calling it done!
After finishing spritzing my frame I had a lot of left over color on my craft sheet. Normally I keep a mop up tag so I wont waste any color, but because of how the colors are layered I wasn't sure how well they would look when I cleaned them up with my tag. However, I almost love the end result on my tags more than I did on my actual attempt!
Watch for more details and photos about this tag, and a tutorial on how I did the bird using some other fun new products I've only just started playing around with!
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