New Flowers From Tim Holz

A few days ago, Tim Holtz had a giveaway on his blog. He's getting ready to teach classes on a cruise, and has some really cool collaged paper flowers he'll be using. They're called "Artful Collage Flowers" from Prima. Anyone who submitted a comment had a chance to win a drawing for one of three packages of flowers. I submitted a comment, assuming that as usual, I'd never win. Was I ever excited when I checked his blog the next day, and saw that "Immi" was one of the lucky winners! I promised Tim that I'd get to work right away, and post photos on my blog.



I got them in the mail today, and they really are awesome. I decided to do a quick tag to get my feet wet. I already had the stamped image on a manila shipping tag that I'd done quite some time ago. (Love those shipping tags!) I did some watercoloring on top of what I'd stamped, tore the bottom, and inked the edges. I layered it on top of a scrap of Asian paper I had. Both these layers were attached to black. I love using black paper to make things "pop". I used my good old-fashioned label gun for the word "trust". I attached the flower with a black snap (yes, the kind you use for sewing). I think I'll find some rough brown twine to string through the hole.



This tag would be great on a card or scrapbook page, but I'm planning to clip it to my recent antique purchase (http://experimentsincreativity.blogspot.com/2008/04/interesting-find.html) hanging on the door of my studio.



I really like these flowers, and look forward to doing some more fun stuff with them. It's going to be so easy to use them since they're already collaged. Thanks, Tim!