The theme for this week's challenge at Studio L3 is from Tim Holtz' 12 Days of Christmas tags - Day 10, 2007.
The technique, shabby chic, and many more can be found by checking out Tim's web site and going to his blog.   Rather than using a regular light colored shipping tag, I selected a black one.  I attempted to use yellow and orange paint daubers but the paint was too dry so I went to a gold and white generic brand but that didn't work to my satisfaction so I applied a metallic green over the top and then wiped the inks off of the clear embossed image.  I really like this effect. 

The tag was not adorned with fibers or ribbons because I may want to add some fancy elements depending on its final use.

LOVE HOW THIS ONE TURNED OUT!  The stamped image is a floral by Penny Black.

We have a friend who has a birthday in a week or so.  They have three horses so I made this card for him.  The image is one from Inka, formerly Inka's Rubber Stamps.

I have always been afraid of horses but love to watch them from afar.  My friend, Judy, gave me a couple of stamps with horses and I thought they'd make terrific Fathers Day cards.  All I need to do now is find an appropriate greeting.

Below are the two cards I stamped on canvas.  For the yellow one, I sprayed too much water on the canvas and the inks really ran so I inked up the stamp and applied it a second time without any water.

I prefer using the watercolor stock because the results are much brighter per the cards in my previous post.

Over at Studio L3, we are continuing to review Tim Holtz' techniques and this week was right up my alley because I love to create using flower images.  I actually created five but finished two to post for the Monday Grunge Challenge.  I will upload the others when they are mounted.

The fun part of the experiment for me was using two different types of card stock -- one watercolor paper and the other watercolor canvas.

Both samples here were created on Strathmore 132 water color paper.

It feels good to get back to some of my routine weekly art projects.  This morning I signed on to Linda's blog for GRUNGE MONDAY and created a tag using Tim's coloring technique.