Botanical Tag - Tim Holtz Chapter 2 Dies

It's Spring! And with the coming of spring we have some new Chapter 2 dies from Tim Holtz and Sizzix. I made this botanical tag as a sample for Tim's garden shed Sizzix booth at Creativation 2019.

It showcases one of the NEW Sizzix Chapter 2 dies called Potted that I paired with one of the Chapter 1 die sets called Wildflower Stems 2

To highlight the various ways the Potted die can be used, I cut three large tags from the Stacked Tags die set, and then picked one of the Wildflower Stems 2 to be growing out of it. 

I colored each tag with some Hickory Smoke and Pumice Stone Distress ink using the "wrinkle-free Distress method."

For the first tag, I picked the daisy stem, cut three of them from Distress Mixed Media Heavystock,  and watercolored them with Distress Inks.

 

On the first tag, I made the barrel. I colored some Distress Woodgrain Cardstock with brown Distress Inks, and then cut out the main bucket shape. I cut out a second bucket shape from chipboard. Then I cut the woodgrain bucket into vertical strips to mimic the boards that make a bucket. The bands were cut from Distress Mixed Media Heavystock and then colored with Distress Inks. I finished it off with two of the small Hexnut Hardware Heads colored with Alcohol Inks to make them look old and rusted.

The second tag has purple salvia growing out of an old, mossy terra cotta pot.

I cut three of this shape from the Wildflower Stems 2 set and watercolored them green and various purples.  These could be lavendar, or liriope, or I chose to make them salvia.

For this potted sample I went with the terra cotta pot version.  You can make the pots two ways.  You can cut the back as the main, tall pot/bucket/barrel size, or as I did here, I used the smaller size pot which can double as a center band for the taller pot. This made my terra cotta pot a little shorter than the other two on this piece but I like the option of having it both ways. I colored it with Distress Ink and then sealed it with Distress Collage Medium Matte.
For the moss, I pounced some grit paste onto the terra cotta pot with my finger, let it dry, and then colored it with Peeled Paint Distress Crayon.

For the last tag, I went with the Tiger Day Lily in a aged galvanized bucket.

I cut three of the daylily stems and colored them with Distress Inks just like the other three.

For the aged galvenized bucket, I cut both the small and large container shapes. I colored them with Distress Oxides and Distress Inks. Then I cut the No7 from the Numbers die set. I colored the cut out pieces with Black Soot Distress Ink and then inserted them back into the spaces so that it kind of looks like the numbers were stenciled onto the bucket.

The labels for all of the flowers were cut from a NEW Alphanumeric called just that, Label.  It's one of my new favorite alphabets. It's tiny and you can cut a ton of words for even a small space. Look at all those letters in this set!

All of these tags were adhered to a large Etcetera Tag that had been aged with Ranger's Opaque Crackle Paste.
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Tami

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