One Word: Frameworks!!

I LOVED this challenge.  Frameworks.  One word, that's all, just use a Frameworks die any way you like!!  I needed a simple challenge this time due to all the stuff going on in my life (can I get an amen???).  Besides this one just gave me joy.  I like joy.

This is sort of a personal message for me as I'm going through some changes personally and professionally that are exciting and a tiny bit scary.  I'm really jazzed about the future "and so the adventure begins...."

I cut a couple of sections of Tim's Trellis Frameworks die out of Grungeboard.  I glued that down the lateral border of a #10 tag.  I like #10 tags.  I used some sewing pattern tissue and tore sections of it and glued them down over the Frameworks.  I took a stiff paint brush (Dina Wakley's brushes work nicely) and used them like a stencil brush, working the tissue down into and around the Frameworks shape.  This idea came from a tech Candy Colwell uses brushing gesso over dimensional shapes and then painting or spraying.  I can't remember where I got the idea of adding the layers of tissue.  If I remember, I'll edit this post.  My poor brain.....

 I thought it was kind of cool that the word "vogue" was just where I was was tearing tissue, so that HAD to go down on my tag.

 I painted over all the tag with Dina Wakley's Turquoise paint.  Then I painted over all that with Gesso and then painted over with Turquoise paint again.  I don't know why I painted with the first coat of Turquoise.  #dontjudgeme  I just did.

Then I spritzed over the Frameworks area with Antiqued Bronze Distress Spray Stain.  I used a little rubbing alcohol (surgical spirits) on a cotton cloth and rubbed over the high areas where the Frameworks die is raised.

These are the things I used to create just the background of the tag.  I used Walnut Stain Distress Ink around the edges of the tag and over the Frameworks, rubbing the high areas with rubbing alcohol again.

After the love affair with Remnant Rubs last challenge, I simply had to add a few here.  This was really fun.  I used them on the Frameworks which meant that only some of the Rubs would connect, giving me kind of a partial application.  LOVE.  Really, in love with that.

 I pressed and pushed the Remnant Rubs in the recessed areas to make them conform to the shape.

I used the "untransferred" Rubs onto a spare tag, giving me a head start on a future project.

I used a B Line Designs "Annabelle" stamp for my focal point.  Love this lady, so elegant.  My little signature bird (another B Line stamp) sits on her shoulder.  Tim's sentiment is PERFECT for me now.  The belt, which binds, is now loosened and my lady is ready to fly.

• Visit Linda's awesome blog (it really is awesome, have you bookmarked it???) to get the lowdown on all the CC3C guidelines
• Go to your stash and grab that Frameworks die (or order one from Inspiration Emporium)
• Check your copy of Compendium of Curiosities III (or order it here from The Duke of Distress Hizzelf)  You gotta have your own copy.  You WANT your own copy!!
• CREATE
• Link your project on Linda's still awesome blog
• COMMENT on the Curiosity Crew blogs, and be eligible to win fabulous prizes!!!

SOOPER loot from Professor Holtz and his Teaching Assistant, Mario Rossi, for the Curiosity Crew choice
AND
A generous gift certificate from Inspiration Emporium for our random winner!

Scrumtrulescent.