Tag Tuesday - Hearts

Can you find my hearts? Look closely at the flower. This tag enjoys gesso, scraps of cloth and ribbon, bits of lace and net, glitter, mists, and punched out hearts. Louise at Tag Tuesday is having us do our tags today using hearts.

The text at the bottom doesn't show up well on camera. It says "secret". I thought of the many secrets we hold in our hearts.

Tag Tuesday and Tag it On

Yesterday at the nursing home where I volunteer, we made sailboat - sunset scenes using acrylic paints and cut out decorative papers. Below is my piece I did to show them what to do.  We try to keep the activities simple since several have some dementia and several have only one good hand to do crafts (or anything else) with.

I can't stand to let anything go to waste so I decided to cut up my sample scene and make a tag from the bits. First I cut out 8 inchies. Then I cut out a bit of background from the scene to use as the backdrop on my tag. I stamped that with a blue rose, which you can't see for the inchies. Next I distressed each inchie in SU blue. I stamped each inchie with something that reminds me of summertime. Then I glued them onto my background tag.

Stamps by Studio G and See D's and Stampin' Up.

This tag is for Tag Tuesday (summer) and for Tag It On (Inchies). My 3 colors are orange, blue, and black. I am probably stretching this requirement.

Edit: On closer inspection, I see that some of the orange and blue have run together forming a shade of green, so I guess my colors could be orange, blue and green.

Tag Tuesday - Man

Tag Tuesday has as its theme: Man. My background is a spray of various Moon Shadow and homemade mists. My "friends" stamp is Stampin' Up. Picture is from a magazine.

Tag it On and Wednesday Stamper

There are 2 things that I dearly love about mixed media art. They are things I didn't experience when I was doing only oil painting or watercolor painting. These two things are: alcohol inks and flourishes.

Wednesday Stamper wants us to do art with the theme: I Love. This tag contains the 2 things I love.

Dragon Lady's Tag it On wants us to use acetate and alcohol inks. I have many alcohol inks, but I do not have acetate. I used what I had. I used a piece of plastic document cover (the top part of the card) and Sheer Heaven. I'm not sure what SH is made of. It could be acetate; it could be a toothed plastic. Anyway the lower part was done with the AI on the toothed side of SH. The lower right side and diagonally up toward the left (green to red) was done with the AI on the slick side of the Sheer Heaven. The stamp is from Purple Onion.

TIO -Steampunk

Having only the vaguest clue as to what steampunk means, I am entering this tag aware that I may have missed the boat. I used a background from freezer paper that had been serving as my craft sheet. I used graphics fairy and dover images. My stamps are Stampin' Up. In the spirit of steampunk (I hope) I have used a straightened out paper clip for my fastener.

Steampunk is the theme for this week's Tag it On!

Tag Tuesday - Music

Louise over at Tag Tuesday has set the theme for this week as Music. I thought of the wonderful prize I had won a couple of years ago from Retro Cafe Art and decided to use one of the framed sheet music pieces. The woman playing the piano is from a magazine.

Tag it on - Journey with a Ticket to Ride

Dragon's Dream Tag it On Challenge has as its theme this week: Journey with a Ticket to Ride. Since I just got 2 travel brochures in the mail yesterday, I had much fodder for a travel-related tag. I used the one offering a cruise to Sydney Australia and on to the Great Barrier Reef for the collage part of the tag. Part of the background is handmade mica mists. My stamp was a group of fish, of which I used two, and then heat embossed. The stamp was by Embossing Arts Co. The embossing powders were Moon Glow's Venus violet blue and midnight sapphire. 

Tag it On! - Along the River

My friend Janet is the guest designer for this week's Tag it On! Challenge and has given us such a beautiful pastoral river scene. 

I chose to use my watercolor which I posterized and reduced in size using Photoshop Elements. I printed it out and adhered it to heavy cardstock. The "dream" is a clear See D's stamp. I thought the word was appropriate for several reasons. The first is that the real name of this challenge is dragons dream tag it on. The second is that sometimes catching fish is only a dream.

Tag Tuesday - Inspiration from Home

My entry hall flowers in the copper vase from Mexico is my inspiration for my tag for Tag Tuesday.

I used a watercolor paper I sprayed Moon Shadow mists on. I then rubbed Pearl Ex (copper) around the edges. Sorry the shine didn't come through on this photo (only on the blurry one!). The flower consists of a couple of Stampin' Up stamps and Stampin' Up die cuts, some of which I rubbed with an ink pad. I used a copper wire for the hanger to match the copper vase.

Key to my heart: flowers

This tag is for two challenges, both requiring a real stamp (heart): Tag it On  (key) and Wednesday Stamper (flowers).

Tag Tuesday - recycle, reuse, repurpose

Here is my tag for Tag Tuesday. We are reusing or recycling stuff, something that I grew up doing, only we didn't know the word: recycle. It was just the way of life back in the 40s.

This tag is from materials I got out of the art room trash can, for the most part. There are a few things that I've been saving to reuse, like the stamp and the button. The flower was cut out from a magazine page. The background is a leftover piece of cardstock topped by a colorful paper napkin. Personally, I think it is rather weird looking.

Wednesday Stamper and TIO

This tag was made for two challenges this week: Tag it On (Under the Shadow of the Moon) and Wednesday Stamper (Wild Animals). I have used black cardstock and stamped the elephant and grasses in clear embossing ink and embossed with detail opaque white powder. The moon is a googled moon that I printed and pasted to the tag. The tree branch is a digital brush, added last. If you look carefully you can see a baby elephant beside Mama's leg. Is it better without the tree?

Tag it On! - City

Here is my collaged tag for the Tag it On Challenge. We are to make a tag with the theme: In the City, and we have to use at least one real stamp. I got this city view, the map, and the cathedral scrap from a travel brochure. Dream is my stamp. Other entries for this challenge can be seen at Tag it On!

Tag it On! - Floral Bug

This week's theme for Tag it On is to use a bug and flowers in our tag design, making use of at least one real stamp. I have stamped my calla lilies and butterfly in clear embossing ink and embossed it in gold. The background is the very lovely freebie from Beth, which I learned about from Jacqueline.

Theme Thursday - Art Words

I made on my craft sheet a soupy mix of blue and green Pearl Ex, gum arabic, and water, The card stock was dipped into it. The tag and the card are using that background material. Both are for the Theme Thursday's challenge of Art Words like dream, imagine, cherish, etc.

The neat flower on the card was made using the punch-outs that Laura, my crafty art pal, made today at our crafting play time.

Tuesday Challenges

Louise at Tag Tuesday has us using brown and one other color for our tags this week. I used brown distress ink and one other brown ink around the edges. I stamped one of my new See D's stamps in the center and colored with water based markers. The tiny plastic lavender oval says "health". While the brown ink was still wet I rubbed in some Misty Lavender Pearl Ex powder and sprayed with hair spray.

Crazy Amigos Challenge has the theme of Tags.

Polka Dots and Stripes - Tag Tuesday

Polka dots and stripes is the theme for Tag Tuesday. My background was made by spraying hairspray, water and a couple of PearlEx powders on my craft sheet and laying the tag onto it. When it was dried I rolled some dots onto it and drew the stripes to match. Some Moon Glow glitz spritz and some collage materials and here it is! I thought that little girl was just too cute to pass up with her dotted swimsuit.

MMM - least favorite color

I love most colors so this was hard for me. I finally chose to do a tag for Mixed Media Monday using this olive green that has a lot of red tone to it. I'm not sure that the screen can portray the color correctly. Another less favorite color would be what Beth chose, a vivid hot fuchsia.

Winter Snowflake Tag

Making snowflakes from a scratch is not easy. I see why every snowflake is an original. I had trouble just making each point look somewhat alike. Winter is the theme for Crazy Amigo Challenge; Snowflakes is the theme for Created by Hand Challenge; and Different Shaped Tag is the theme for Tag Tuesday. I used Stampin'Up Heat and Stick powder and Stampendous CrystalSnow.

Tag Tuesday - Punch it!

Here is my tag using a snowflake punch. The tree is a new stamp stamped onto white cardstock and cut out. This is for Tag Tuesday, where the theme is to use a punch.