Tag Tuesday - School

Tag Tuesday (Belle-South Blog Garden) Challenge has the theme of schooldays this week. However, there is an additional requirement involving some aspect of school. I chose report cards as my extra. This is actually a picture of my first grade report card (grades showing), my second grade report card, and my third grade school picture. The fancy S background is a freebie from Dover.

The distressing thing about my early report cards is that I got Bs in drawing and writing and everything else was A. And my talents now lie in art and calligraphy. So I guess we shouldn't be too quick to say a child isn't talented in something. Or it could mean that everyone can do art, if they try.

I'm posting the enlarged report card so you can see how many aspects of our little lives were graded! I see I had a B in music, too. The smudges are not erasures. I think this must have gotten wet. Or perhaps those were tears due to the Bs.

Recycle Tag

Here is my tag for Tag Tuesday, made from stuff from the trash: cracker box, Ziplok box, corn can label, Michael's unused, expired coupon, and my Stampin' Up stamp of the flower (the stamp is not from the trash!)

Shine on Harvest Moon...

Tag Tuesday's challenge is the Moon. I am completely at a blank for this one. But just so I don't get used to being art-idle, I am entering this very simple tag. The requirement is that the moon be the focal image.

Stamp - Stampinback
Ink = Whisper White  Stampin' Up

Blog Challenge Garden & TIO & Pecreativ

For Blog Challenge Garden (Tag Tuesday) the theme this week is the letter A. My A stands for automobile.  For Tag it On the challenge is Time to make a Getaway. I travel mostly by automobile.

My tag is a paper collage using old postcards and maps. The letter A is stamped in clear ink with a stamp from Stamp Francisco and embossed in copper embossing powder.

After looking at the map in today's paper, I discovered the epicenter of the earthquake yesterday was 23 straight miles from our house. No wonder everything was shaking so badly. I've looked from attic to crawl space and inside and out and have found no damage.

Thursday Editing:
Irmi says that this also qualifies for Pecreativ Challenge.

Tag Tuesday - Vintage Photo

This is my tag I have made for Tag Tuesday - vintage photo. The photo is of my great-great-grandmother. I don't know why they never smiled in pictures, except I've heard that taking a picture might mean sitting perfectly still for several minutes.

Tag Tuesday - A Face

I created Li'l Redhead when my red-haired granddaughter was just a child. My sister has a collection of the drawings, which she mentioned in an email this week. It reminded me that I haven't done a Li'l Redhead drawing in ages. So when I saw Tag Tuesday's theme is A Face, I decided to do her face on a tag.

Tag Tuesday - 10 minute tag

My tag was made in ten minutes, but it took longer to scan it and to put it on my blog!

My background is one I made last night with alcohol inks. The flower is also one I had experimented with last night. The stamps are Stampin' Up.

This is my Tag Tuesday entry.

Tag Tuesday - Butterfly

Here is my entry for Tag Tuesday (Butterfly) hanging from a white-flowered Butterfly Bush (Buddleia). Another Buddleia is in the background and has purple flowers.

I started with watercolor paper that I sprayed with a pale lavender. I put some Ranger Milled Lavender Distress Ink reinker ink on my craft sheet and loaded up my butterfly stamp with the ink and stamped away. The butterfly at the bottom was cut using an EK Success punch and some paper by DCWV Premium Stacks (Old World). The music tape is Tim Holtz. The gold swirl is one I designed using my 3 initials and cut out by hand and embossed with Ranger superfine gold ep.

Tag Tuesday - Orange & Black

This tag was made for Tag Tuesday where the theme is orange and black but not Halloween or autumn.

I used my photo of a marigold and made a digital brush from it. Then I printed it out in the specified colors.

Please click on image to enlarge.

Summer red and lime green tag

This tag is for Paper Minutes (red and lime green) and Tag Tuesday (summer).

The background was made digitally using Dezinaworld background and some brushes I designed. I printed that off and found this delightful lighthouse that was white and red. (The house looks gray in the scan but it really is white.)

Pink-Green Tag and Written Word

Sorry my background turned out almost the same color as the tag. Pink and green tag is my entry for Tag Tuesday. The words are for The Three Muses.

 I found this kit by Paper Bliss that had green. I made the flower and added a few things to the tag. I loved that it had definitions so it qualified for written word. Plus I added the sentiment: memories.

Tag Tuesday - Strawberry

This tag was made for Tag Tuesday. When I saw the theme was strawberry, I was stunned. My dh and I went to the local berry farm this afternoon and bought strawberries to make into freezer jam. We ended up buying 16 quarts of the goodies. Now let me tell you that that is a LOT of strawberries. They are huge, sweet, and in perfect shape. But my sweetie wanted me to get after them right after dinner, which I did. We called our son to come and please take 3 quarts off our hands. The second photo is what we got. As you see I used every available jar and plastic container I could locate.

NOTE: My strawberry jam is not cooked. I followed the recipe on the Sure-Jell package. You mix the Sure-Jell (pectin mix) with sugar and boil for a minute. Then you dump in mashed up strawberries and mix well. Put into jars and let set up for 24 hours. Then freeze for up to a year. We just today finished off last year's jam. Now we have another whole year's worth in the freezer

Tag Tuesday - The Deep

This is my tag for Tag Tuesday where the theme is "The Deep" as in the ocean. The stamp is by the Embossing Arts Co. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils.

Tag Tuesday - Blue and Green

Here is my entry for Tag Tuesday where the theme is blue and green and where we must use a real stamp*. My background paper is actually blue and green so that was a cinch. I took some pale green card stock Laura gave me and stamped the butterfly on it. The flowers are from a decorative paper.

*Just was reminded that Tag Tuesday does not require a stamp. It is another tag challenge called Tag it On that requires a real stamp.

Three in One Entry

Here is my tag for Tag Tuesday (Arbor Day) and for Paper Minutes (olive green, cream, and rose), and for Created by Hand (ribbons). Normally I try to avoid doing multiple challenges with one entry because I end up not doing justice to any of the challenges. However, all three fit in so well that I hope this is ok.

Tag Tuesday - Easter

I made this tag/bookmark for TagTuesday in a form that it could be mailed as an Easter greetings. The flowers are Fiskar punches. The leaves are heart punchouts. The background was made on a piece of watercolors. I put  down some distress inks on my craft sheet, spritzed them with water. Then I took my background stamp and wiggled it through the different soupy inks.

Tag Tuesday - Vintage Sewing

This week Rebecca has chosen the theme of Vintage Sewing for the Tag Tuesday challenge. I grew up with dotted swiss, hand basting, and homemade dresses. My mother even owned one of these treadle machines for a while. Each summer my sister and I had to make a dress. She started when she was 8 and made her first dress entirely with a sewing needle and thread. Since I was almost 10 I was allowed to use the new sewing machine. To make the machine go, I had to push against a lever with my knee. My sister got a prize for her red and white dress. Of course we did the best job we could since we had to wear the dresses to school in the fall.

This is not really dotted swiss; it is paper. The stamps are from Stampin' Up.

Spring's Bright Colors on a Tag

I am entering this colorful abstract tag in the Wednesday Stamper (Fabulously Colorful) and in the Tag Tuesday (Think Spring) challenges.

Louise, so faithful in creating wonderful challenges for Tag Tuesday, is "hanging up the towel." Rebecca has decided to pick up the mantel and have Tag Tuesday on her blog.

This tag is a wild array of alcohol inks that I dropped onto shiny cardstock and then blew through a drinking straw to disperse the colors. The one 3-D flower was made from my heart punch and a daisy punch. The flower stamp is by Stampin' Up

Tag Tuesday - Postcards

Postcards is the two-week challenge for Tag Tuesday. Here is my tag made on some decorative paper, embellished with "Paris" from some wonderful paper I bought in Charleston SC and the 1900s image from Dover Publications. The stamps are from Stampin' Up.

Tag Tuesday - Friends

I'm revisiting "An Altered Journey," a DVD with Tim Holtz. I think I've had it 4 or 5 years and it has been a while since I've viewed it.

For Louise's Tag Tuesday challenge (friends), I used Tim's brayer embossing technique with metallic tape and some wonderful alcohol inks . The "dear friend" stamp is from Stampin' Up's Dear Friend set.

(scanned)

I decided to go sort of generic with these tags, not using an image (dog or person). One uses concave and one uses convex die/punch cuts.




Another view (camera)