Tree Tags

The Paris tag I made last week used a gessoed magazine page with text on it, which always makes great collage backgrounds.  The magazine I took it from was an old issue of Country Living and there’s more pages of images in there than there is text, so when I was demonstrating it in the [...]

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Underwater Stamps

I said I would show you a tag and this one features a pot of gold from the Underwater Kingdom plate. The background is Distress inks (Mustard Seed and Crushed Olive mainly with a touch of Tumbled Glass).  I stamped the mermaid silhouette with Scattered Straw I think, then I used some of the seaweed [...]

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I made some stuff!

Yay!  I got time to craft last night and apart from stamping a sentiment upside down on a really nice tag, I am quite pleased with my output.  Inspired by Lesley’s class last week, I made these scrunchy flowers with a nestabilities die, ecoline watercolours and three different embossing powders. Then I looked around for [...]

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Christmas things

There are some beautiful hand crafted Christmas cards starting to arrive at the office.  We appreciate each and every one of them and I would like to make this my public thank you to all of you who send cards to us – we do appreciate it, but we simply don’t have enough time to [...]

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Studio 490 Tags

I’ve been playing with Wendy Vecchi’s Studio 490 stamps again. I was tempted to take part in a swap, but I know from past experience that I  have to make the swap items before I sign up as if I sign up first, the looming deadline just kills the creativity stone dead.  So I thought [...]

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Hope

Another one from the open days, this is the sentiment on the Curly Birds themeplate. The soft colour in the background of the tag was done with a stylus tool, gently swirling ink from a Kaleidacolour inkpad (Melon Melody). The tails of the birds have been used as flourishes around the edges with Versamagic chalk [...]

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Tim’s Tags

Like many thousands of people, we have enjoyed watching Tim Holtz’s 12 tags of Christmas unfold on his blog and here they are in all their glory. Aren’t they gorgeous? If you click on a tag it will take you to Tim’s blog where you can see how each tag is made step by step. [...]

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Oriental Tags

I have been having a little play this weekend with Glimmer Mists (no surprise there). I seem to have a huge amount of tags which I have sprayed up, but not much in the way of larger sheets of paper. So I took a random selection of different types of paper, cut it in half [...]

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Girly Grungeboard tags

So, I got home last night clutching my swirls Alphabet Grungeboard and I’ve not had a great deal of time, but managed to squeeze in a couple of tags. I’m obviously in a girly mood as I reached for pinks and purples, with a splash of acid/olive green. I painted the grungeboard letter with a [...]

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