I is for Inchies

I love making inchies, although I usually make them from scraps of fabric.  
These have been made from card and scrummy Dylusions inks.

Inchies tag

H is for...

Hairy Husband!

He's the love of my life and brightens up my day xxx

Mr Klinky

Original photo

Tag Tuesday - Letter G

G is for Gigha

This is the beautiful Isle of Gigha, after which I am named.  It's a small Hebridean island off the west coast of Scotland. A 20 minute ferry ride will take you to this beautiful, island with soft  sandy beaches and a mild climate and higher than average sunshine.

Gigha has a long history, having been inhabited continuously since prehistoric times and is the ancestral home of Clan MacNeill. It fell under the control of the Norse and the Lords of the Isles before becoming incorporated into modern Scotland and saw a variety of conflicts during the medieval period.

I first visited the island way back in 1987.  Last June we spent a week camping on Gigha and enjoying the Isle of Gigha Music Festival as part of our 2000 mile UK tour in our 1974 Volkswagen.

Scottish Mist

E is for Embossing

Embossed Elegance...

My Tag Tuesday contribution has been painted in off white acrylic and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Golden Lustre.  I added an embossed flower which I rubbed with Sunset Gold Lumiere.  

Dylusions Ink Tags

Stamping frenzy...

I just love these Dylusions inks couldn't wait to get some onto these tags.  I'd seen this technique before and wanted to try it out.  I also went a bit mad with loads of stamps and this is the finished result.

I sprayed three different inks; crushed grape, London blue and bubblegum pink and than misted them liberally with water.

You'll get very messy but it's really great fun!

This is Dyan Reaveley's ghosting technique. You spray water through a strencil using a misting spray

I love the effect

I then started stamping...

...and kept building layers until I was happy with the look

Finally, I inked the edges of the tags...

...and tied tham all together with a black ribbon

Tag Tuesday - Letter A

Tag Tuesday - Letter A

My first tag of 2013
A is for Art.  I used green and blue acrylic paints, black Posca pen and Lumiere paint to make this tag.  I finished it off with twisted wine bottle wire and a tyvek bead.

Tag Tuesday - Bunting

Jubilee Tag

Bunting
Here is my tag to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.  Strips of coloured fabric cut out to the Union flag design and stitched onto play foam backing with tiny bunting flags cut out of the scraps.

Tag Tuesday - catch-up!

Spring Flowers

Spring Flowers:
I have been very lazy and haven't been uploading my Tag Tuesday tags recently so here is a job lot!
This is my tag for 'Spring Flowers'.  

Found Objects

Found Objects - I found the driftwood, shell and pottery on the beach at Northam, Bideford which is my home town and one of the North Devon's Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty.  I discovered after a bit of Googling that the piece of stoneware is part of an old ginger beer bottle.  They were made in the 1920s so this one hasn't travelled very far in all that time! They are quite collectable if you mange to find a whole one.

Ginger Beer Bottle

Northam Burrows and Westward Ho!

Gardening

Gardening Tag
Mary, Mary, Quite contrary,
how does your garden grow
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

Purple

Purple:  for this tag I used a Dulux paint colour card trimmed to the same size as a regular tag.  I used the trimmings to make the 'I love Purple' cut-outs.

Tag Tuesday - Book of Kells

I chose the Book of Kells as inspiration for the lettering and decoration for my 'Book' theme this week.
I used tea and distress ink to age the torn paper pages and tag.  For the illuminated letters (which spell Tag Tuesday)  I used black and gold Uni Posca markers and Derwent inktense for colour.  I added a piece of plaited string to finish.
It was great fun to do and I'm very pleased with the end result.

Tag Tuesday - Poetry & Prose

This week for Tag Tuesday I made my tag using card offcuts from another project.  The tag was painted with acrylics and inks and sprayed with cosmic shimmer mist.  I painted the offcuts with various different purple mediums such as Derwent inktense, nail varnish, and acrylic paint. I also added a bit of shot silk and purple satin ribbon.  As purple is my signature colour, I signed it with a purple fingerprint.

Valentine's Day

 It's Valentine's Day this week for Tag Tuesday and I didn't have a clue so I started by having a much needed tidy up of my workdesk.


I'm terrible for keeping absolutely everything in case it might come in handy and I found a red paint covered wipe left over from a recent Journal Page which got me thinking. I distressed it with a heat gun which shrinks the wipe to the approximate size of my tag. I embellished it with various beady bits and bobs and a couple of wired tyvek beads and I added petersham ribbon with the wording.

The heat gun had turned the red paint a bit orangey, so I added a little more red paint here and there, glued the whole thing to a red painted tag and added a bit of skinny ribbon to finish. I'm quite pleased with the result.