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.

Art Journal pages

 A few more recent art journal pages

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.

A few recent journal pages

Genesis tribute page

Love, light, laughter

This is a random page

Watch the birdy

Elephants never forget

Do you believe in Magic

Hearts

The theme for Tag Tuesday this week is 'Hearts'

I recycled my tag from the bin at work, I crinkled it up a bit and painted it white. I dabbed purple ink on the tag and around the edges, added an inchie with a purple felt heart.

The big heart I cut from an old piece of kitchen paper that I use to wipe my brushes.  I added a tyvek bead, a tiny heart and a purple ribbon to finish,

I've been making a few beads to use as embellishments in future projects. 

Fabric Beads

Tyvek Beads

Tyvek Beads

Art Journal

Some of my recent journal pages

Tag Tuesday - Lace

Ooh la la.
Here is my lace contribution to Tag Tuesday for week 5.  
As you can see, I'm back to my signature colour purple  ;-)
I painted the tag with amethyst metallic and blue acrylic paint and then stamped some swirls, a London postmark and some script.  I covered this with black embroidered and sequinned lace.  My burlesque lady has been painted with amethyst metallic paint and inktense pencils.

Tag Tuesday - Week 4 - Vintage

My contribution for Tag Tuesday this week.

This is Barn-E, my lovely orange 1974 VW Beetle.

He is presently undergoing a full restoration

by my VW specialist husband, Carl.
I love them both to bits. x

Barn-E 'Work in Progress'

I can't wait until he's finished but

customer vehicles have to come first

This is Burn-E, my husband's work van.  

He's a 1974 German ex-Fire Service van

White

'White' tag - week 3


Here is my effort for Tag Tuesday

It's a white card tag with embellished inchies and 

fabric beads decorated with white, pearl and 

silver bugles, seed beads and silver wire.

To finish, I punched the corners with little hearts and

added white satin and organza ribbon

GoTh Sk8TeR cHicK

I joined Tag Tuesday and this is my entry for week 2, Snow games and sports.

I used purple organza for the skirt and decorated with gold seed beads

and purple bugle beads.

Her hair is Eskimo doubleknit wool

I finished the tag with some nail varnish,

a gold stamp and gold border

Tag Tuesday

Yay, I have joined Tag Tuesday 
It's great to see all the different styles and ideas everyone comes up with.

Here is my contribution.  I didn't have an actual luggage tag so I used a piece of lilac felt roughly the right size.  I then cut two pieces of cotton, one slightly smaller than the other, frayed the edges and machined them to the felt.  I embroidered snowflakes decorated with beads and finally added some sparkly organza ribbon. 

I'm quite please with how it turned out.