Tag You're It Guest Designer

Yay! I'm super delighted to be Guest Designing with Tag You're It today. And it's a pretty little Autumn scene on the challenge graphic.

Here's how it inspired me:

I chose some fleck kraft card from Papermilldirect for my top tag and stamped the framed zinnias at the bottom and a greeting at the top. I then stamped, coloured and hand cut some leaves and pumpkins and added them on top using foam pads.

I then die cut a larger tag in mocha brown card and tied them both together with ribbon and fibres.

Supplies:
Stamps: STAMPlorations, Framed Zinnia, Wonderfall Time
Inks: SU, early espresso
Card: Papermilldirect, fleck kraft, mocha brown
Colours: Prismacolor, yellow ochre, canary yellow, goldenrod, pale vermillion, poppy red, crimson red, olive green, burnt ochre, dark umber
Ribbon & fibres from my stash

Thanks so much for dropping by today. I'll be back in an hour with a coffee themed card - twice in one day, how's that for busy?!

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing a tag I created to play along with the challenge at Tag You're It.

All those beautiful autunal colours and leaves in the inspiration photo really appealed to me. Here's my tag:

I cut the tag using my Silhouette Cameo and then placed the Funky Fossil Forest Foliage stencil over it and inked through with three colours of distress oxide inks.

I kept it very simple just matting it onto a purple slightly larger tag and then onto an even larger green tag all tied together with multi coloured twine. I added a wooden leaf to finish it all off.

Supplies:

Stencil: Funky Fossil, Forest Foliage

Inks: Ranger distress oxide, fossilised amber, candied apple

Die: tag cut with Silhouette Cameo

Embellishments: Funky Fossil, Spring Wreath MDF pack

Thanks for looking today, it's been so fun to have your company.

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing a tag I created to enter the challenge at Tag You're It.

Such a pretty inspiration picture, loving all those banners!

Once I'd die cut my tag I stamped two rows of banners and then added a birthday cake underneath.  I coloured them using my Copic pens and then added the greeting. I took another look at that inspiration photo and decided I needed to add a duck and the little cheeky MFT one was added.

All I needed to do to finish off my tag was add some ribbons. Or was it? Nope, I added some glossy accents to the stars and hearts, then I stopped!

supplies:
Stamps: Catherine Pooler, Birthday Icons; Uniko, greeting from Simply Said; MFT, duck from Rain or Shine
Inks: Memento, tuxedo black
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Pens:Copic, R81, R83, R85, YR15, B06, B14, C0, C1, C3, W3

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's always fun to have some company.

And keep crafting!

Friday Focus

Today I'm joining in with the challenge at Tag You're It. They have a pretty little inspiration photo with a real vintage vibe going on.

This is how it inspired me:

Once I'd die cut the stitched tag I stamped the Uniko Peony using brown ink and coloured it using Prismacolor pencils. Then I laid the Funky Fossil stencil over the top and inked through it with blue ink. I found a little bird stamp and placed it above the peony and then added three buttons to form a triangle around the flower.

I finished it all off by matting it onto a base tag and adding a trio of twines tied into a bow.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Pure Florals Peony; Clearly Besotted, bird from Fright Night
Inks: SU, baked brown sugar; Memento, Summer Skt=y
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Colurs: Prismacolor, white, olive green, dark green, limepeel, magenta, pink, crimson red, process red
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Circle Burst

Thanks for looking today, it's always so much more fun when you visit.

And keep crafting!

Saturday Spot

I can't resist a tag challenge and today i'm playing along with Tag You're It where the theme is a bookmark. Because a bookmark is a type of tag after all!

And traditional Fairy Tales are a fabulous way to start out on a reading adventure:

The sentiment was computer generated and printed out before I die cut the book mark shape. I then stamped and coloured to my heart's content. Great thing about Fairy Tales is that you can indulge yourself by using all your favourite colours.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Fairy Tale Maiden
Inks: Memento, tuxedo black
Pens: Copic, G94, G99, B000, B01, B02, B04, E000, E57, E59, BV000, BV01, RV02, RV04, RV09, R20
Die: Lil'inker, stitched mats long & skinny rectangles
Sentiment font: Take It Or Leave It

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's been so good to have your company.

And keep crafting!

Saturday Slot

Today I'm sharing a tag I created that has interactive elements and is for the current challenge at Tag You're It.

Here's it is:

I started by using the fabulous Doodle Wheels stencil from A Colorful Life and a couple of sea green distress oxide inks to make a background.  I then die cut the tag.

My interactive elements are the two sea horses from Clearly Besotted that I popped up onto card springs so that they wobble when touched. Here's a little video to show their movement.

I finished off the tag with a greeting from Uniko and a trio of matching ribbons.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Sweet Seahorse; Uniko, Birthday Wishes
Inks: Ranger distress oxide, mermaid lagoon, twisted citron; Memento, tuxedo black
Die: MFT Di-namics, stitched traditionla tags
Stencil: A Colorful Life, Doodle Wheels
Pens: Copic, BG01, BG32, BG34, YG13, YG23; Winks of Stella, clear
Springs: Ppaermania
Ribbon from my stash
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It's been so much fun having you visit my blog today, thanks so much for your time.

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing a tag I created for the challenge at Tag You're It.

Such a pretty inspiration image! Here's how I interpreted it:

I was so taken by all the multicoloured umbrellas that I decided to try to create an umbrella background for my tag using a stencil. I used six Memento teardrop colours taking the ink straight through the stencil from the ink pads.

Then I stamped, die cut and coloured the cute MFT umbrella boy and popped him up onto pads for extra dimension. I also stamped a sentiment from the same set and cut it into two to make it fit. I finished off my tag with some multi coloured strands of twine.

Supplies:
Stamps: MFT, Puddle Jumper
Inks: Memento, pear tart, lady bug, dandelion, elderberry, danube blue, bahama blue, tuxedo black; Versafine Clair, nocturne
Stencil: Carta Bella, Deco Dots
Dies: MFT, Puddle Jumper, stitched traditional tags
Pens: Copic, R20, E000, E00, E23, E37, E70, Y13, Y18, YG13, YG23, B00, B02, B04, R29, R39
Twine from my stash

Huge thanks for dropping by my blog today, I'm so delighted that you did.

And keep crafting!

Tag You're It Guest Designer

I'm super delighted to be here today with my second spot as Guest Designer at Tag You're It.

I love those dainty flowers and the beautiful colours and this tag came together in no time at all.

I stamped and coloured the little girl and then hand cut her. I paper pieced the dress and then added a background tag using the same paper. I thought the flowers and colours really picked up on the challenge graphic. I added a really apt greeting down the side of the top tag.

I popped her up onto foam pads and then added a trio of matching coloured ribbons to tie the two tags together.

Supplies:
Stamps MFT, Love You A bunch
Ink: Memento, tuxedo black
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Pens: Copic, C0, C3, Y18, Y35, YR15, E000, R20, R22, R24, B02, B04, BV01, BV11, RV55, RV63

Will you be playing along with the Tag You're It Challenge? I love creating tags and the challenge creating on a smaller scale provides. Do go check out the DT cards over on the Tag You're It blog - HERE - they're amazing!

Huge thanks for dropping by today, hope you'll come back again soon.

And keep crafting!

Tag You're It Guest Designer

I'm super delighted to be Guest Designing with Tag You're It today. Thank you so much for this opportunity.

And what a pretty inspiration image to use as a starting point.

I used a host of colours from the graphic and a whole bunch of stamps from Uniko. This was one of those I don't want to stop stamping kind of projects and I really enjoyed creating it.

I finished my tag off with a trio of ribbons and a fairly generic sentiment as I'm not sure how it will be used yet.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Wonderful Day, Mid Century Modern Florals, Fun Flowers, Simply Said II, Happy Succulents
Inks: SU, wisteria wonder, elegant eggplant, mint macaron, emerald envy, pirouette pink, rose red, daffodil delight, tangerine tango, lemon lime twist; Memento, lilac posies, grape jelly, tuxedo black
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Enamel dots & ribbon from my stash

I know the Tag You're It DT will have loads of gorgeous inspiration tags for you to feast your eyes on. Check them all out HERE.

Thanks so much for spending some of your precious time looking at my blog today, I really appreciate it.

And keep crafting!

Friday Focus

Today I'm sharing a tag I created fro a couple of challenges - TAGplorations and Tag You're It

    

Here's my tag:

I decided to create a shaker tag using sequins in the colours from the Tag You're It graphic and I chose a sentiment to express the feelings we all have, or in my case felt, about our mums.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Originally Organic, Just Because
Inks: Memento, tuxedo black
Dies: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags, rectangle peek-a-boo window
Pens: Copic, B18, B23, BV04, BV13, YG13, YG23, R32, R81; Wink of Stella, clear

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moment

I'm embracing my love of creating on a small scale with a tag today. It uses the technique of selective colouring from the challenge at Tag You're It. I was lucky enough to have my tag picked as one of their favourites in their Easter Challenge - HERE - thanks so much!

    

Here's my new tag:

Luckily for me the postman brought me happy mail today and this stamp from STAMPlorations was inside - along with a couple of other purchases. I knew it wold be perfect for this selective colouring technique and got cracking straight away.

I then die cut two more tags increasing in size and stamped the greeting on the middle one and tied them all together with a black ribbon.

Supplies:
Stamps: STAMPlorations, Framed Cherry Blossoms; sentiment from a retired Uniko set
Ink: Memento, tuxedo black
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Pens: Copic, YG13, YG23, E000, RV55, RV63, RV66

Thanks so much for your time today, I'm so pleased you decided to come visit my blog.

And keep crafting!