This is the first tag I have made and it fits in nicely with with the Tuesday Challenge on Created by Hand
I cut out a tag shape on textured red card almost A4 size in length - then stamped using a Kodomo stamp and embossed the left hand side with gold, and used a fine textured Japanese paper bag for the right hand side.
I scanned into my computer a Geisha, enlarged her and then enhanced her with water colours.
On her back I painted the ‘material’ gold, then masked it and stamped it with cherry blossoms masking the stamp to just get three little parts I needed and masking the lady too. I edged it with dark blue ribbon to give it ‘depth’ so that it does look layered.
The patterns on the Kimono I enhanced then clear embossed them, ditto the hair and the shoes which now look realistically shiny!
The calligraphy symbol is made of paper which I enamelled so it looks like an ivory tile,
I edged one side in dark blue ribbon and edged that with gold, using a gold krylon pen to edge the rest.
I punched a hole in the top and added colour co-ordinating fibres.
It took quite a few hours to make - but was fun to do.
