Tag - January - Children

It was a cold and very frosty day today - which reflects in my tag theme.

I scrunched up a tag so that it was all creased then flattened it out, then tore it.

Using water based inks I made it look vintage.

Stamped Victorian wording in blue for the background and embossed with distressed blue powder which gives it a matt distressed look.

This is a really touchy feeling tage as it is all textured with embossing. The image was another I printed off from my collection and coloured and added snow details with embossed matt white.

The ribbons, wool, and chiffon threaded through the top picks out the different shades used on the tag.

Tag - January - Childhood Innocence

I painted the tag pale pink, then dripped some watery ink on top to give it a nice texture and random pattern.

I printed off one of my Victorian photos, and highlighted the roses and bow, then embossed some areas with clear embossing powder so that parts of it just catch the light.

The butterfly is an image from crafty individuals which I cut out as I didn't want all the picture. I then dipped the butterfly into enamel and it now shines wonderfully. It is sitting on top as apposed to being clued down flat.

I edged the image and the tag with pink ink and added some wool threads and finished off with a few tiny beads in the bottom left corner.

Brown and black ATC swap challenge - new photos

This is a stamp I received as a gift - well part of the stamp it is twice this width.






I have tried to make it look 'aged' - it brought back memories of Ration Books - yes, as a child I had my own!

Black and brown ATC swap challenge - Bathers

These vintage images are mounted - the first on hand painted paper - and the second on pre-printed paper.

I did my 'usual' and painted the images with water colours and chalks. I then stamped and embossed with distressed powder - the flower arch over their heads - and embossed their boots too.

Black and white book marks for a swap

This afternoon I made three black and white bookmarks for a swap running on CM&P forum



They are on A4 size card - cut width ways - and all slightly different.

I laminated them all to keep them clean - and added black and white knitting wool which has silver threads too so they look nice and sparkly




Here is a scan of just one of them - I couldn't resist adding a bit of pink blusher to their bottoms!

Altered Art CD

This is a CD which I altered for a swap.

Method

I glued some thick card onto the CD, then added thick white paper (both cut to size).

I painted the backing paper - several times - and added bronze acrylic here and there. The left hand side looks darker in the photo as you can't define the copper in it.

I stamped on the Geisha and then painted the flowers and foliage and highlights.

Then I stamped some border flowers and foliage and painted those.

Finally I melted several layers of enamel then stamped into it to make the oriental fish images; painted over it with copper paint - wiped some off - painted it with black water colour - swiped that with kitchen paper - to leave an 'aged' impression with definition of two fish - one of which is a skeleton.



The colours are richer in daylight - the flash seems to have made it all look paler

Orange and black themed ATC

This is a stamped Kodomo image on orange card which has been softened with orange chalks.

The actual image was stamped in black then embossed. I painted all the flowers orange, and highlight some of the petals with orange copper metallic paint. The butterflies were painted with the metallic paint too. All the other colouring is with pastels.

I rather liked the urn on this stamp - which is supported by rabbits - which too have been highlighted, along with the urn, in the metallic copper which I think looks really pretty in daylight.

It has all been edged with black - and again for some reason the edges have not been scanned in by the machine! But in real life it looks like a perfectly centred picture in a black frame

I hope the recipient likes it.