A quick tag made after work yesterday (my first day back in after the 'flu bug). It was a full day, but I still wanted to make some time to craft and relax. This is my second entry to the Anything Goes - Include Some Lime Green challenge over on Tag Tuesday.
The background was created on a piece of mixed media card using Pixie Powders in Aqua Lagoon, Midnight Blue, Peacock Green and Golden Mint. Once dry, the piece was added to a #8 manilla tag, trimmed and the hole punched through at the top of the tag.
The large dragonfly (the fancy die from the Dragon Delights set by Spellbinders) was cut from black card and the tiny dragonfly which was one of the dies from the Crafter's Companion Advent calender sent out to Platinum customers in 2016, was cut twice. As the 2017 advent calendar was waiting for me when I got in from work yesterday, I thought it rather apt to use a die from the previous year's.
The lime green was added by colouring through all the apertures on the wings using a Faber Castell Big Brush marker in Light Green.
Finally, three sentiments from the Small Talk sticker set by Tim Holtz completed the tag.
The prompt for week 48 of Art Journal Prompts is 'Circles'; I decided to go with an abstract response.
First of all apologies for not visiting many of you last week. I woke up with a sore throat on Friday morning and by Friday evening had no voice, a nasty cough, was aching all over and had zero energy. It was a miracle that I managed to raid the bit box for long enough to keep up my daily blog. Sunday's was quick, as it was my 500th post and I set up another tag give away. If you'd like a chance to win, just go to the post (HERE) and say which tag you'd like. I spent all weekend and Monday in bed and was just about starting to feel human yesterday. Eva came over for some crafting in the morning, but the afternoon was spent at a MFL curriculum leaders get together for all the local middle schools.
Anyway; on with the desk sharing, which is the whole purpose of my Wednesday posts. For further details, visit Julia at the Stamping Ground who is chief desker!
My side of the desk is staged, showing all the bits and pieces at my disposal to make the tag in the centre (for details see HERE).
On the other side of the desk, Eva was working on a birthday card for her Hubby's forthcoming birthday, using her new Groovi plates (neither of us could resist the Gray Day Sale on the Claritystamp website at the weekend).
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I'm still feeling lousy and not up to any major projects, however I didn't want to miss a blog post. I therefore used a page background that was already created, together with some pre made bits and pieces to put together a journal page; it took all of 10 minutes, but I liked the finished look before crawling back into bed.
Just over two years ago I started this blog to share my art work and creative exploits. This is my 500th post and I've decided to have a give away competition to celebrate. In the picture you can see many of the tags that I've created over the last couple of months. To win one, just comment on this blog post which tag you'd like me to send you. In a week's time I'll announce the winner.
I am not feeling well today, hence the late blog post (for me). I went straight to bed last night instead of creating and preparing today's blog post. Instead, I made this quick tag this morning with left overs from yesterday's journal page (see HERE). I am entering it in the That's Crafty fortnightly challenge: Green with envy.
The background was created on a piece of mixed media card using Pixie Powders in Aqua Lagoon, Midnight Blue, Peacock Green and Golden Mint. Once dry, the piece was added to a #8 manilla tag, trimmed and the hole punched through at the top of the tag.
The large dragonfly (the fancy die from the Dragon Delights set by Spellbinders) was cut from black card and the tiny dragonfly which was one of the dies from the Crafter's Companion Advent calender sent out to Platinum customers in 2016, was cut twice. As the 2017 advent calendar was waiting for me when I got in from work yesterday, I thought it rather apt to use a die from the previous year's.
The lime green was added by colouring through all the apertures on the wings using a Faber Castell Big Brush marker in Light Green.
Finally, three sentiments from the Small Talk sticker set by Tim Holtz completed the tag.
