One Little Tag Craft Challenge #97

A text page was colored with watercolor crayons and activated with water. Once dry, it was stamped with daisy cluster stamp(Hero Arts) using Archival Ink Jet Black. Adhered to a manila tag. Stamped the three birds (Hero Arts) and sentiment (Rubber Soul) on book page using Archival Ink Jet Black. Images were cut out with sizzex die and big shot. Color with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. Squares are adhered to tag. Embellished with paper flowers. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #95

This tag is a collaboration between myself and my friend Becky.  She created the crazy cat using Tim Holtz stamps and die cuts.   

Tear pieces of music paper and adhere to a manila tag.  When dry, color with watercolor crayons and activate with water.  Stamp quote in Archival Ink Jet Black onto book paper.  The quote is from a Tori Amos song "Crucify."  Adhere the quote and the cat on the tag. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #94

The main image was created from a prompt of Cat Held's Mixed Media Morsels and inspired by a friend, Laurelle. Here is the video of Cat Held demoing the technique.  It is surprisingly easy but makes some dramatic paper.  I made about 5 pages of it in one setting.  I am sure it will show up in more of my tags.

Color a manila Tag with with metallic watercolor crayons.  Using a Tim Stencil and a baby wipe rub away the design creating a ghost image.  Create background text paper using the Mixed Media Morsel painted circle technique.  Using a Dylusions mask, cut out image of female from the created paper.  Adhere to tag. Outline with dashes using an india ink marker. Adhere a strip of the created paper along the edge.  Adhere the line from a book.  The line is "She thought of the love in the heathen woman's breast, from an Andersen's Fairy Tale. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #93

Stencil left over green acrylic paint over a manila card using a Tim Holtz stencil.  Let dry.  Using a Dylusions Mask, color over mask on a piece of text using water color crayons.  Outline image with india ink marker.  Stamp quote on old text paper, cut out and outline with an india marker.  Adhere to tag. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #92

Since it was April Fool's day I wanted a tag about fools or being foolish.  This line from a Miranda Lambert song popped into my head.

Lines of acrylic paint were run along a text page and then spread using a foam brush.  Let dry.  Stamp iron star image using Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere to manila tag.  Stamp sprite image (Lost Coast Designs) and stamp quote on old book page using Archival Ink Jet Black.  Adhere to to tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #91

The background piece was made many years ago and has been in my stash for a LONG time. 

Using an old page of text as a base, a design was stenciled using several different colors of ink spray inks. (Since this piece was done so long ago I am not sure what inks were used.). Adhere to manila tag. Stamp phrase and image on tissue paper using Archival Ink Jet Black and adhere to tag. Adhere gems. 

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #90

90 tags in 90 days.  That means commitment.  In the world of 12 step meetings to show dedication to sobriety you are asked to do 90 meetings in 90 days.  When I realized I had completed 90 tags in 90 day I was pleased with myself.  I have found this exercise to be really enjoyable and believe if I can do it for one quarter of the year I can do it for the entire year.  This tag is a combination of several different challenges.  The background was the acrylic paint challenge and the found object challenge.  The main image was part of the text page challenge. 

A manila tag was covered in teal paint and allowed to dry.  Using a lid to a soda bottle, two types of circles were stamped with acrylic paint.  The white solid ones are from the top of the cap and the open purple ones were from the bottom of the cap.  Images (Dylusions Couture Collection) were stamped with Archival Ink Jet Black on text paper from a child's fairy tale book from the 1950s.  Images were colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers and then activated with a water brush.  Gems were adhered to the tag.

One Little Tag Craft Challenge #89

This week challenge for the One Little Tag Craft Challenge is to use book pages.  I often utilize book pages, pieces of sheet music and maps in my creations.  I will use pages in ways I don't usually do.  Such as a the paper folded dahlia on this tag.

A manila tag was sprayed with a gold shade and a green shade of Glimmer Mist.  Smooches ink was dotted on the tag to give the color more depth.  The dahlia was created with instructions for this youtube video by Robin of Njoystampin.  The outer petals were colored with Permapaque markers and a Recollections enamel  embellishment was placed in the center.  The sentiment sticker and and enamel dots were placed on tag. 

Dahlia