Tag Tuesday -- Garden Party

Lots of ideas for the theme on Tag Tuesday, but with very limited time, I have made a very quick one. I found this picture of a little girl, giving a party for her dog and little doll. I have stamped some trees behind them, and placed flowers in the front of the scene. The background is coloured with distress inks. The flowers in the foreground are a bit of a mess, so not happy with those.

Every Inchie Monday -- Maroon

Maroon is the word this week on Every Inchie Monday. There is the colour maroon, or you can maroon someone on a desert island, so I went with both of them. For the painted one I used Derwent intense crayons.

Tag Tuesday -- Ephemera

On Tag Tuesday, the theme is ephemera ( short lived--transitory), so I hunted out some old tickets, stamps, cigar label, etc. I placed the tag on a piece of packing which I had coloured slightly, and embossed with some verdigris embossing powder. The main tag is distress inks, stamped with a script stamp. I also added some old buttons to finish it off.

Every Inchie Monday -- Maid

This week on Every Inchie Monday it's 'Maid'. The only thing I could think of, apart from drawing a whole maid was to do the apron. The sewn one is in a fine cotton, and is an older style. The drawn one is a modern saucy one.

Artful Times -- Made on wood

My daughter wanted two boxes decorated for her birthday, Karen supplied the wooden boxes and asked for one of them to be Autumn/leaf style colours and the other one green. By the time I managed to do them I had forgotten the second colour. The first one was no problem, but the second one, my husband (no artist) suggested I did it in the colours of her newly decorated cinema room. White, Black and red, GULP, I'm not happy working in those colours. These boxes fitted in well with the theme on Artful Times.
I painted both  with gesso, and set about painting the first one with Fresco paints. I then applied some texture paste, and stamped into it with leaf stamps. I then added metal leaves, that I embossed, and coloured with alcohol inks. I stamped some sayings on the smooth bits. The camera photo has come out  a lot paler than the actual box.

 For this one, I painted it white, and used texture paste through a stencil for some texture. I used paint through stencils as well. I added some cogs in red and black metal, and stamped some of the Paperartsy time sayings on to finish it off.

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Tag Tuesday -- Tag on tag

For the theme of tag on tag for Tag Tuesday, I have made two sea tags. They both have distress ink backgrounds, and the smaller one a layer of crumpled tissue paper. The seaweed is all stamped, and the fish and seahorses, stamped on separate card, and coloured with watercolour crayons.  The top tag fits behind the paper clay shells at the bottom.

Every Inchie Monday -- Lavender

On Every Inchie Monday the word is Lavender.
For the sewn one I made a lavender bag from very fine white fabric, and painted a spray of lavender on the front. I put a very small amount of dried lavender in and stitched the top, with some ribbon added to finish it off.
The card one is simply a painted version.