A Tag Fest

Afternoon lovely Bloggers. I hope your weekend is going better than the weather. What a dismal, wet day it is here. Still, we've made the most of it by going to look at bathrooms this morning. I'm dreading all the mess of having it done but excited at what it'll look like when it's finished. The only problem is I love the tiles we have on at the minute, little blue mosaic ones and we're having trouble finding something the same. The ones these days are much darker. Hubby says I'll just have to accept that I can't have the same. When do us ladies ever accept we can't have anything!! I shall keep looking!!

Anyway, on to crafty matters. I had a lovely afternoon making tags yesterday for no other reason than I love doing them. It then occurred to me in bed later that they'll fit into two of my favourite challenges this week so here goes.


The first one is for Frankie's Tag It On challenge of beads and jewellery this week. All the stamps are from the EI Patchwork Butterflies plate, apart from the background dots that were just some I had in my box.

The background is peeled paint and worn lipstick DI applied with cut n dry and then spritzed with water and dabbed off to lighten the colour. I then stamped with the same colours and the sentiment is done with Crimson Brilliance and clear embossed.


The little butterfly was stamped onto pink vellum and cut out and painted with cosmic shimmer.

I then made some paper beads and mixed them with seed beads before attaching them to the Nestie, which is one of the lovely new shapes, Labels 14.

I'm going to enter the second tag into The Stampman's challenge this fortnight which is Distress!!


I absolutely love using Vintage Photo and Dusty Concord DI together and then painting over the top with Cosmic Shimmer pearlescent white watercolour paint. You get the most amazing effect and the photo doesn't really do it justice.

I over stamped again with stamps from the Patchwork Butterfly set, the last ones being stamped in Archival black and clear embossed, as were the sentiments which were from a Creative Expressions swirls set.

I made the tissue paper flower by just cutting rough circles and attaching them with a brad and then scrunching it all up. A few jewels were added for a bit of bling.

I've got a real taste for tags now so I'm off to see what else appears while the old creative juices are flowing.

Thanks for stopping by.