Some grungy fun....

Hello friends and visitors, hope the new year is going well for you so far!
My mojo has been pretty low recently, so I thought it was time for just some play time and this was the result:

This started with a manila tag. My lovely blog friend Donna gifted me loads of these (thank you Donna)!!

It was a mop up tag and had some colour on it already. I added some random strips of book paper.

Covered it with a mix of gesso and crackle paste. As I was working on another tag at the same time, some splats of ink landed on it too....

While doing the final stages of the drying process with my heatgun, lovely bubbles started to appear, - all good for this type of project.

A mix of Decoart Media paints and various sprays added colour, the art stones and threads that are all the rage at the moment added more texture.

The sentiment is also a 7 Dots Studio label.

The vintage image is from a 7 Dots Studios Cold Country collection. I edged it with Stampendous Aged Silver EP.

The sentiment is also from the 7Dots studio Cold Country collection

I trimmed the top of the tag, mounted it onto a mini canvas and that was pretty much it.

Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey

Hello everyone, here we are at the end of September, it's the fifth Friday of the month and that means it's Tag Friday over at A Vintage Journey. Here is the tag I put together:

It all started with a size 10 tag that I covered with some of my own made background papers. As I did these as part of an online course, I can't really reveal how I did it. but if you are interested you can find out more about the course here.

To add more interest to the background, I cut down another piece of the paper and frayed the edges.

I am trying to get into the mood for Halloween, so decided to use this quirky stamp by Teesha Moore as my focal image

She's not really a witch of course, I just love her pointy hat. I coloured her with Inktense Pencils.

Next I gathered some embellishments, left over from previous projects and then all I had to do was put it all together. 

Below a few close ups:

I adhered everything with foam tape and glue dots for some more depth and dimension.

Shadows (drawn with a Stabilo All pencil) also help to make the focal image pop a bit more.

I twisted some rusty wire around the rusted heart. It's a bit large for the tag but I tried a smaller one and that looked even worse, so in the end I stuck with the big one. I do like how the wire stamp (by Gaby Polacco), kind of links to the wire on the heart....

Well, that's it for today, thanks for your visit and make sure to check out the amazing tags my teamies have created, - plenty of inspiration there! All you need to do is clICk HERE

Have a lovely weekend everyone, hope you get some creative time!

xxx