Altered tags, the next installments

Hi everyone, hope you are having a good weekend. A few days ago I posted an altered Crafty Individuals tag. A pack of 5 of these were given to me on commission to alter them and make them into a tag book.
They are great fun to do, although at times also a bit tricky, because one side has beautiful printing on them, and it's not so easy to try and enhance them without spoiling the beautiful design that's there already. The back of the tag is quite plain, so there, there is plenty of space to play.
Anyway here are my next lot of attempts.

Front

Back

Front

front detail

Back

back detail

Front. Here I drew on and around the lady that was on the original design to emphasize her more

Back

detail

Only one more and the covers to do now....

Friday Freebie tags

I had some unexpected free time on my hands and did not feel like getting inky, so played with some pixels instead. Here is the result. Like usual, many thanks to the wonderful Graphics Fairy and her endless resources of free images and also some other kind souls whose images I have downloaded over the years.

Like always you may take these tags for your own personal use. They are quite dark, I guess because it was such a cold and dark day here again.

Spellbinders Project for June

Hi everyone. Today is the day when it is my turn to show a project on the Spellbinders blog. Even though I have done it a few times now, it is still quite a big deal for me. I would absolutely love it if you show your support by leaving me a comment there. All you need to do is click here

here is a sneak peek and thank you!!

Altered tag

I have not posted for ages as I have been incredibly busy, both at work and with creating and scheduling projects for my various design teams. As I am away for most of July and had to schedule my July posts too well and create the projects of course. But today I finally had some time to play. I was sent a pack of 5 large decorated tags by Crafty Individuals. Someone has asked me to alter them for her and make them into a tag book. At least that's what I decided I would do with them. Here is the first one, both the front and the back:

 This side had a beautifully printed background already, all I did was add an image, some flowers and lace, and a bit of stamping. The little butterflies which were stamped also.

 The back was really plain, so here I created the background pretty much completely.

First Post for the Artistic Stamper

Today is the day that my first project will go up for the Artistic Stamper, whose Design Team I was lucky enough to become a member of.

I decided to make a hanger, using the stamps for lots of texture. You can find full detail on the DT blog here

Vintage French mini

Finally managed to almost complete the vintage french mini I have been working on for ages. I have done the cover now and some more big tags. (just a few little tags to go now)

Cover

cover detail

cover detail

tag

tag

tag

tag

For those of you who enjoy this sort of things, I have also made a little video where you can see all of the pages and tags.

Freebie Time

Hello everyone, here is your Friday freebie for this week.
As I am a teacher of adult students I am going to be extremely busy over the next couple of weeks with graduations etc and will be away from my computer for most of July, so this will be the last Friday Freebee for a while, sorry. I am also getting a bit stale and keep coming up with the same sort of thing, so hopefully come the middle of August I will be back with some fresh ideas. Thank you for all your kind comments and welcome to all my new followers. You are all very much appreciated!!!

tags etc

6 x 6 paper

6 x 6 paper

Vintage French mini (Second Instalment

Her is the second installment of my vintage French mini. You can see the first instalment here

Page with little waterfal cards

waterfall cards

close up

close up

Page with decorative pocket

Another page with large pocket

page with tag tucked in

showing page and tag separately

page with side pocket and small tag

tag

page with large decorative pocket

mini accordion book that will fit in one of the pockets

cover of accordion book

back of accordion book

Now there is only the cover to do and a number of bigger tags to fit in various top and side pockets.
I have used a whole variety of papers from different collections but as they are all totally altered anyway, it does not really matter.

Final project for Snazzys using Pan Pastels

Here is a picture for my final project for Snazzys using the Pan Pastels. A bit of a change to the usual cards etc. To see the full project description please head over to the Design Team Blog

Friday Freebee

Well here we are, June already, can you believe it. I can't, specially not if I look out of the window..... nothing but rain yet again, and certainly here in the Northern hemisphere June is meant to mean Summer..... Ah well, hopefully these little tags will bring you a little "sunshine" where ever you are.....

Just a little word of warning, some of the images used here came from Pinterest, they were vintage soap labels, but I don't know their original source and cannot absolutely guarantee copyright issues. Obviously personal use only in any case.

Snazzys DT project 2 Pan Pastels

Here is a little peep at my second post for Snazzys, again using the wonderful Pan Pastels, both for stamping and colouring.

For full details head over to the Design Team Blog. This will also be your last chance to win a set of three of these wonderful pastels by leaving a comment on the first project this month.

Second Commission Vintage mini

I was lucky enough to have another commission for one of my vintage style minis. This one is to be in a French style, as the lady who commissioned it loves France. Beware, photo rich post.....

little tag for inside the envelope on page above

Back of tag, this is a Crafty Individuals stamp which I coloured with Distress markers and inks

 I am having so much fun creating this as she has given me complete creative freedom. Here is a peep at the first few pages and some of the tags. I'll be posting more over the next few days/weeks. There will be loads of tags and little interactive bits......

Page without tag

page with tag

just the tag

page with mini envelope

Front of little double tag inside envelope

inside of little double tag

Sorry for all the detailed descriptions etc, this is so that the lady who has it on order can see it progress....

May Snazzys Project Pan Pastels

This month we have been featuring Pan Pastels over at Snazzys. Here is the first of three projects I will be showing this week. A desktop holder for my pens.

To see the full project, please head over to The Design Team Blog and if you leave a comment on the first post this month you are even in with a chance to win three of the pastels!!