Tag 3-7 "Believe in Something Absurd" #onelittletag

Tag 3-7 "Believe in Something Absurd" #onelittletag

Hello! Well this has been a challenging week! Watercolour is a challenge for me, but it has inspired me. I am determined to learn more about it and make it a medium that works for me!

I used distress inks in the background, smooshing them on my craft mat, spraying with water and dragging my tag through it. The circles wre traced from a stencil with portfolio water soluable oil pastels which I moved with a waterbrush. I used my new Dina Wakley stamp. Added my quote, some splatters, markers and gel pen and mounted to black card

Tag 3-6 "Tweet" #onelittletag

Tag 3-6 "Tweet" #onelittletag

This was actually a tag I started a couple of weeks ago, wanting to try out my Koi watercolours. I didn't like it and put t aside. I thought I would try and rescue it, since watercolourr is our challenge this week. I pulled this around a bit and liked it a little more, but then went overboard with the flowers and when into another "I don't like" phase. I did a bit of sponging and added my words. Not my fave, but I guess it's okay. If I did it again, I would skip some, or all of the flowers except for the one the bird was sitting on.  Live and learn. I seem to have a bit of a bird theme going on this week, but it is not by design! Just kind of worked out that way.

Tag 3-5 "Break Out" ‪#‎onelittletag

Tag 3-5   "Break Out"   ‪#‎onelittletag‬
This is another tag I started on Monday while playing with spray and stencils. I cut away some bricks and printed out my words. I trimmed them out and sponged them with distress ink. I sponged around the edges of the tag with distress ink and also sponged in the areas that the stencil didn't cover. I could have trimmed it downbut I thought it just added a bit of interest. I punched the corners and mounted to black card.

Tag 3-4 "Relax" #onelittletag

Tag 3-4 "Relax" #onelittletag

I was running a little short on time tonight, so I used this tag that I started the other night. I embossed in black as a resist and wet the background and dropped watercolour into it. The birds on the wires were from ny stash, as was the word. I did some sponging with distress inks, punched the corners and assembled my tag.

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Tag 3-3 :Reflect" #onelittletag

Tag 3-3 "Reflect" ‪#onelittletag

As I mentioned yesterday, after I watercoloured the tag I was working on, I moved on to playing with my sprays and stencils. This is one of those tags. I LOVE how the background turned out on this, I don't know if the photo does it justice. And it was one of those happy accidents. I sprayed using Dylusions, Recolections, Heidi Swapp and Distress Bronze. The stencil lifted and I got a pool of spray on my tag and I tried to sop some of it u...p. You can't really see the original stencil amymore, but I love the effect it created. Then, I sprayed another tag with my TH Brick stencil with the bronze and I used the ink that was left on the stencil , flipped it over and added it to this tag. I added a bit of gold stamping and edging. I have had this fairy i my stash that I coloured and fussy cut eons ago, and she just seemed to suit the background even thogh the colours were similar. I had a quote in mind that suited tis image really well, but I will save it for anither time because I didn't want to cover up any more of the background. "Reflect" is the word that came to mind, so I printed it out, sponged with blueprint sketch distress ink and assembled my tag. I outlined the fairy with my PITT pen and I'm happy

Tag 3-2 "Freedom is a State of Mind" #onelittletag

Tag 3-2 "Freedom is a State of Mind" #onelittletag

Today I was at my art club, so I had a lot of time to play around with watercolours. I have to tell you, I was getting a little discouraged, at first, nothing was working out. I think maybe I should take a watercolour class just to get more familiar with it. After several FAILS, I created this tag using my Prima stamp. I didn't have a reference photo for how to paint the bird but I did the best I could. I added splatters because I love splatters and I added some music notes with my gold ink (i don't know if you can really see that) and edged with gold and distress ink blueprint sketch. When I got home, I added my sentiment (Prima) and the slightest bit of white detail on the feathers with my gel pen. I was so afraid that after all that, I would ruin it with the gel pen, but it worked out okay.  Those little things are actually the most difficult for me with my vision impairment.

  After I finished what I could of this tag at the club, I moved on to y sprays and stencils and had a lot of fun...

Tag 3-1 Lonesome Tree #onelittletag

Tag 3-1 Lonesome Tree   #onelittletag

Wow, it's March already!  Yay!, almost spring!  A new month, a new week and a new challenge. Our challenge this week is to use watercolours, so this is my attempt at some watercolouring. I was playing around with the them, just some inexpensive ones, trying to be nice and loose and not really knowing what I was doing. This is the result.   I added a couple of Penny Black stamps. I don't mind how it turned out. Watercolour is not generally my medium, but that's the great thing about this challenge, it's the perfect venue to reach outside our comfort zones.

Another Month Finished #onelittletag

Another month of tags finished.  I can't believe that I have kept up!  I haven't done a tag every single day (although most days!)  and I often play catch up, but it is definitely keeping me in the creative frame of mind.  That is the whole point.  I have gotten things out from the back of the shelves and given them a little love, have done some experimenting and all-in-all, have been having a good time.

My own personal goal was to do at least seven cards or tags a week.  Not necessarily one a day, and not even necessarily seven different ones, just seven.  This challenge ( One Little Tag Craft Challenge on FB, for anyone new to my blog) has really kept me on track.  Actually, including the bonus tags and the duplicates, I have created 69 tags so far this year!  Wow!

So I would like to thank those of you who have been following along, and invite those of you who have recently viewed my blog to join me on my little tag journey of creativity.  AND my journey into blogging, something I have never done before (being as technically challenged as I am, lol)

Thank you and hope to see you here again soon!  If you like what I have been doing, please share! And if you enjoy making tags or looking at tags, you should check out and join One Little Tag Craft Challenge on FB hosted by Jenny Barnett Rohrs of CraftTestDummies.  It is a great group of talented and supportive and super nice people, and you are welcome to join at any time through the year.  I am enjoying it so much!

Tag 2-29 "Joy" #onelittletag

Tag 2-29 Joy ‪#‎onelittletag‬
Okay, One last Christmas tag to end the month, and no more until the 25th of next month, I promise! Everything from my stash and finishing off the shiny challenge. I used a couple of layered printed Christmas papers for the background. Some die cut elements from my stash. A foiled sentiment that I did the other night. Did some edging with distress ink and gold ink. Assembled and mounted to black card.

Tag 2-28 Christmas Wishes ‪#‎onelittletag

Tag 2-28 Christmas Wishes ‪#‎onelittletag‬
Still have all my Christmas stuff out, so the last couple of tags for February will be added to my Christmas collection. This was another quick one. I used some Recollections holiday shimmer card from a couple of years ago for my background. The deer, cut from black glitter paper were from my stash. The sentiment was foiled on white card and punched out. I added a snowflake punched from glitter paper with a black rhinestone and a few little sparkly embellishments. I punched the corners, mounted to gold foil paper and mounted to black card.