Showing posts with label tags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tags. Show all posts

Friday, 1 March 2013

Use Your Words - trio of tags

 I mentioned about a week ago that I was taking Carolyn Dube's workshop - Use Your Words. It is still open for sign up and the videos are available for ever afterwards. And it won't even cost you anything!
More details can be found here.

These tags are from the final lesson in the series of six and I thought it would be fun to do the whole work-in-progress thing. So here it is.


I recently made a batch of tags from some glossy paper that I'd patterned using varying techniques. These three were all done with dye ink and a brayer.


I added a little stamping...


 ...and some stencilled letters as this is all about using your words. I wasn't happy with the terracotta on the blue, so in true Carolyn Dube style, I worked on it a bit more and...


... painted over it with some turquoise acrylic. Liked that much better. Added some patterned paper that I printed from a Photoshop project.


A bit more stamping and a little outlining and correction pen dots.


A bit of oil pastel around the edges and in the gaps, and the all-important words - live, dream, create.

So check out the workshop. Carolyn is a great teacher, very laid back, happy to try something, not like it, and go over it with something else. You'll learn that a blob out of place is not the end of the world but an opportunity to experiment and try something different. 

Monday, 28 January 2013

Tags galore!


I was preparing a journal yesterday afternoon and wanted a tag. Oooops! None left. But I did have a lot of glossy card pieces that I'd decorated a while ago and hadn't got around to using because they were leftovers and not full pages. I hadn't really worked out what I could do with them. I pulled them out and found they were just the right size to make tags from. Problem solved!

Well, of course, once I'd started it was difficult to stop :)

Soon there was a whole pile of tags ready for further decoration. I won't run out for a while...

I also managed to make a leather cover for my travel journal. I'll be able to swap out the books inside as I fill them up. So all-in-all a productive day. How was yours?


Linking to Show and Tell Saturday over at Artists in Blogland (use the button in the bar to see what everyone else is up to)

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Tags


Working on the packs for the ladies who will be joining me on Saturday for the women's retreat. These are the tags that will go on the front of the info packages and will also act as place cards for the table.

Almost done now with the prep. Looking forward to the actual day now.