August 12 Tags of 2015

I was drawn to the tag that Tim Holtz made for the 12 Tags of August and thought I'd give it a whirl. I tend to look at tutorials as a suggestion rather than a must do, and this is what I came up with.

With all the issues of copyright infringements, I went to Morguefiles for the silhouette. The background is an old book page. I colored twine with the same Distress Inks that I used for the background. And, in case you can't read the Small Talk Stickers, it says "Delight in magical stuff". Magic stuff always lives in books. Do go to Tim's site and see what he, and others, did with this tutorial (linked above).

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Life Book Week One and Two

Wow! What a start to the new year! I got a little carried away with what I thought I could do, but I am going to push ahead anyway. The first week at Life Book has been a real challenge. I've never really done anything quite like this, but it was just so much fun and I learned so much from Tam. What a wonderful teacher she is.

First, I completed The Beacon of Light, for week one by Tamara Laporte. I used acrylics, stamps, water soluble crayons, markers, collage, ink pads, and white paint pens.

Then, I did Playing Tag with Roben-Marie Smith for Week 2 of Life Book 2015. These tags were dunked in Dylusion sprays first and I added some silver stamping to the one on the right and both got some white gel pen "sewing" on the edges. Both feature some of my other art. One is a watercolor leaf and the other is a piece of gelli printing that I did. Both got some boucle yarn toppers.

It's not too late to join us on this incredible journey!