Two Tags for Joy!

Darcy has been creating some truly amazing projects at Paper Artsy this week. Click here and prepare to be astounded and inspired! I've loved every one and I just wish I could soar to the heights and meet every single challenge! But with the kitchen makeover there's neither the time nor the space! Never mind, I made some Washi tape, which I'm really pleased with - it's on the right of this journal page!

  And, with all the chaos at home, I decided to spend a couple of hours just enjoying myself and to create a couple of playful tags inspired by the collage, pop-up people from Darcy's journal spread .

I took a handful of Paper Artsy stamped images that I had left over from other projects and some scraps of paper from a Tim Holtz pad of background paper I'd almost used up and stamped some more Paper Artsy Vintage and Lynne Perrella images on these scraps. I had two sheets of cardboard packaging that looked as if it might distress well. I die-cut two tags from this. I had so little time and not much space so I didn't take any step by step pictures, but I simply sponged my card with French Roast , Bora Bora, Butternut and South Pacific. I tore parts of the tags to expose the corrugated under-layer and applied Treasure Gold White Fire to these. I really liked this effect.

 I then stamped with Butternut Fresco and South Pacific, using a script stamp. Using a Tim Holtz die, I made a top and bottom for my tags that gave them the look of an ancient column, as the corrugated card had reminded me of this.

Now for the fun of creating my own characters! This lady's feet are not feet at all - they are part of the background of an Ink and the Dog 'Wings' stamp, but the shapes just said 'feet' to me! Her hand is the tip of a Tim Holtz tattered pine-cone sprig of foliage! I can't tell you the fun I had creating these in my little corner cut off for a bit from Kitchen muddle!

I added gems, gold wings and trim, some details and a sentiment edged with UTEE gold and I felt that my ladies were a couple of ancient deities or mythological creatures!

 Did she hatch from that egg?

 Thanks Darcy, for inspiring such a fun project! And, of course, for giving me lots of inspiration for the future!