Day 30 - TagFest - Last day of the Challenge

Some double, some single, embossed backgrounds, paper dolls and butterfly wings.

Set of double tags using T!m's paper dolls as the main focus.

Oriental tag using a slide mount.

Created using decorated till rolls.

Vintage tag set with cut outs and doilies.

More tags using up the till rolls. Most pieces are collaged onto the tags.

Today is the last day of the 30 day tag challenge. 

Day 29 Tags

Day 29 tags of the #fabtag30day challenge. Nearly there, one more day to go.

More Oriental Text Book Pages

Remember the book I made a few weeks ago, well I needed to add more pages to it.

I sewed two pages together and then two sets of two together to make the pocket.

This time I decided on shades of red with black borders.

And some gold and black stamping. I interweaved them with the blue ones.

Masterboard

Created this masterboard on the back of a pizza box using scraps and leftovers.

Once dried I cut them into tag size pieces and all I had left was the slither on the right.

Pocket Text Pages Oriental Book

My WIP is finished for now, but can easily be added to at a later date if needed.

No real changes to the inside pages.

Apart from the addition of another charm.

And holes punched in the pages.

And red ribbon added through the holes.

To act as a binding.

Another image added to this page.

And the back page where you can just see the ribbons are tied.

Each of the pages has a top pocket with a tag in.

A view from the top.

And to show it stands up and reveal the tied ribbon at the front which can be expanded if I decide to add more pages at a later date.

I haven't shown the tags as you've already seen them all before.

A WIP - oriental text book pages

Machine stitched two sheets of text book paper together.

Machine stitched two of the sets of paper together to form a pouch.

Painted the pages in various shades of blue.

Edged each set of pages in gold.

Added random stamping to each page using black stazon.

Decorated the pages with anything Oriental, Asian, Japanese and Indian related.

Added charms and german scrap.

Back page (I think anyway).

Will be back when I've done a bit more.

Faux Ticket Strip

A faux ticket strip made from a strip of cardboard and text book paper.

Close up of the last two tickets.

Close up of the next two tickets.

Close up of the first two tickets.

A quick and easy make whilst 'virtually' being in a training session.

AT Coins

Chris sent me a stack of these ages ago and today I had a play but I'm not convinced they are for me. I think I will stick to the rectangular AT Cards in future.  

Stencil Transfers

I took a piece of A4 card and using PVA glue pasted on various pieces of paper including book, tissue and map and also added some washi and tissue tape to the mix.

I did exactly the same with this piece but coloured the background first.

Once dry, I added various colours of decoart premium acrylic paint. The right hand side ended up more green than what I wanted it so I added a watered down layer of white.

And this one I left bright.

I added some marks in silver and gold.

To both of the pieces. I then gave them both a coat of matte medium to seal them.

I printed out a background using my cheapo inkjet printer. Remember if you are using words, they need to be the wrong way round for this step.

Next I placed the stencils were I wanted them on the background and used a bit of masking tape to hold them in place.

For the music stencil I coloured in the image using a black sharpie pen.

And for Eve I used black decoart modelling paste.

Once they were completely dry I took a couple of photocopies, again using my cheap inkjet printer.

Next I completely covered both of the images with decoart tinting base.

In total, I did three coats of the tinting base and once dry, one coat of the matte medium and again left it to completely dry.

I gave the coloured base another coat of matte medium, and whilst it was still wet I placed the photocopy on the top.

This is the photocopy placed on the top of the coloured background.

To ensure it was totally stuck down I used a brayer.

Then I left them overnight to dry.

I dampened them slightly with warm water and a sponge.

And started to gently rub away the top layer of paper.

And the second one. Don't get paper too wet and don't rub too hard or you will rub the transfer away.

All the paper has been removed from each piece.

Once dry, I gave each one a coat of decoart ultra matte varnish which makes the colours pop.

Next I cut them to size.

And mounted them onto black card.

They look completely different with different coloured backgrounds.

I really enjoyed making these and I know some of you will be thinking, why didn't you just stencil the image straight onto the backgrounds, but I wanted to show how they could be used in a different way.