and for some reason

I seem to have attracted another Tag so ummm yeah, here ya go

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Inspired

Again by a post on PaperArtsy, this time by Julie Ann Lee. Loved her tag with a Face and Key and little bits of 3D’age. She also did the cutest little suitcase / box.

Any way here is my Tag’age as inspired by Julie

The tiny face is about the size of a dime, it is paper clay I pushed in a “push” mold. I painted it – OMGeee can I say tiny {crazy}. The Key is a brad and I have some store bought ephemera {I just love clearance of a clearance} with that “clearance” thing said I am determined NOT to buy stuffs until I use up most of what I already have {unless I find clearance of a clearance}

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Tell me

how y’all Can’t paint a face – Can’t draw a face! !um I bet cya can!

This is a follow up to Face #4 (on the tag) I did for a challenge over on PaperArtsy. The guest Artist was Clare Lloyd and she shared a neat and I found VERY FUN way to do Whimsy Faces. And I, yes I Double Dog Dare ya to go take a look at her “Anybody”method!!!

Here is my beginnings

And here are my finished faces {#7 & 8} They are happily planted on Tags.

They are done the same way, from the exact same template (self-made stencil) Yet they look fairly different. This was accomplished by a few minor changes in the mouth, eyes and position / angle of the head. I have kept the positive negative cut out portion of the neck/shoulders and head. I can use them to trace out tops and maybe hats {if I were to get funky with it}

Again this IS a VERY Fun and Easy Easy way to get a finished face. Thanks Clare for sharing this tech and thanks PaperArtsy for having her over.

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#'s 3 - 4 - 5

of the 29Faces Challenge including one on a Tag, but you can see that already

#three

#four - is a Tag Inspired by Clare Lloyd in this weeks challenge at PaperArtsy and besides sometimes Tags need a face.

#5

so far, with the tag as the exception, these are draw on 4 1/2 x 6" watercolor paper. I have used a Combo Circle template by Staedtler for the beginnings of their bodies and heads. I wanted them fairly uniform. 

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Gelli 'ing and Carve 'ing

Yep I got that stamp carving bug and did a couple of ‘em. Only showing y’all one here {well I need to save something for surprise} I call her The Feminine. She was inspired by a little poem I wrote last month, by the same name even. And because I got my Gelli on recently I had an idea to combine them. . . not for a card or a journal in this case but for Tag’age. Like I said in my last post here, I was able to get some gelli prints pulled on card stock. After making 13 greeting cards I thought - humm I have these loverly doubled sided pulls and that’s where the Tags come in.

I used the top off of a ToGo food box to mark the Gelli Plate.

{makes me happy la la la}

I pulled my prints on regular card stock 8 ½ x 11”. I cut them in half lengthwise, trimmed the edges so they measure 3 ½”. Well I have to have them fit in regular letter size envelopes ya know. I folded the bottom up for the same reason. Used my fancy smanchy hand carved stamp, cut around her, glued her to a bit of colored card stock before gluing her on the tag. Printed out my poem and glued that inside. Of course I added ribbon’age. The back has a short greeting and my info, sort of like you would put on an ATC. . .

Hummmm ATCs well maybe some another time

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