Tag Tuesday Album

 

I made an album to keep my Tag Tuesday tags in. I used a plain album , found in Paperchase, and coloured the background with Koh-i-Nor watercolours. Then I added cut out letters from a craft sheet.

Tag Tuesday-Valentine's Day

The theme for this week's Tag Tuesday is Valentine's Day. Here is my tag, which is inspired by Victorian Valentine's cards. I seem to be looking at the Victorian age quite a lot recently. I think it is because I like the lace and the long dresses!

This is how it started out. The images are clip art from Graphics Fairy. I took the wild rose wreath as the base.This was topped with vintage lace, braid and buttons from my stash. The Valentine's hearts were placed in the corners  and  it was finished off with a lilac ribbon.

Hearts

The theme for this week's Tag Tuesday is Hearts, so I am happy to post photos of the hearts in my new purchases of Boleslawa pottery from Poland. You may remember me posting about my dresser, which displays my collection, which started when we lived in Warsaw, 20 years ago. I was delighted to find these new additions in HomeSense today. All those years ago, I could never have believed so much of Poland has come to this country!

Tag Tuesday Hearts

The theme for this weeks Tag Tuesday is Hearts. I used cardboard hearts and doodled on them, then filled a large heart with them. The inspiration for this tag came from Christina Perri's song  Jar of Hearts. I would have liked to make a jar of hearts, but this is my version of it, a heart full of hearts!

Snow

We had a good fall of snow overnight, which started in the evening and just kept on. It is melting now, so not serious snow. I just had to get out with my camera before it all vanished! The river was as busy as usual, both human and wildlife. In the garden  some lovely animal tracks, cat and fox.

Design to Stitch course

I have signed up for Shelagh Folgate's new course Design to Stitch.  http://designtostitch.blogspot.com
I really enjoyed Shelagh's Smashee course, which I was on last year and learned so much.

Tag Tuesday Lace

The theme for this week's Tag Tuesday is Lace. You can find it on  www.tagtuesday.blogspot.com

For my lace tag I decided to do some rubbings of broderie anglaise. I experimented with a variety of drawing medium:- wax crayon, graphite sticks, charcoal, pencil, Markal paint sticks, oil and chalk pastel and chalk. As the pencil worked the best, I then tried with coloured pencils, which produced the effect I wanted. I did a rubbing onto fine tissue paper, then printed it off onto ordinary typing paper, and used this to make a design of a lace fan.

 Close up of lace rubbing with coloured pencil

Part of my lace collection