Tag Tuesday-Valentine

The theme for our tag this week on Tag Tuesday is Valentine.

We are all having such fun with our tags!

I enjoy coming up with an idea for a theme, then

playing around with different techniques and producing

a piece of finished work, but I also enjoy seeing everyone

else's tags in the group, with their individual ideas and techniques.

For my Valentine tag I have used traditional hearts,

but have avoided too much pink! I seem to remember

making one last time we did Valentine's which was totally pink!

Here I have added hearts stamped with a wood block to a textured

background, made by printing through a stencil with gesso.

I added some lace, both real and stamped, and washi tape hearts.

Happy Valentine's Day to you all!

Hearts for Valentine's Day

Tag Tuesday-Hearts

Today the theme on Tag Tuesday is Hearts.

For my Hearts theme, I have made a  heart in the style of a Victorian valentine. I like the romantic cards they produced.They used layers of fabric scraps, paper lace, fringing, feathers, tinsel, glitter and other ephemera  for their cards, and included images of flowers, figures and animals, and some pieces of text.

For my tag, I have layered coloured papers and lace (I couldn't find any paper lace, so the one on the left is cotton lace, the one on the right is plastic). I added butterflies, paper flowers (hand coloured) and some pressed  wild roses. The text says  "Give me Thine Heart", and it is finished off with a pink ribbon, and photographed on a heart plate. I was rather shocked at how pink and sugary sweet the finished heart was, but putting it on the plate has softened it. I don't normally make such pink things!