Tag Tuesday - Cooking

This week's theme for Tag Tuesday is: Cooking. I am not a very keen cook myself but I love good, natural and tasty food (lol) .... and this young Lady seems to love to do the cooking!

the tag shapes are cut with Sizzix dies and paper from Papermania

some machine-stitching is added to the second layer

the image is from Pollycraft coloured with Copics

embellishments are a fork charm, some ribbon and stamping (stamp: Hero Arts)

 

Thank you for stopping by! Petra. x

Lunagirl - Vintage Menagerie

The new challenge at Lunagirl Moonbeams is all about animals: Vintage Menagerie. For my project as focal point I used a giraffe image from from Lunagirl Moonbeams Animals at the Zoo digital collage sheet

I always loved giraffes, they look so elegant, almost majestic. 

I combined the image with some freewild animal print  magazine paper

and embellished the tag with some button, twine and a little label.

I hope you can join us for the challenge! Petra.

Linked to: Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday - Insects

 Spring is almost in the air with Spring-like temperatures, the birds looking for suitable nests and the first bees humming around early flowers. And with the weather being a bit calmer it is such a nice feel. The theme over at Tag Tuesday is so very fitting this week: insects. I choose just one insect, my very favourite one: a butterfly

 

 I covered the basic tag with crinkled sewing pattern tissue paper

 

coloured it with various chalks and ribbed off the tissue paper around the basic tag. 

  

 

I added some gesso to the middle of the tag, spread some watercolour paint on the craftmat and layed

the tag onto the paint. 

 

The butterfly and the sentiment (both Darkroom Doors stamps) were stamped with blue acrylic paint, the lines were created with acrylic paint using atracing wheel. 

 

As embellishments I added some little blings, some wooden beads and a little chiffon ribbon.

Enjoy your Tuesday, Petra.

Cheerful Monday #47 - You melt my heart

... with her big eyes and cute little wings - Flora Fae from Stitchy Bear Digital Outlet

image coloured with colouring pencils, wings cut from Vellum

Papermania paper, doily

velvet ribbon, half pearls and some bling flowers

stamped sentiment (Elzybells) 

 

There is still time to play and to join in with Vicki's challenge: Love/Valentine. And, to see the wonderful projects from the DT. See you there, Petra.

 

Linked to: Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday - Shelters and Homes

Shelters/Homes is the current theme over at Tag Tuesday. Well, my home is my shelter, it feels like a safe haven and a place where I can rest. I am also so lucky to have a wonderful garden to enjoy nature. It always feel wonderful to return home after work, after a holiday .....

  

The base for the tag is watercoloured card which was left from some other projects last year. 

The house, flowers and sentiment are stamped with PaperArtsy stamps and coloured with Copics.

To embellish the tag I just added some ribbon from my ribbon-leftover-box.

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... and the fun thing is, No 62 is my real house number (BIG SMILE)

Thank you for stopping by, Petra.

 

Also linked to:  Order of the Opus Gluei - Leftovers

Tag Along - Home Sweet Home

Tag Tuesday - Winter Landscape

What a Winter is has been so far, very very wet and windy and very warm. So warm that the birds have already started to twitter in the morning and all the Spring bulbs decided it is time to show their first leaves! Oh dear ....
This is the first tag I created for Tag Tuesday: Winter Landscape this year using one of my photos from last year's winter as focal point. I just love the texture of the snow crystals and the way they sit on the seed head

The tag is cut from Karftcard, dry-embossed and slightly inked. the photo is layered on musical note paper (Kaisercraft) and BazillBasics card. To adorn the tag I added some twine, vellum snowflake and a little wooden heart.

Stay safe and warm wherever you are, Petra.

 

Also linked to: The Shabby Tea Room challenge

Tag Tuesday - Christmas Tag Swap

It was so exciting to take again part in Carolyn's Christmas Tag swap. I so enjoyed creating the tags and was so thrilled when my tags tags arrived. It was all bundled with gorgeous yarn

After careful unwrapping I found the most stunning tags, all so very different

 from Carolyn (left) and Laurie (right)

 

from Valerie (left) and Laura (right)        from Liz

The Ladies have outdone themselves and I cannot say thank you enough for this wonderful early Christmas present. And here are the ones I created

 on the left: Pion paper, stamps from Crafty Individuals and Paper Artsy, lace, ribbon and half-pearls

on the right: image from Lunagirl Moonbeams, stamped and heat embossed background, charms, half-pearls, stamped transparency flowers (Sizzix) and stamped sentiment (Elzybells)

on the left: patterned paper layered, snowman from colouring pages coloured with colouring pencils and Copics, ribbon, sparkly star and little button

on the right: patterned paper, punched out little stars, big stamped star from Jofy, little bell and image from Sweet'n'Sassy

Have a lovely week, Petra.

Cheerful Monday #33 - Shiny Boot

Gosh, I only noticed now that it has been 8 days since my last post! Time just went by with finishing my major cleaning up session and preparing for four visitors from Germany. They have arrived (yippeeehhh) and it is so lovely to have them here (BIG SMILE). So now let me do some catching up on my posts. This is for Vicki's second stencil challenge week using the same stencil from StencilGirl as last week. This stencil is so versatile

  

 I used distress inks and misted the whole tag with Perfect Pearls. The tag is layered with a paper doily and a Sizzix diecut frame coloured with Copics and covered with Glossy Accents.

 

I stamped the boot (stamp: Get Stamping 4), coloured it with distress inks,

cut it out, added Glossy Accents and some Stickles and added it to the tag with foam pads.

The finishing touches are a fabric flower and some half-pearls.

There are still a couple of days left to join in with the challenge. Petra.

Tag Tuesday - Tattered and Torn

This week's Tag Tuesday theme is: Tattered and Torn which came in very handy as I have a big clean-up of my craft supplies at the moment and I seem to find all these bits and pieces of lost and now found left-overs behind the desk, in some corners ... some are a bit tattered some are torn. I created my tag from pieces I have been gathering over the last weeks... and later I found a few more  (lol)

 

  

 ripped corrugated paper layered with part of a vintage ledger and some torn cotton lace

  

an adorable little girl's image (Graphics Fairy) with distressed edges embellished with a 'squashed' vintage fabric button, a little mulberry flower and a stamped sentiment (Lili of the Valley) on torn cotton;

 

the paper beads are handmade from old tattered musical sheets, attached with a rusty safety pin

Hope you enjoy looking at my tag as much as I loved making it! 

have a lovely Sunday, Petra. 

Linked to: Vintage Stamping Challenges

Tag Tuesday - Beads Buttons and Bows

The three B's for Tag Tuesday ... three of my favourite items when it comes to crafting.  And I managed to keep it simple, no over the top bit I restraint myself (lol): one dotty button, one lacey bow and one little stary bead

 

arranged on a recycled cardboard heart painted with London Bus Fresco paint and covered with Glossy Accents.

 Thank you for popping in today. And a very warm welcome to new followers, thank you for following my blog! Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, Petra.

Tag Tuesday - Wedding

I have been late with my Wedding tag for Tag Tuesday. But I finished it eventually ......

I chose a pale colour theme for my tag. The background paper for the tag is from Craftworkscard and so are the little square images which I layered on top of a lacey doily.

The wedding dress is folded from EchoPark papers. I haven't done any Origami folds lately and it was so much fun to make the dress. I adroned it with ribbon, paper flower and little glittery hearts.

Wishing you a lovely evening, Petra.

Tag Tuesday - Travel

Two friends on the way to explore Hadrian's Wall ... a Roman defensive fortification in Britain. It stretches from Bowness-on-Solway on the West coast of Northern England to Ravenglass/Newcastle upon Tyne on the East coast ... 135km in total. In June two friends hit the trail to follow the tracks of the Romans from the West to the East coast of Northern England. A little parcel with a little tag helped them along ... that's what I think anyway (lol)

 

dry-embossed and inked Krafttag

layered with torn road atlas pages and some jute band

embellished with felt flowers, half-pearls and butterflies

and Dovecraft walking boots.

Enjoy your evening, Petra.

Linked to: Tag Tuesday

Tag Tuesday - Roaring Twenties

Oh dear, I am a bit behind ... but only by a couple of days (lol). Last week's challenge at Tag Tuesday was: Roaring Twenties. I love this time with its twists, novelties, the glamour, the daring styles .... 
My tag started life as paint left-over in very pale pink and nougat

 

 I cut a tag and covered it with crunched tissue paper. The crinkles were slightly inked with Victorian Velvet distress ink and stamped on it with Archival Coffee ink (all stamps from Artistic Outpost, lend by Lucy - thank you so much!)

 

 Once the base was created I embellished the tag with lace, pearls, ribbon, paper flower, pins and everything a sophisticated and stylish Lady would naturally need (lol)

Have a lovely evening, Petra.

linked to: Artistic Outpost - July
Make My Monday - Photo Inspiration (colour theme)
The Ribbon Reel Challenge - white, pink, flowers, ribbon & lace
Alphabet Challenge Blog - l for lace

Tag Tuesday - Italy

The current theme over at Tag Tuesday is: Italy ... what a wonderful theme! I like Italy a lot. I have been a couple of times in Tuscany and it is wonderful with the rich colours, the amazing landscape and brilliant food .... wish I would be there (sigh)

 

The design of the tag is really quite simple. I used as background a Gelliplate print which I created during a workshop with Andy Skinner (the workshop was brilliant!)

 I stamped (all stamps are Crafty Individuals) the Travel words with VersaMark Watermark ink on the background and heat-embossed with WOW embossing powder (I used it for the first time and I am quite impressed by the quality of it)

 

I applied the same procedure to the square images using a different Gelliplate print

I cut the images in squares and mounted them with foam pads on the tag.

The tag is embellished with just a little paper flower and a little half-pearl.

Wishing you a lovely weekend, happy crafting, Petra.

linked to: No Matter Which Challenges - Anything Goes

TagTuesday #4 - N for .......

... or newspaper or newspaper boy or numbers or .......

 I made this tag on the spur of the moment and just used whiat was in my reach:

newspaper which I crunched up and added to the pre-cut tag

the edges are distressed with VersaMagic ink 'Red brick'

stamped with Kaisercraft stamp and distress ink 'Fired Brick' and

PaperArtsy stamps and Archival Ink 'Jet Black'

as embellishments I chose a vintage button secured with button twine

and a pencil attached with button twine

Have a lovely evening, Petra.

Linked to: Tag Tuesday

             

TagTuesday #3 - M for Memories

This week's letter for Tag Tuesday is: M ... M for Memories

inky background brushed, stencilled and stamped (Prima Marketing, Eline Pellinkhof)

with various distress inks (sugar spun, victorian velvet, fired brick, festive berries)

on textured watercolour paper

darling girls' stamp from Artistic Outpost stamped with archival ink

 

word stamped (Elzybells) on transparency paper 

layered on left-over papers from EchoPark and Prima Marketing 

attached with staples

embellishments are little punched flowers from left-over EchoPark paper

layered with blingy stars and pearls

have a lovely evening, Petra.

Linked to: Simon Says Stamp and Show
Love to Create Challenge
Artistic Outpost April Referral Programme

TagTuesday #2 - K for Knitting and C for Crochet

Two more tags for Tag Tuesday, in the same area of craftmanship but they turned out quite differently

K for knitting

 

Aren't these two darling, sitting and chatting away over their knitting?

I found the image on Silke's blog, I wish I would own such wonderful knitting magazines (sigh).

The image is framed with cast-on using a big knitting needle,

the sentiment is printed and added with a little pearl

 It is all layered on an old German knitting pattern

and embellished with a little letter bead.

 C for Crochet

One of my crochet flowers became the focal point for this tag,

added with washi tape, ricrac ribbon and pearls,

the sentiment is stamped (Elzybells).

 

For the background I sprayed white card with Dylusion spray ink ... 

isn't the negative brilliant ... it will be one of my next projects (lol)

the stamping was done with Kaisercraft stamps and bottle tops.

have a lovely weekend, Petra.

TagTuesday #1 - J for Joyful Jumping

I am well behind the alphabet challenge over at Tag Tuesday but I am determind to catch up! This week's letter is 'J': J for Joyful Jumping

the tag is cut from scraps of October Afternoon paper

layered with a stamped background (Hero Arts, Memento Ink) and 

a little gras panel cut with Memory Box die and scraps of free magazine paper

the sentiment is stamped (Lily of the Valley)

 

the image is from A Day for Daisies coloured with Copics and Sharpies

cut out and  added to the tag with foam pads

white twine and a little letter bead finish the tag

Have a lovely - and not so wet - Sunday, Petra.

Belated: Christmas Tag Swap

Oh oh, I completely forgot to blog about the Christmas tags which I made for a Tag Tuesday Christmas swap organised by Carolyn .... and it was such great fun and I very much enjoyed creating the tags .... and it was the first time I felt Christmas is coming ... We were asked to make five tags, they could all be the same or all be different

 

Supplies: 

paper from Authentique, BoBunny, EchoPark,white and Kraftcard

stamps from Tim Holtz and Elzybells

Artchix Studio, PaperWhimsy, Graphics Fairy and Suzie Quee for digital images

lace, blings, flowers, charms, ribbon and twine

And these are the wonderful tags I received from five very talented Ladies

 Hope you enjoyed re-visiting Christmas with me ... and I have to say after looking again at the wonderful tags I received, I cannot wait for the next Christmas time! Have a wonderful week, Petra.

Linked to: Brag Monday