Tag You're it Challenge 1 - On a bough

Hi there, Happy Easter, have you scoffed all your chocolate eggs yet.

I will be helping the kids with theirs later on.

First of all I want to share with you some fantastic news.

A while ago my lovely friends Anne and Sam asked me if I wanted to join their DT on the fantastic challenge blog Tag You're it. This is a blog dedicated to those who love making tags.

I used to join in with the wonderful challenges just over a year ago.

The blog was dismantled for a while as other projects took over. It has undergone a Spring clean and we are relaunching with some AMAZING challenges lined up.

The lovelyLinda is also joining us on the DT.

This week the challenge is On a bough. For me, this immediately led me to think of birds and trees.

I used my new Elaine cox image from Sweet Pea stamps. I love this plate of stamps. I firstly cut out a tag. I used distress inks to create a background onto which I stamped my image.

I then coloured on top of the distress ink with my prismacolour pencils. I added some punched leaves also coloured with prismacolour pencils. I then added some glossy accents to the eyes of the owls.

I added a sentiment from the same plate of stamps. I then added some pearls and a ribbon and used a white gel pen to add some faux paperpiercing to the edge of the tag.

I layered the tag onto some pale green card to which daubed some acrylic paint onto the edges.

We would love you to join in with our challenge. xx

One busy saturday!!!!!

What a week!!!! I am hoping that we will be moving soon. We are going to view a house next Tuesday. Literally down the road!!! I am just hoping this time it is okay. I believe it will happen. I am also really saddened this morning to read the news that Jade Goody (who comes from Bermondsey, where i live.) is terminally ill with cancer, especially as she could of been diagnosed with it a lot earlier than she was. It is so sad for someone who really hasn't had the best of lives. I hope she can spend some quality time with her young family. It must be very hard to come to terms with. Please if you pray spare a little thought for her and her family.
Anyway I have been a busy little bee and made some cards and a tag for some challenges. Scroll down for the relevant challenge.

Penny Black Challenge is a sketch. I added some faux stitching and a peel off greeting.

Saturday Sketch Challenge. I used my cuddlybuddly stamp which I think is just the cutest. I spent many years working with horses so I have a soft spot for a cute pony!!!

Tag You're it challenge . The theme is love. I used my Leanne Ellis stamp I cut her out and added some paper roses and a charm for her to hold. I kept traditional with the colours of Love red, white and black. I made the background with two stamps, embossing powder and glimmer mists. She is coloured with promarkers!

Tag you're it and one of my rings!

This week over Tag You're it at the challenge is a sketch by the lovely Kath. I have made it using my free stamps from Cardmaking and papercraft. You get 6 clear stamps I have used 3 on this tag. Check it out. I used my new watercolour pencils to colour in then I sprayed on two shades of glimmer mists. I then added an eyelet.
I made a beaded ring. This is the first one I have made in about 8 months.

Tag your're it - stripes

The challenge at Tag you're it! is to use stripes in your tag. I have made this using some striped paper free with papercraft essentials. I used some cream card stock. Made a bouquet of flowers and ribbon from stash. I used a paper artsy stamp for the sentiment.

Tag your're it - New stash challenge

The challenge at Tag Your're it is to create a tag from your new stash you got from Father Christmas. I have to be honest ,as I cannot lie. Me and the OH do not exchange christmas gifts, as his birthday is on December 23rd and mine is in 17 days...... I however have treated myself! Well rude not too. The stamp seen here and the promarkers arrived just after christmas from Mr Postie. I had made this card for Cuttlebug challenge but realised the card would not work for that challenge. So I have saved it and decided to use it for Mum's birthday at the end of the month. I therefore need a matching tag. When I went to get the stuff to make it I realised that I had no brown card left. Promarkers came in really handy to colour the cream card I used the cocoa colour. I then coloured in the image to match the card. I made a nestie style distressed flower and added a stickle dot as the centre of the flower. I cuttlebugged the blue card. I used a tag sentiment from the old stash and attatched it with jump rings. Mum is very particular, she is tres chic and posh and very french, none of which I am.

Tag your it! - Secret Santa

Hi, I am salivating over the prize on offer. Funky Hand Christmas CD!!!! The challenge has been set by the very inspirational Dawn. It is secret santa and you have to create a tag that reflects this idea. You remember in the office when you used to put all the names of the people in a hat and you pulled one out. You had to buy a present for a set amount of money. It may be a funny present(tag) or one that reflects the personality or simply be a secret santa tag.

I have been terribly boring and made a collage tag. I used an old image of Santa and sentiment from a recycled card. I then stamped a smaller tag and put a question mark on it to be the secret part.

All my babies have finished there school and nursery. I have an abundance of wrapping to do. Having to develop a stradegy to keep the children out of the way so I can wrap it all up. So I better start on the tags as I will have to put those on as I wrap to remember who's is who's!!!!!

tag your it - aqua and brown

A stunning colour combination to work with! Sarah has chosen aqua and brown as the theme for this weeks tag your it challenge. I decided to get arty and I used acrylics to paint my backgrounds a rich copper brown, and for the aqua I mixed blue,green and white. I added some swirls a stamp and some gems and ribbon from my new stash. I did a bit of doodling to finish off. Promise it looks better in real life. Photo mojo just shot to pieces. I have been poorly spent yesterday flaked out so that can be my excuse. My eldest daughter was very sick too..... she was actually sick! I was meant to go out last night and tonight so it was just my luck to fall ill.

Tag your're it! - Triangle

Sorry another christmas one! I used the papers and templates that came free with a copy of crafts beautiful and a lovely couple of paperartsy stamps and of course some doodles. I used cream card and as one of my stamps messed up I sponged on some of the same colour ink all over. Great challenge Carol! Endless possibilities.

Tag You're it challenge - Snow is falling

Hi, well my little one, who is now not so little (where has 8 months gone?) has responded well to his medication and is not wheezing so much now. ( He has had bronchillitus). Inbetween a million school runs and dinner and brownies I have managed to make this tag for Tag you're it challenge. I made the snowman, I stamped some basic grey paper with some falling snow. I also made a big glittery snowflake too. Have you guessed the theme is "snow is falling". Off to brownies again now, so will quickly post this to the right place and come back to comment on all the tags!

Tag your it! - Annes sketch

I love doing these, such fun! I made another christmas tag as it is around the corner and lots of pressies to add tags too. I want to know why is it that it rains everytime my daughter goes to a party and just as I am about to take her and pick her up? I used paperartsy papers, a paperartsy stamp for the text and the other stamps for the image are from my stash. I added a button with a snowflake on to embellish.

Tag you're it - Red and Green

I have made this a first time entry to Tag you're it. The theme is red and green. I created a background using glimmer mists a stencil and some stamping. I then added a tree embellishment I created and some brought presents. I stamped the sentiment using paperartsy stamps. I added some faux stitching a hole and some ribbon.