My poem for this week's challenge is called "To the Dandelion" by James Russell Lowell. I found it in a beautiful 1952 "My Poetry Book an anthology of Modern Verse for Boys and Girls by Huffard, Carlisle and Ferris. It is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations and a really nice selection of poetry. I have a lilli of the valley stamp that I thought of when I came across it and hence a tag was born!
It is a very long poem, but I just used the first few lines to help illustrate my tag:
"Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,
Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,
First pledge of blihesome May,
Which children pluck, and full of pride, uphold,
High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they
An Eldorado in the grass have found,"
I used water colour paper as my base, and coloured the image with watercolour pencils and blended with water, added sparkle with glamour dust and stickles, punched border from handmade gold paper and added gold ribbon to capture the idea of gold and a yellow flower and leaf ribbon (all from my stash) to illustrate a dandelion.
I enjoyed this challenge and I just am blown away by all the talented artists that appear on this blog...it is a true pleasure to be a part of this!!
Hugs,
Ivy
Such beautiful art work!
ReplyDeleteIvy that trailing delicate yellow flower with the gorgeous leaves is such a nice touch for this. Love the lace at the bottom too. Like this tag a lot. Nice work!! *smiles* Norma
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! Perfect colors!
ReplyDeletedelightful - such a sweet tag. I really like the way you have taken the sprig of buds off the edge of the tag.
ReplyDeleteThis is a darling tag!
ReplyDeletesWEET LITTLE TAG; THE YELLOW SPRIG OF FLOWERS REALLY BRINGS IT TO LIFE, JANE xx
ReplyDeleteIvy this is so sweet.... I love the colours and the dangly yellow stem is just the perfect finishing touch.
ReplyDeleteKaren
Beautiful Tag, such a cute image, Perfect!! May x
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