Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Lady Luck

Here's my tag for this week's theme! I wasn't sure what to do for this, and did consider doing something based on the one bit of gambling which I actually do - which is to buy a £1 scratchcard in support of our local football team. But then the song 'Luck be a Lady' came into my head, and I knew I could finally use those giant playing cards that I bought thinking they would be good to use for making something!

So here is my rather large (A5 size!) tag, featuring Lady Luck!  I used the back of the cards to create her dress and embsllished it with hearts on the bust, and diamonds on the hem. She is wearing a spade belt. I used one of the Queen's faces, having asked my husband to choose which one he thought was prettiest! I used clubs to create her hairstyle. Her bracelets, shoes and hair decorations are all details from the Queen card I used for the face. Her neck, hands and legs I cut from the white part of a card, and I was very impressed with my cunning in using the corners to create her arms! I also used corners to create the capital Ls for Lady Luck. I added red, blue and black braid to finish her off!

14 comments:

  1. She is truly a fashionista. It's become a tradition of my Mother-in-Law to give each of us in the family a scratch lottery ticket for Christmas, but we've never won more than a couple of dollars. :\ Blessings!

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  2. Lovely tag, happy scratching and good luck! Valerie

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  3. Went through your casino and bingo tags, they are so cute, loved the plump ladies, and I had no idea that bingo was called lotto either, but then I don't know too much French :) Loved how you used the corners for the arms, very smart!! waving hi from the hills of North Carolina :)

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  4. LOVE that outfit...and the arms just Make the attitude.

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  5. Great idea and a fun tag.

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  6. Jo, this is such a clever tag!LOVE it!!
    Judy

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  7. Fabulous... love the outfit... May x

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  8. This is so whacky! Love it. You have been so clever with this, Carolyn x

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  9. This is a very creative tag, she looks brilliant! Well done, a mini masterpiece x

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  10. This is brilliant - really impressed with the way you have used playing cards to create Lady Luck

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  11. A very clever way to recreate Lady Luck, love her hair! Jane xx

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  12. What a clever take on this theme Jo...cool little tag!

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