Green

I've been looking at what I missed whilst I was away. S'trewth you are a clever lot. 'Green' was the one I came back to. Into the stash I went. I kid you not I could while away whole days in the stash boxes.
I thought you might like to see what green goodies I unearthed so I took a pic.
On the tag I made everything myself at some time or other, including bits of handmade paper.
I love the names of paints so on they went too.
Kind regards to you all

Pat x

Green

If anyone out there is in charge

of this weather, can I just say

I HAVE HAD ENOUGH NOW.

Rant Over!

This week I put a selection of

fabrics into Procion dye,

(Olive Green) and this is what

came out! I thought I would get

a selection of greens, but as

you can see there is an 

amazing selection of colours as

the fabrics are a mixture of

man made and natural.

Have a lovely weekend ladies,

and no, the garden does NOT need the rain.



Green

For this tag, I used matte medium to glue tan script pint tissue to the background.  When it was dry, I scrapped the edges and distressed them with a Sepia Archival ink pad.  I cut a photograph I took of a Southwestern Earless Lizard at Big Bend into a circular shape and edged it with the sepia pad.  (I love the lizard's emerald green markings!)  

 photo and words

© Arnoldo L. Romero 2012

Next, I composed a haiku poem about the experience and wrote it on a sheet of K&Company Smash captions with a green marker.  I also edged the sheet with the sepia pad.  I used some K&Company die-cuts that matched my green theme, and arranged them along with my other elements on the tag.  I made a pendant using some green and amber glass beads and tied it to the end of a strip of green twine.  I tied a feather to the other end.  I attached the twine to my tag

Arnoldo

Green

This weeks tag is inspired by the poem by Wordsworth, 'The Green Linnet', a bird we now call the green finch.

While searching for the poem on line, I also found a piece of music by the same name, so just had to use that too.

The sheet music was coloured with Dylusions spray-fresh lime, and then I sprinkled on dishwasher salt to give a mottled effect.  When this was dry, I adhered it to an acrylic bird shape I have had for quite some time, with Decopatch glossy glue.  The words of the poem were adhered to a manila tag and coloured with distress inks.  Lots of little white flowers from my stash to finish the tag off.

I must apologise for not visiting anyone last week, a broken laptop was the start of the problem and then when I got it back from being mended by my son, I had school reports to do.  All being well, I shall be visiting everyone this week.  Happy creating!!!

Green

What a week! Yesterday was the private view for the exhibition at the end of my Foundation Course (photos on my blog http://joscreativeblog.blogspot.co.uk) and I'm feeling tired, excited, sad and apprehensive because assessments aren't until next week.
At least there is some brain space now for other things. Green inspired lots of ideas, including 'not so much green as cabbage looking' but in the end I went for 'The Owl and the Pussycat' in their 'beautiful pea-green boat'. I stitched it in 2 strands of white stranded cotton, using stem stitch. I added a green ric rac loop, probably more use for hanging this is it has turned out rather large!

GREEN

For my Green Tag this week, I have used a copy of some calligraphy I did previously.   The poem, Jasmine, is part of the oriental romance Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore, published in 1817.

For the original artwork which is A4 size I made the variegated writing by using various shades of green watercolour.  It is decorated with sprigs of Jasmine. 

I mounted my small copy onto green card, and then made a tassel using co-ordinating green threads all finished with green beads of various shapes and sizes. 

Here I have photographed my tag against some jasmine leaves, sadly it was not in bloom, but the shadows make beautiful shapes.

I found I had loads of ideas on this theme.  I got quite carried away with the idea of making a ‘green man’, but I have decided to make this into a bigger embroidery project over the next few weeks / months.  

It was really great to see all your camping tags, and whether you love it or hate the thought of it!  I’m looking forward to seeing what you all made of the green theme.

Bye for now

Jane xx

Green

Not one of my favourite colours but I had fun making this tag.

I fussy cut the peacock  feather and added a stamp (both courtesy of June @ Dezinaworld) . The rest of the supplies are from a Glitterati Crafts Inspiration Pack...background paper, mesh, peacock, ribbon and round flower centre.

GREEN

GREEN!


Well, sort of green. I thought about green like money and of course green with envy... but what I really think of when I hear green is my Daddy. When I was growing up I can remember him singing (with lots of volume and enthusiasm but not on key) "Down the road I looked and there stood Mary, hair of golden , lips like cherries, I long to touch the GREEN, GREEN grass of home." Even though my hair was never golden, I just knew that he was singing that song for me. So, in honor of green and my wonderful Dad, Hank, I put together a little tag. The front is just a green translucent overlay with the word "green" stamped on it, with a bit of lace at the bottom that I dyed green with alcohol ink. Showing though is a watercolor that I did of the little yellow brick house we grew up in. And when you open that tag up, there is a picture of Daddy and me. While not artistically one of my better efforts, this tag made me sing (off key, of course!) and remember the special man that my Dad was and it made me smile!


   Wishing you all a creative week filled with joy and  music!

Best, Mary Ann

Green

I had fun with this because I rarely work with just one color - and I love green! On a tag made of water color paper, I sprayed a thin layer of a light bright green. After that, I used alcohol ink in a deeper green to deepen areas of the tag. Next I stamped the tag with a deep green ink using a stamp that has a vein-like appearance. Last, I used markers and drew a dandelion - yes a weed, but such a pretty lacy weed. I think it turned out well but later decided to emboss it to add some depth. I didn't like it quite as much after embossing it, so I was glad that I took the first pictures, too. You choose which you like more.

original

Embossed

GREEN

I didn't know what to do for Green...

So many possibilities!!...

So I grabbed a chipboard tag..

painted it green....

Then...I searched through my crafty stash to see what other green-ess I had!!

I found some lovely green lace

(which I wrapped around my painted tag)

...It reminded me of the sea...

and this is what appeared a little while later!

...after adding painted clay cab face (green eyeshadow!!) and shells, fibers, charms, glass pebbles (boobies!),gems, beaded wire and a tim holtz sentiment tag.

Molly the mermaid looking quite content in her sea of Green!

 

Thanks for peeking!

Jan x

Tag Tuesday-Green

Hi everyone, 

Jane here.

The countryside in Berkshire/Oxfordshire is looking so green and lush at the moment, it must be all that rain we have had! Three months rainfall fell overnight last week, but the good news is the hosepipe ban has been lifted! The first thing that sprang to mind when I thought about Green was green leaves, as seen everywhere whilst driving around.

I have used the set embroidery stitches on my machine and stitched leaves and the words "Green Leaves". The background was from a piece I have just coloured up for the Design To Stitch course I am studying with C & G tutor Shelagh Folgate. This month we are working with one colour and  mine is green! How lucky was that!

Green Generations

My tag is very simple this week,

 I wanted to display these beautiful stamps to be admired on their own

I thought they were quite apt in celebration of this diamond jubilee year

three generations of royal Monarchy, 

the queen and the young queen,

 her father King George VI and his father George V.

Tag: Recycled brochure cover

Embellishments: Organza ribbon, four original postage stamps, paper rose with yarn.

Tie: Satin ribbon

Thank you everyone for your lovely comments on my tag last week

 I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone does for this theme.

Green

Hi , Everyone,

Thank you Carolyn for inviting me to join the Tag Team. I am really excited about posting my first tag although Carolyn has been kind enough to post some of my tags before.

As this weeks theme is "Green" it was an opportunity for me to use a lovely piece of silk that I had in my stash. This week's tag is just a simple one. I used a brown tag and attached the tattered  green silk heart (not a common colour used for hearts) with bondaweb and  hand wrote the words from the song by  Kermit the frog. It's not easy being GREEN.

I have played along now for so long. It's really great to be able to post my tags here. I'm off now to see what everyone else has done with this weeks theme.

Bye for now x

Green

When I was thinking about the tag for this week a little while ago, I almost panicked. Just GREEN leaves you with so many choices, so many possibilities, I found it really difficult to think of what I might do. But on Sunday, I went to a local boot fair, and on one of the stalls I saw a couple of framed real butterflies, and one of them was the most beautiful emerald green.  That was the lightbulb moment for this week's tag.


Here is my GREEN tag with my selection of beautiful shimmery green butterflies -

I used a couple of green paints on the white tag and then overlaid the tag with that gorgeous parchment paper with the glittery flowers. Spent some time on the net finding green butterflies, printed and cut them out, and made some wire antennae for the larger ones. Bit of green trim for the bottom and thats it, GREEN tag done.

Green

Hi taggers!  For some reason, I thought of green Jell-o for the theme this week.  In an old Jell-o recipe book I found the image and recipe for grasshopper pie which I liked better than any green Jell-o photo I had. The crocheted motifs are from an old crochet magazine.  The fork is from an old flatware ad, and the green floral background is new scrapbook paper. Hope everyone is having a nice start to summer!

Green

Bonjour!  Here is my 'green' tag.  I have used distress inks, a stencil, silver butterflies which I coloured with alcohol ink and a stamp of some tall grasses.  I also stamped some script at random and used crackle paint around the edges.  The bottom is finished off with a strip of fabric dyed with distress ink. I have cashed in all the Tesco Clubcard points I collected before moving to France to buy a new SLR digital camera which should be with me this weekend so, hopefully,  my photos will be of a better quality from now on.   This tag is actually much 'greener' than it looks here!  Isn't this fun!  Bye for now, Carolyn.

GREEN

Hi everyone,

What a challenging week it's been.  The main reason being I don't do green particularly -  I love it in the great outdoors, but it's not a colour I use in my art very often, or wear or live with around the home.  However, not only was this weeks tag needing to be green but coincidentally another challenge I've been taking part in required art in the colours of mint-choc-chip ice cream (if that sounds interesting to you the details about it are on my blog).

I finally put together two tags (the second one trying to improve on the first), but it was a struggle!

Thank you to everyone who left comments last week, and hope you all have a  great week.

Green

Green is my favourite colour and I was racking my brains what to do (this opens the design doors so wide it is quite difficult to pick a topic)  I started to think about doing something sea orientated and mermaid just popped (swam) into my head and everything when sparkly from then on.  I now have mermaid scales on my fingers (ok then, stickles!)

My tag is sprayed liberally with Dylusions ink sprays Lime, Sky Blue Pearl and Vanilla Custard.  My kitchen towel that I used to catch overspray looks just as stunning as my tag (saving that!).  I added seaweed to the bottom of the tag by scribbling on Turquoise, Green and Lime Green Stickles.  No great skill required so far!

I printed out a mermaid image as a base to decorate and then set to with a hole punch.  I punched out pretty scales from glitter and shimmery card in shades of green and turquoise.  I really enjoyed layering up the scales on the tail and adding more stickles and gems to make my mermaid shimmer.

 Here is a close up of the scales and seaweed.

I can almost hear the ocean in the distance.

 A fitting quote from the most famous little mermaid of all was added next and some seaweed style fibres with stickles liberally applied were tied to the top of the tag.  I wanted to add shells but they just didn't fit in with this fantasy image of life under the sea so I opted for these copper star embellishments that were hiding in my stash and I think that they look a bit like ethereal jelly fish or maybe fabulous squid floating by.  I have loved getting all glittery and girly for this green themed tag.

 

My Birthday Blog Candy Giveaway ends tomorrow midnight so almost the last chance to enter.  Follow this link and leave me a comment to join in the fun.

I can't wait to see what green inspired tags are created by the fabulous Tag Tuesday crew.

Thanks for popping by and thank you to everyone that left such lovely comments last week

Helen

Green

Thank you to everyone for all their comments last week.
 Always so generous from such talented people.

For this tag I used some fuse wire, beads and ribbon for the hanger. The dragonfly I overlaid onto the card, (plain white, stuck onto a cut off a Graze box), just using my pc; same with the date. I love the 3D butterfly and the way the sun cast a shadow through it's wings (yes I did say sun there, don't faint). I added a wee button, a layered flower fastened with a flowery brad and some glittered glue (not greatly happy with that but couldn't take it off again) and scattered other bits n bobs around about.

 
Can't wait to see everyone elses this week, I need to imbibe more inspiration

Mo

Green

Well, after all our June rain Britain is very much a green and pleasant land, so to celebrate our beautiful countryside I thought I would try for a Green Man, which is a sculpture or drawing of a face surrounded  by leaves. He is found on churches and other buildings and is a symbol of rebirth or renaissance. For some reason he is nearly always a man, green women are rare!

I started by embosssing my tag with a wood grain folder to represent the bark of a tree and coloured it with all the brown distress inks. After trying many forms I painted the green face with water colours onto cartridge paper and then adhered it to 'Clearly for Art' which is a marvelous material that you can heat and then shape, it gave his face some dimension.

Then I punched and die cut leaves from grungepaper and card from my stash, went mad with greeen paint, added angelina fibre and wool to his hair and painted his eyes with lumescent green paint to give him his stare! I then remembered some acrylic green leaf buttons I had stashed away so glued them on for extra depth. Fun to make, can't wait to see all your green contributions this week!

Thankyou all for your kind comments, I love reading them. Take care and have a good week, try and get out into the countryside or a park when you can! x

Canary Green

 

Last week I was in my green caravan in the very green Lake District surrounded by the green of the woodland outside and Cartmel Fell.  Frida my lovely Cyber Green VW Beetle was with us fully recovered from her traumas the week before.
 Did all this greenness help me with my tag ?  A bit.

It seemed right to use my leaf punch and all the green papers I had stashed, but that was as far as it got ideas wise.  In the end I layered up card, paper, wire, some brads, added my green Doodly Bird, put him on a perch but then decided that he would not like it in a cage because as you know all my Doodly Birds have the run of the house, so I pulled him outside the bars so that he can fly about if he wants to.

Hope you all have a good week and thank you for your lovely comments last week on the Doodly Birds touring round the country in their caravan.

Lynn xx

Green

Our theme this week at Tag Tuesday is *green*. I have used mostly re-cycled materials - green! and a lot of green stuff. The cardboard has been distressed, gessoed and then painted green, before being inked with gold and green. The image is from Graphics 45, the lace has been recycled, and the beads have been made from painted paper, rolled round a knitting needle. I made the beads to hang on presents last Christmas, put them in a tin, and forgot where they were....Last week I found them again, so here they are on my tag.

That's all for today!

Take care, have a lovely day, and thanks for visiting!

Valerie

GREEN

Good Morning all, This week at Tag Tuesday is to use GREEN.... Well I went for the colour Green which is one of my favorites.. I used Tim Holtz products for this Tag,  Alcohol inks for the background as well as Distress inks.. The flower & leaves is also a Tim Holtz die stamped with a Andy Skinner stamp!  I could only think of a flower with the hope that summer will be along soon. Looking foward to seeing all your fabulous makes this week.. Hugs May x x x x.

Camping.

For my tag for the Camping theme this week I have chosen meadows and cows. The stamps are by Stampscapes and I have used chalk pads to create the sky and meadow backgrounds.

Cut with an oval nestie, adhered to backing card and again cut with a larger nestie.  A simple string tie to finish.



Camping

Making this tag brought back lots of happy memories.  I camped frequently in my "younger years" with my friends, and my husband, and later with my son, too.  The summer of 1971, after I graduated from college, I went on a cross country camping trip with 3 friends for 6 weeks.  We started in Connecticut and toured the US in a big loop, and had a fantastic time.  These girls reminded me of my friends, although you would have to replace those skirts with blue jeans, and those hairdos with long, straight waist length hair!  Every night we put up a little orange pup tent that took just a few minutes to set up and take down.  We had many fun experiences, I'm so glad I had the opportunity to travel like this back then, and again later with my husband and son.  You sure won't see me camping now!  I like my hotels and all the luxuries that go with them.

Camping

This post comes from Arnoldo L. Romero

 who made his tag WHILE CAMPING on holiday/vacation in Texas

in his words ...

"This is the camper my family and I are staying in.  We love it!  It's smaller than my home studio, but it's private and comfortable

After a long hike with the family, I was inspired to work on my artwork.  I used the table in the camper as my "studio" with my traveling art kit

 The first art project I designed was this tag for Tag Tuesday - Camping.  I used a Smash pocket with a bird, a tab, a piece of twine, and scraps of paper from an ArtC ATC kit.  I cut all the cactus, flowers and skull by hand.  I also lettered the tab by hand.  Since I had covered part of the "Look please" phrase that was already on the pocket with my collage, I went over it with a sharpie pen

This is the back of the pocket.  I will use it to store pictures from my family trip (These are just flyer cut outs).  Fun, right?

Big Bend is such a blessed place, that all I can do is rejoice"

 and you can see the rest of Arnoldo's post

on his blog here