As we are at the cottage in France now, I thought I would use a French word this week. I picked POISSONS ( fish ). I used an illustrations from a very old French Larousse dictionary, a bit of dyed gauze, a snippet of dyed fish skin, a cut out fish or two, a little bit of vintage French trim and of course a few little sparklies here and there. Stamped POISSONS on the side, dang, that old paper soaks up ink like a sponge, so its a bit fuzzy -
Gotta get out into the garden now and start digging over the veggie patch. I have to make the most of the good weather, we had three days of sunshine but as from tomorrow we are looking forward to yet another week's worth of rain, hurrah :(. At least that will give me time to visit you all :-).
Toodlepip xxx
Ein schönes Tag mit den vielen Fischen.
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Einen schönen Tag :-)
Love all the jewel tones against the craft tag. I am not sure about the dyed fish scales - real ones? I guess it would at the dimension of smell to your pretty tag!!!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteYep, the fish skin is real, but it doesn't smell at all fishy, it just smells like normal leather. I bought a bag of fish leather scraps from an Etsy shop a while ago and love the stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! The rich blues really add!
ReplyDeleteLovely tag great colours
ReplyDeleteLovely tag, but those fish leather scales do sound rather fishy....enjoy France, I'm trying not to be tooooooo envious! Valerie
ReplyDeleteWhat a fascinating tag Lululiz. The blues are simply gorgeous! :0)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant tag, love the paper you found, colours are great. X
ReplyDeleteLovely tag! I really like the images you have used from an old dictionary. I have never heard of dyed fish skin before-dare I say, now I have seen everything! It is effective though.
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As you are all wondering about the fish skin leather, I thought I had better give you a link to the shop -
ReplyDeletehttps://www.etsy.com/shop/FineLeathers. Do read their shop announcement, where it tells you a little bit about the leathers.
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I love the background, its great to see the french names of familiar fish. Love the colours and embellishments esp sparklies, Jane xx
ReplyDeleteLove the fish illustration you used for the background. I love old illustration from dictionary. Great Tag Jules
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