Flowers On Wall, Double Tag, Hello

Some of you know that I'm the parent of a teen with High Functioning Autism.  What most of you don't know is that on 5th January, 2016, she set into motion a chain of events that have had catastrophic consequences.

I have no intention of explaining it all now.  Truth be told I may never know the reasons why she did what she did.  But I will try and explain after Christmas as best I can.

All I can tell you for now is that she once asked, early on, if I was ok...  and was told I was finding it difficult, but understood...

That second part's not true.  I will never understand.

I'm telling you this because I'm struggling right now and these next few months will be very difficult.  So please bear with me.  I'm behind on commenting on your blogs, Facebook, Instagram...  but I haven't forgotten any of you that I normally stop by and leave some love to.  

I'll catch up as and when I can...  X

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It's Tag You're It Friday time again, and I've gone for a style that reminds me more of one of my fellow Team Mates than it does me.  Can you guess which one?

I'll give you a clue.  Imagine my tag with more!

 (I should probably show you my tag now.  You can't guess if you can't see it..!)

Here's one that's a little closer...

...  and one that shows the whole photo layout.

I do love photo props.  Can you tell?

  

Our inspiration for this challenge comes from this very beautifully made tag...

I was tempted to do likewise and dig out a cake stamp for some pretty flowers to cascade all over...  but then I got the idea of flowers cascading down a wall instead.

I have snuck in an extra colour (purple), but other than that my colour scheme, flower placements, sparkly glitter tag and sequins have all been faithfully copied from Rubenna's tag...  they just aren't necessarily copied 'like for like'.

Supplies Used:

Die:

Spellbinders Deckled Rectangle - Large

Stamp:

Bo Bunny 'Wall To Wall'

SugarPea Designs 'Funky Wreaths/Spring'

Clearly Besotted 'Flutterby Dreams'

Inks:

Tsukineko/Memento 'Gray Flannel'

Tsukineko/Memento ' Real Black'

Tim Holtz Distress 'Picked Raspberry'

Tim Holtz Distress 'Bundled Sage'

Tim Holtz Distress 'Seedless Preserves'

Tim Holtz Distress 'Milled Lavender'

Ranger 'Perfect Medium'

Embossing Powder:

Stampendous 'Clear detail'

Other:

Twine - Black and White 

Sequins

Challenges I'm Entering...

Pixies Crafty Snippets Challenge

(I managed to use about half of my Watercolour Paper scraps on these flowers and leaves, plus the tag's been cut from a scrap of white card).

Simon Says/Wednesday

'Anything Goes'

Allsorts Challenge

Week #386     'Sparkle and Shine'

Come and join us at Tag You're It...  We'd love to see you there.

Stay warm and have a good weekend...

Donna. x 

Flowers on String, UpCycling, Acetate

A new challenge starts today at what I now like to unofficially call 'Tag You're It' Friday.

(I can't help it.  I like the way it sounds).

My design for this challenge started off with every intention of being quite true to our Featured Artist's inspiration tag...  but then it digressed into something quite different.

Let me show you my tag...

...  and at a different angle...

...  and the tag created just for us by Michele Ferguson.

The similarities are there...

I focused on those pretty blue flowers, decided to upcycle some cardboard packaging from my Gorjuss patterned papers collection to create more flowers (there are two kinds on Michele's tag) and then stretched out my design on to a piece of string instead of keeping it quite compact on the leaves.

Don't ask me why.  

 (I may have mentioned this before, but my brain often takes 'interesting' detours when I'm crafting)!

I will say that the original intention was to use a branch in place of the leaves, but I decided against that as I felt the design would get too busy.

So string it was!
And I have used two tags (just like Michele) - it's just that one was cut and embossed from acetate before being partially glued into place over the other one.

I even managed to include dark centres on my flowers - just like the dark centres on Michele's blue flowers.
So all in all I didn't digress that far off track...  although I did sneak in one final sparkly touch before gluing everything into place!


Here's a close up so you can see it...

Supplies Used:


Die:
Sizzix/Framelits 'Tag Collection'
Memory Box 'Fabulous Phlox'
Memory Box 'Flower Mound'

Stamp:
SugarPea Designs 'Funky Wreath - Spring Edition'

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress 'Stormy Sky'
Tim Holtz Distress 'Broken China'

Embossing Folder:
Crafter's Companion/Textures Elements 'Snow' (8x8)

Other:
Ranger/Stickles 'Sprinkled Sugar'
String

Challenges I'm Entering...

Pixies Crafty Snippets Challenge

CAS-ual Fridays

Challenge #153   'Gift Tags'

Simon Says/Wednesday

Fabulous Florals

Allsorts Challenge

Week #374   'A Touch Of Sparkle'

We would love to see how Michele inspires you to play along, so why not join us?
Have a happy weekend.

Donna. x