The great tag project ... round 2: markings

The theme for this tag is markings.  Boy was I perplexed trying to come up with an idea for a photo! Then one day I was looking at the sheet of notebook paper that I used to record (mark) our words that we chose.  Tada! And the photo was complete!

     
I tore pieces of the notebook paper to place behind the matted photo.

I was so careful to keep the paper so that I could remember what words we chose. Hmmm.  Looks like pictures of a vegetable and weeds still need to be completed.  Well, those will have to wait … maybe until she finishes her part of the project. Yeah, right!

Finally, check out the flowers I created using a Stampin’ Up! daisy punch. Does that paper look familiar?

And the project is a wrap! Thank you for visiting; I hope you enjoyed it!

The great tag project ... round 2: cemetery

The word for this tag is cemetery. This tag is special to me because it features my parents’ grave.  It has been 15 years since my mom died, and dad has been gone for 12 years.  Sometimes it seems like yesterday, and sometimes a long time ago.

See that twig on the left side and across the bottom of the tag? I picked it up on the same day that I took the photo, just so that I could have something to remind me of them. Now Sister is going to have it in her possession.

I created a pocket on the front of the tag using some special cardstock. Notice how the pull on the “drawer” says Happy Thoughts? Well, I always have happy thoughts of my parents. I used a die that I have to create the piece that is secreted in the pocket.

Here’s the tag pulled out.  I photographed their headstone when we were up north. Sorry, but privacy requires that the demographic information is blurred out.

I absolutely love this flower. Again, my Cricut came to the rescue! The gauze adds just the right shabby chic feel to the flower, and I cut a leaf out of a fabric sample to finish it off.

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the next tag!

The great tag project ... round 2: #17

The “word” for this tag was 17.  Technically, I didn’t take the picture … it was my senior high school graduation photo.  But in order to comply with the rules, I took a picture of the picture.

As a proud Wickliffe High School Blue Devil, I regularly dressed in Blue and Gold.  What memories!

These Tim Holtz tags were in my stash.  What a coincidence that one sported the number 17!

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The great tag project ... round 2: calm

This tag features the word calm.

As I mentioned earlier, I live in SW Florida! Sunday, September 10, 2017, was quite an eventful day because the eye of Hurricane Irma passed DIRECTLY. ABOVE. OUR. HOUSE.

Anyone who lives in hurricane-prone areas knows how busy people are in the days and hours leading up to the arrival. Once all of the preparations are complete, there's almost a feeling of peace surrounding everyone. This is a photo of our house taken the day before. It’s a good thing that I had this photo, because we used it to document the condition of our roof prior to Irma’s visit.

Peace … as shown by the Tim Holtz word tag. Once all of the preparations are complete, you just sit and wait. Peacefully. Calmly.

Once the storm starts (and yes, we did stay in our house), you can hear the wind whistling and feel the intensity of the rain. We are fortunate to have hurricane-rated windows, so we were able to go from room to room to see what was happening!

None of my other tags have something on the back, but this one deserved something since there are two sides to a storm. There is almost always a calm before the storm. You can see the ripped screens on our lanai as well as the large oak tree that fell in our front yard. We are quite fortunate that it didn’t drop in the other direction.

The question asks if anyone could imagine what the storm would do, and it’s always a guessing game.  Where it is going to go. What it’s going to do. What will be the damage?

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the next tag!

The great tag project ... round 2: decorations

The theme word for this tag is decorations.  And boy, did I decorate this tag.  Can you tell that I am a big fan of the color blue?

The dishes in the photo are on the hutch in the dining room. However, that hutch no longer exists due to a renovation project, so it’s good to have it as a reminder.

Look at that sweet leaf cut from a fabric sample! What about that gorgeous glittery ribbon stretched across the tag?

Another Cricut flower on the left and a Sister-created flower on the right.  She is a pro at making them … I am most definitely not. I think I used some old sewing pattern paper to create the leaves.

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The great tag project ... round 2: beads

This tag features the word beads. I went to a store (maybe WalMart, I’m not sure) and found these colorful beads in a tangle on a shelf.

Don’t you like how I cut the circles and wrote the letters on each circle and then strung them together just like a strand of beads?

That cut little purple flower is from an old die set that I have.  I think it’s Sweet Williams by Cheery Lynn Designs

Sister crocheted this white flower and gifted it to me.  I gussied it up with a tiny flower cut with my Cricut as well as a fringe of yarn.

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The great tag project ... round 2: bottle

This tag features the word bottle. I went to Publix and scoured the shelves for a pretty pink bottle that I wanted to use to match cardstock in my stash.

Look how purty this flower turned out! Of course, my trusty Cricut made the job easy peasy!

Here’s another pretty flower. This is actually some plastic that I thought would look gorgeous.  By golly, it does!

Oh, those Cricut flowers are amazing!

Finally, here’s a perfectly tied bow courtesy of my Bow-it-All! You can’t go wrong if you have one of these handy tools.

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The great tag project ... round 2: bridge

This tag features the word bridge. We were on the Railroad at Disney World, and this bridge popped up in front of me.  Score!

Since Mickey is the star, it only made sense for him to have one in his hand.

Any scrapbooking fanatic who also loves Disney certainly has a stash of stickers and other goodies to adorn their work. This puffy sticker and the polka-dotted ribbons were in my stash.

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The great tag project ... round 2: chocolate

This tag’s theme is chocolate. I scattered a handful of M&Ms on the table and took a close-up shot. Then, I used polka-dotted paper to continue the circle design.

Yes, these are more Cricut flowers! Can you see the little dewdrops on the petals of the daisy? And what about the gorgeous plaid paper for its neighbor?

When Sister and I had our last tag project, I used something from my stash that she had given me.  Well, these two flowers are her creation! I added the black screening behind the purple flower as well as the leaf cut from a fabric sample on the plaid one.

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The great tag project ... round 2: autumn

The word for this tag was autumn.  Living in SW Florida doesn’t give us a chance to enjoy the changing of the colors.  We joke that we know it’s autumn because the license plates change colors due to the many snowbirds that visit our area.

I took the photo at a local fabric shop; it’s a bolt of fabric.  Quite creative on my part, right?  LOL!

I cut two leaves from some autumn-themed cardstock using my Cricut. The key is altered using alcohol ink and topped with strands of fibers.

The flower was also cut on my Cricut. I added some sparkle using sparkly paint.

I kept an old dictionary and pulled out the page containing the word autumn. I made sure that it stood out by circling it.

One more shot of the fabric.

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The great tag project ... round 2: introduction

Some of you might remember the 24 tag project that Sister and I completed in 2016. If you don’t remember, here’s a link to the first blog post for that project.

Well, just as soon as the tags found their way to the recipient, we decided on another tag project. This time, she compiled a list of about 300 words.  We then picked 12 numbers, and the word that went with this number was the theme of one of the tags.  Multiply that by 12 and you get 12 tags.  Just like the previous project, we had to take the photo and then add it to a tag.  The tags needed to be sent to the recipient by the end of 2017.  Now, it’s 2021, and I am just finishing my portion.

One of the two of us <cough> never did anything.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for tag #1!

BTW:  I only did ten of my twelve words.  I will try to get the final two finished before four more years pass. Or, as I told her yesterday ... when she sends me her finished project.

Sympathy card

Sympathy cards are (in my opinion) the most difficult cards to make as well as to write inside.  A friend's brother recently passed away, and this is what I designed.

Funky Fold November 10, 2021

Here are two pictures of cards that I made for Dena Rekow's Card Challenge from Monday, November 8, 2021.  I forgot to take the pictures prior to writing in the card, hence the note covering what I wrote.

This was a really fun card to make, and I'm sure that I will use the pattern again.

CardzTV Anything Goes Challenge #151

A friend will be celebrating her birthday in a few days, and I decided this afternoon to create her card.  She told me that she saves every card I send to her.  What a compliment that is!

I had no idea what I was going to do, so I picked the number six, went to one of my stamp boxes with the stamps in alphabetical order.  Set #6 was Gorgeous Posies, so I went with it.  My card was inspired by one created by Jenny Moors.  

I am entering this in CardzTV's Anything Goes Challenge #151

52 CCT - October 2021 Colour Challenge

Here is another challenge card.  This one is for the Red & Brown Colour Challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

Why don't you click on the graphic above and spend a few moments oohhing and aahhing over all of the very creative submissions there?

#TGIFC337 Sketch Challenge

I am determined to step up my posting, so I bookmarked a bunch of challenge sites.  This card is for the TGIF Challenges!; it's #337. Take a look at the sketch that inspired my card:

I saw a card online that really piqued my interest. The creator used about six bright, happy Stampin' Up! colors to stamp using the Textures and Frames stamp set.  Luckily, I earned that set for free during the recent Sale-a-Bration event. Unfortunately, I don't have the information to point you in the direction of the card that was my inspiration. 

My fingers were so inky from playing with the colors and stamps.  I have at least six panels that I can use on various cards, and when I saw this challenge, I knew that I had to participate!

Be sure to check out the other fantastic cards that are entered in this challenge.