Tags for free and other stuff....

Hi you all. Hope you are enjoying your weekend.  It's quiet here - as always, so I've been trying to liven things up by holding conversations with myself, but somehow couldn't find the right theme....so it's quiet here, as I already said.

Here are my free craft tags. I got them with a double packet of deep frozen pizza. Really! All you need to do is to open up the package, and start cutting. It made 2 large tags:

6 medium ones:

And a whole load of book plates.

The Pizza wasn't bad either!

By the way, the dark spot on the left hand side was something on my camera, sorry!

Over at 'Artful Times'  the theme is to have a tree as the focal point. I made a tag using one of my  new craft tags. I stamped the background using the whole stamp pad to make squares in rusty hinge, wild honey, forest moss and crushed olive. Then I dusted the squares with  perfect peals in green, bronze and gold, and heated it to fix it. It gave a lovely shimmer, which you can see better in the second picture.

The tree on the left has been sponged through the waste after cutting the other tree. The die-cut tree has been inked with perfect pearls medium, brushed with perfect pearls, and then clear embossed. I added some berries for a spot of colour. And the hedgehog fitted just nicely into the picture.

At 'Out of a Hat' the theme this week is oriental. I altered biscuit box number two, using a dragon image. The box had first been sprayed with gold, then toned down with spray mist in dark red before cutting the paper to size and gluing it down. I gave it all a couple of coats of clear varnish. The paper is from 7 Gypsies.

And I made two tags. I wasn't satisfied with the first one, hence the second attempt. This one has been distressed and stamped using wild honey and spun sugar, and then overstamped with my Japanese plant, which has also been decorated with some berries.

On the second tag I stamped a yellow sun over a pink square, and then used the same stamp as before, once again with black archival ink. The lady came out of my stash, as did the button. I like this one better than the first one.

And that was all for today. Here's wishing you a all a pleasant day. Take care, and thanks for coming by!