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Hi Everybody!
Hope you are having a good day!

Today is Tuesday, which means a new challenge at Tag Tuesday and at Try it on Tuesday.

 At Tag Tuesday out theme is Text. I made two word-bird tags, using scraps of DP with text to cut the birds, and wrote some sayings around the edge of the first one.
My visitors this afternoon liked the birds, and they have already flown the nest and found new homes.

At Try it on Tuesday our theme for the next two weeks is 'Tic tac toe'.

You can choose any line, horizontal, diagonal or vertical, from the selection and use the elements in your project.

I chose punches, bling and cardboard, although my card would also fit to the line beads, punches and flowers.

I made a 6x6" card with a Valentine theme. The centre part has been made from a tag cut from partly peeled cardboard. The images are from my stash. The patterns down both sides have been punched with a large border punch. I added some beads and a bling heart. The sentiment has been sprayed with paper softener (LaBlanche)  and formed; once it dries, the paper stays in form.

You have two weeks to enter the challenge, and all projects are welcome, so hope to see lots of you joining in!

Today I have some different 'wildlife' photos to show instead of the usual birds and ducks; the ladies in their carnival costumes. The first one shows the whole group. Each one represents a different decade. I made the Charleston dress from Karina and Gabi's wild pink punk outfit, complete with rat. I 'wiped' the faces of the other ladies as I didn't get a chance to ask them if they wanted to be posted. I don't think they would mind, but better safe than sorry! Don't they all look gorgeous?

I made a matching bag and rat for Gabi:

Lovely Luzi wanted to be like Disney's Snow Queen, with a long dress, hooded cape, long gloves, and a bustle at the back of the dress.

Here it was not quite finished, but coming along nicely:

Last changes to the sleeves and belt.

(The colours look a bit darker here because of the electric light)

It was fun making the costumes and doing something different instead of just patching my jeans or sewing cardboard!

Have a great day you all, take care,

and thanks a lot or coming by!