Tuesday, 20 September 2022

New Challenge at TIOT

Hi Everybody!

Today we are starting a new challenge at TIOT and our theme is
EMBOSSING.
As usual you can use any medium you choose, as long as you follow the challenge theme.
 I made 2 mixed media tags and the flowers were embossed with structure paste through a stencil. I did a lot of sewing on the tags, my machine has been repaired! The sentiments are from Tim Holz:


If you put them together it looks almost like one piece!


As always you have 2 weeks to link to us and
We are looking forward to seeing what you make!

And we are also starting a new challenge at Tag Tuesday. This time our lovely and talented Pinky is hosting and her theme is books/ bookpages. Pinky has made some wonderful tags for ispiration, do take a look, and I hope to see you joining in! This is my tag:



Some thinkies / funnies





Have a great day, take care,
and thanks a lot for coming by!

46 comments:

  1. Beautiful embossing Valerie. These 2 pieces came out great and I like all the texture between the embossing and the stitching. Hugs-Erika

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  2. Lovely embossing, Valerie. I love how the two go so well together. And of course, sewing is the real magic on these tags. They are fabulous.

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    1. Thanks Elizabeth. I was so happy to be able to do some sewing again. Hugs!

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  3. Lovely pages and enjoyed the thinkies

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  4. Hi Val, good morning! Hope you are feeling a bit better today, I'm sorry you were so ill at the weekend. Hope this week goes better for you. We had a quiet weekend, which I enoyed, the kids were all with Leah, so I was able to read and put my weary feet up! Hugs, Sarah

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    1. Glad you had a quiet weekend, I'm sure you needed it! Hugs to all!

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  5. Your tags are lovely, Valerie. They would make very attractive bookmarks. Miriam has made quite a few over the years, mostly as gifts for friends, and some of them are little works of art. Naturally I have a few too. At the last Christmas before COVID she sold them at the meeting of our nature club and donated the funds to the club, and did quite well. People still appreciate homemade items as a counterbalance to all the cheap dross coming in from China. When I buy secondhand books I quite often find a bookmark in them, or old receipts from items purchased, sometimes for the book itself. A historian would love it! Today I will be leading my regular Tuesday group on a walk through the woodlands in search of migrants. It won't be long before the neotropic migrants will all have departed, with northern species moving in here for the winter. The temperature is still in the mid twenties which is ridiculous for late September. Have a great week. Hugs and kisses - David

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    1. Thanks David! I love handmade things, too, so much better than all of those cheap and soulless pieces being poured into our lives. I still have the lovely bookmark you and Miriam sent me, and I love it!. Had a bad weekend here, I was very sick again with a high temperature. Feel better today but need to take things a bit more slowly in the next few days. I have a little scrapbook full of the items found in books, such fun to find them. Have fun on your wandering today, hope you find the birds you want to see. Have a great, new week, BIG hugs, Valerie

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  6. Beautiful pieces! The EP flowers look amazing against the background, loving the white on the colours they really pop 😊. Fabulous funnies too! Happy wishes! Hugs Jo x

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    1. Thanks so much, Jo. Have a great day, take care!

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  7. Your two tags make a lovely diptych. Have a great week. Deb

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    1. Thanks Jo, glad you like them! Have a great week, take care! Hugs

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  8. Beautiful tags. The color combination is so pretty. The prismatic sky picture is awesome, but you had me with the black cat.

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    1. Thanks CJ! The photo with the black cat is really wonderful. I still miss my black Kitty, she was a great companion!

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  9. Lovely tags Valerie, I do like the stencil you've used and I love all the detail on the book page tag. Loved the photo of the black cat, so cute.
    Avril xx

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    1. Thanks Avril! The stencil was a €1 piece from the €1 shop, and was a very good buy! That black cat is so cute, it's a lovely photo! Hugs!

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  10. Love your art and the thinkies are great. Hope your week is grand!

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  11. beautiful embossing and i love love love your book pages tag! xo

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    1. Thanks Michele, book pages is a wonderful theme!

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  12. All of the tags are gorgeous. The first two are really striking. The thinkies/funnies gring on the smiles.

    Love, Hugs and Blessings

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    1. Thanks Jim, glad you like them. Have a great week 😌

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  13. So many wonders today. Love your header. The chicken are gorgeous. Your tags are amazing. Love flowers and reading. You covered both:) And the memes are great, especially the geese against the northern lights.
    Hope your day is as fabulous as you.
    Hugs

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  14. Oh Valerie these are so beautiful. I hope you are feeling better. It sometimes is tough staying healthy. Much love.

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  15. Thanks Nicole,we both know it is tough!

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  16. Beautiful tags Valerie, those first two look good together and would make a super piece of wall art.
    Yvonne xx

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  17. Beautiful embossing on your tags Valerie and I love the stencil, and then the little girl reading her books, just lovely..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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    1. Thanks Chrissy, much appreciated 👍 my friend!

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  18. WoW great embossing! They look beautiful (especially little girl with her book is perfect). Thanks. Have a wonderful day.

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  19. Lovely embossing with the sewing, and a great tag, love them. Hope you are OK, hugs Wendy.

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    1. Thanks wendy! Still struggling healthwise, it can only get better! Hugs!

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  20. Gorgeous creations!! Thank you for having me as a guest designer at Try It on Tuesday!
    Diane {Nellies Nest}

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    1. Thanks so much Diane. Hope to see more of your creations at TIOT.

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  21. Beautiful tags! I especially like your tag for the Books/Book Pages Challenge - it's just darling! : )

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  22. A beautiful Tag, love the child reading a book, reminded me of my grandsons, all of them love books, carried on now with my great grand kids. Hope you are keeping well Valerie. xx

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    1. Happy to hear that your grandsons love reading! Hugs!

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  23. Wow!!! Awesome art and thinkies
    Happy Tuesday Valerie

    Much💛love

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  24. Gorgeous artwork today Valerie and I love the tag you made for my challenge. Keep well, hugs Pinky

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