Alpha tags E, F & G

I can't believe the month has passed again and it's time for me to share the latest batch of tags I sent in for the alpha tag swap. I have been overly preoccupied with some pending hospital treatment for my OH which was happening this week, and as a result I seemed to struggle with this batch of tags. Thankfully the treatment went very well and got the planned result pretty easily, so I have been able to relax a bit in my days off this week.

So onto my tags. The E tags to start! This was my first attempt, using the Chocolate Baroque Baroque Eggs stamps.

I coloured the egg with coloured pencils, mainly Inktense and added some highlights with Coloursoft pencils. I then covered the whole egg with a thick glaze. The background is made from embossed pale green pearlescent vellum. Disaster struck when the dried glazed egg warped and I managed to crack it when I tried to stick it down! So, I had to make a mark 2!

This time I embossed the egg in green EP and added ambossed flourishes around the edge in pearlescent powder, I added colours with various Adirondack dye inks and highlights with a white pen.

My F tag is on the theme of ferns. I used a large fern from the Chocolate Baroque Wild Meadow set, a small fern from Mini Meadow and the fern butterfly from the Crafty Individuals Elements set of butterflies.

I stamped in green versafine ink and added shading in Adirondack dye inks.I added some smaller ferns in a Jenny Bowlin Brown Sugar ink. I used Flitter Glu to stamp a couple more ferns and added gold leaf. The butterflies were embossed in a copper EP into green pearlescent vellum and cut out and decoupaged onto the tag.

Finally I chose the theme of grass for my G tag.

This is a simple one layer design. I just masked a sun and stamped various Chocolate Baroque grass stamps from a couple of different sets in black Versafine. I added butterflies from the same Crafty Individuals set I had used on the fern tag and a bird from a small Artemio set stocked by CB. I added shading with Adirondack dye and Distress Inks. Finally to finish off I added a dusting of gold pearlex powder around the edges.

I already have my plans in place for my H and I tags. Fingers crossed they go a little more smoothly!

Have a great weekend.

Elaine