Alpha tags H and I

Well it's that time again when the tags for the Chocolate Baroque Guild Alpha Tags swap arrive through our letterboxes. Today I received lovely tags from Paula and Rebecca, Here are the two I made, I know I has ended up with Joyce, but I don't know yet where H has landed! It is always nice to know where our painstaking work finds a home.

My H tag is for home. This was a bit of a cheat really as it repeats the design I did for a card a while back. However, the size was perfect and I enjoyed making it as much second time round as the first time!  I used Eclipse tape cut into segments to ink and shade the sunburst in dye inks. I stamped cottages, trees and bushes from the Chocolate Baroque Home Sweet Home set and shaded them with Promarkers. I cut all these out and decoupaged onto the background.

My I tag used the main iris image from the Elegant Iris set fromChocolate Baroque.

I coloured the iris image with Promarkers and added shading with Coloursoft pencils. I used a Versamark pen to add clear embossing over the coloured image and then added ink shading using Parchment ecogreen dye ink over the whole background and shaded the edges with Victorian Velvet and Purple Concord Distress Inks. I think I added the tiniest hint of Eggplant Adirondack around the very edges. It is one of my favourite colours for adding depth to shading.

These two came together quite well. I suspect the next two will be a rush though as I have stacks of crafting projects in the pipeline at the moment and lots of deadlines.

Thanks for looking in

Elaine