Q and R tags

The letters in our alphabet tags are getting so much harder! Here is my latest batch. I was going to do Queen for a A Day for Q, but didn't have a suitable person stamp from Chocolate Baroque to use, so my OH and I sat pondering other themes. We came up with Quattro Stagioni as the Four Seasons by Vivaldi is one of my favourite pieces of classical music, especially if played by Nigel Kennedy! I think my resulting tag is a little weird!

I used some Tim Holtz music paper as my background and added a an embossed violin image. I then stamped a tree image across four tiles of stampbord. I added a little vintage photo ink to make them match the background a little better and then added flowers and leaves from the Arboretum tree stamp set. I used Brilliance and Versamagic chalk inks to make the images quite dense Lastly I added some matching stickles which virtually obliterated the tree, so it may not be obvious what I was trying to do. They may have become abstract pictures! The final touch was some music ribbon.

My R tag has a Rabbit theme. Everyone who knows me, knows how much I love bunnies. This is from the spring themed stamps. I added grasses from the Eastern Grasses set and then embossed the images in a black gold metallic EP. I added ink shading in die inks and some red mica powder around the edges. I embossed the moth in a rusty EP with more ink shading and added that on foam tape. This tag was finished with some black lace.

Only 8 tags to go now, this has been a real marathon, but no one in the group of 28 in the swap has given up, although many people have had all sorts of pressures and distractions Well done ladies!

Elaine x