Y and Z tags - the challenge had finished!

Well, each month over the last year I have posted my tags for the A - Z tag swap we have been doing over at the Chocolate Baroque forum. It has been quite a struggle to get them done, but I am finally there, along with about 28 others in the group.

Here is my Y tag:

My theme was a Year of Tags. Now I love these weeny little tags, so what I did was colour 26 of the little things with different colour DIs. Then I overstamped with a flourish stamp using DIs again. I cheated rather with the letters and actually used peel offs. These are a rather nice art deco style, so I hope they don't look too tacky, well only in the adhesive sense! I then fixed them all on using metallic brads.

This is my Z tag.

 

My theme is Zentangle and I used the Tangled Garden set of Chocolate Baroque stamps.

I stamped the flowers in black archival ink and then infilled masking leaves from the set, adding that stamping in grey. I added highlights to the design using a red Promarker and then added various gems and some glazing and little blobs of black pva to add some texture to the flower centres.

Well, I am glad I took part, but I am opting out of challenges for a while to give me time to play as I mentioned in my last post. If I get myself organised I will try and work out how to do a mosaic of all my tags as I would like to see them side by side.

Hope wherever you are the wintery weather isn't disrupting your life too much. I am hoping to get up to the craft show at Sandown Park on Thursday, so I am really hoping that the weather doesn't put a stop to those plans.

Keep warm and cosy!

Elaine