You can never have too much of a good thing.

Five months since I last blogged, I cannot believe it!
I have been scrapping though and thoroughly enjoying being a part of the Tag Swap on UKS.
Making tags adds a whole new dimension to my scrapping as it allows me to mess around with paint, gesso, stencils and what not.
It challenges me and that's a good thing.
It also means I spend way too much time on Pinterest and YouTube!
But that's also a good thing because that's where I learn stuff.
Last month's theme "Hearts" made me try my hand at embossing for the first time, there are so many tutorials on YouTube my head was spinning.

I liked the end result.

This months theme is "Arrows".
Pinterest was my inspiration for a Project Life style tag, using PL cards that I've had for ages and never got around to using.

Another good thing.

Halloween tags

The theme for this month's tag swap

 hosted by Jill is.........................you've guessed?

Halloween!!

The swap has already happened

 and I have received 3 spookily gorgeous tags

 from 3 very talented scrappers.

(I hope they are as happy with one of these as I am with theirs.)

 

Woo Hoo!!

Tag Swap September - News print

The theme for the September Tag swap is news print so I tore up some old, really old probably antique (shame on me!), pages from a French school text book that I discovered at a local flea market a couple of years ago.

I gesso'd the strips to some kraft card stock and applied blue & white paint randomly using a scrunched up plastic bag.
Then layered on a strip of blue kraft cs with a light coating of gesso and another strip from the book page which I'd crackle glazed using white acrylic paint and glue, a technique picked up from youtube!
A final layer of another thin strip of book page topped by 3 blue & white painted butterflies and a piece of antique french lace, et voila, fini!

Tag Swap August 2015 "TRAVEL"

The theme for the tag swap on UK Scrappers this month is "TRAVEL".

I've been itching to use some of my Tim Holtz idea-ology 

"Expedition" ephemera, papers and metal word bands.

They've been sitting in my stash for way too long 

waiting for the perfect project.

I think this was it.

bon weekend!