Friday, April 11, 2014

Dragons Dream Tag it On #164

You may, or not, have noticed that I have not been taking part in the tag challenges over at Dragons Dream Tag It On very often of late.

I have struggled with the letter part of the challenges, mainly.  That, combined with putting my time and energy into my exercise/weight loss effort, means that I just haven’t had it in me.

I did actually complete #163 – The letter Z and a face but didn’t get a blog post written in time to link it up.  I will pop a photo in at the end of this post though, just to show what I came up with.

This fortnight May has set the challenge as “The letter S and the Colour Blue.”  Now this one was so much easier.

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I trimmed the bottom off a Prima tag and added some lace and bakers twine.  I used a stamp (no idea what brand it is) that has some sewing pattern references.  I resized and printed off the spool from a Kerri Bradford kit that I have and wrapped it with blue sewing thread.  I added a doily stamped on blue canvas, a blue hat pin and the wee blue rose.  The tape ribbon is from Typo and the zipper pull was floating around on my desk (how fortunate).

 

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As for the non-entered tag …..  I really struggled with this.  A version of my original idea had already been entered and being stubborn (who, me?) I wanted to come with something else.  This is what I eventually made.

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I even had two faces, hehe.  I had fun paper piecing Tilda’s clothes and hair.  I coloured the birds and the giraffe with Gelatos and a water brush.  The stone wall is also stamped and then shaded with Gelatos.

So, there you have it.  Two challenges in one – so to speak.

Cheers,

Esther  xx

10 comments:

  1. I noticed! However, with all the early starts and superhuman efforts I'm sure you are excused. I like both of these.

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  2. Both are great tags Esther, thanks for sharing with us at the Dragons Dream TIO. Elizabeth x

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  3. Two lovely tags! I especially love your sewing one, a great take on the recipe. Thank you for dreaming with the Dragons. Julie Ann xxx

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  4. Your tag is awesome! I love the zipper pull detail. That stamp is great.

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  5. We did miss you... Love the letter S tag now why did I not think of that one... Fantastic... Love your letter Z tag too... the image is beautiful and I love giraffe's...Thank you for dreaming with us at Dragons Dream... Hugs May x x x

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  6. Both of your tags are beautiful. So sorry that you struggled with the "Z" but glad to see, that you created one :) Love the zipper pull on the first one. Thanks for dreaming with us over at Dragons Dream Tag It On again.

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  7. Lovely sewing themed tag, thanks for joining us at Dragon's Dream TIO. Jacqui DT member

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  8. Love the sewing tag and Tilda is pretty cute too!

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