LOVE TO CRAFT - ANYTHING GOES

Welcome back to another Love to Craft - and we look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations. 

It's another tag from me - I was lucky to win a set of Tag Dies from Brenda's new Tag Challenge so I just have to put them to good use.

It's another play with the gel press for me for this tag and the background was created with an Aallandcreate Stencil - this was the residue of ink left on the stencil after the press on the gel press and just stamped off onto to some extra paper so as not to lose the ink.  You can just see the faint blue marks.  I then added some background stamping and the star of the show - the poppy stamps - are from Tracy Evans - one of her old sets.  Alison Bomber of W0rdsandp1ctures has inspired me to use real flowers on my work so these poppy seeds are from the Welsh poppies in my garden.  

As well as gluing them on I fixed them with some twine and a touch of linen which has been stapled.  I then added the word Nature to hide the staples.  I added a butterfly which had been created out of a mood board - a play time of adding stamping and colours and then cutting out shapes - great fun. The sentiment came from Tim Holtz Ideaology snippets book.

I'm adding this into the following

A place to Start - Leaves and Circles

Aud Sentiments - TAG  

A cut Above - Die cut tag and butterfly 

LOVE TO CRAFT - #85 MEET MABEL

It's time for another challenge at Love to Craft. Our theme is always Anything Goes and we look forward to seeing what you show us.  Our Challenges start on the 1st of every alternate month at 9 a.m. UK time and end at 12 noon on the 15th of the following month.

I have chosen to do a tag for this challenge. Most of the products used on here are Tim Holtz using some of his collage papers in the background as well as stamping and some extra pieces of Ideaology, including a paper doll and I'm calling her Mabel.   She was coloured in with some of Tim Holtz Distress Crayons to add a bit of colour to her outfit.

I would really love to add some stitching to my tags but I don't have a sewing machine and wouldn't really know what to do with one if I did - so I did it the long way round and poked some holes in the side of the tag and added some twine through them.  

I'm adding this into the following:

Sweet Stampin - special women 

A perfect time to craft - AG 

Crafts Galore - AG 

Lost Coast Portal - Women 

LOVE TO CRAFT CHALLENGE - JANUARY 2025

I'm delighted to be on the design team for Love to Craft Challenge for January 2025.  What a great way to start the year.  In case you haven't played with us before we are an Anything Goes challenge and not just cards and we are also every other month so plenty of time for you to join in. 

As with my previous post - please bear with me as I'm still in Christmas mode and wanted to share this Santa card made with Tim Holtz products.  This is just the quintessential Father Christmas in my mind and Tim Holtz has captured him just perfectly.   I let the stamp have pride of place with some gentle background stamping of foliage behind him and the lovely smattering of stars above.  The Santa was coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Inks.