Good things are beginning

Hello all!  It's been a little quiet round here, I know (only on the blog - real life is anything but quiet!), but I couldn't miss a Tag Friday at A Vintage Journey.  It's that extra Friday in the month where the Creative Guides get to play just for fun... as long as it's on a tag (or two).

I'll be packing and flying (Friday and overnight), and then hopefully unpacking (Saturday) by the time many of you read this, and once I'm home I hope to get back in the swing of things again here at Words and Pictures, at least for a while.  For now though, I'll quickly share some details of this pair of tags and then get back to the packing.






I don't really remember very much about what went on in the backgrounds.  I know there's some Distress Ink-ing and some inky stencilling with a brick pattern by the look of things.















The leafy stems are embossed in (probably) Wow Vanilla White.
















And I've used one of my quote stamps to create some text detail hovering in the distance.













The Paper Dolls are always a delight to play with - they tell me stories as I go.  I love the contrasting attitudes of these two...














The boy is all open smiles, ready for anything that life wants to throw at him.













The girl knows that, as a female, she may have to fight that little bit harder to get her share of the good things - but just look at that determined expression.














I layered up gessoed book page scraps, messy cotton thread, and some Idea-ology ephemera behind them...















... this large label being cut in two so that each child could have half of it.  Fair's fair...














Some dark washi tape provides firm ground for them to stand on.













And you'll see that eventually I layered the tags onto some white card to give them a contrasting frame.














The stitched borders are stamped rather than real - still waiting for space/time to work with the tiny sewing machine I have stashed away - but I think they look pretty cool.














The Idea-ology word stickers seemed appropriate when I was just at the start of this latest production process here in New York... all about things beginning and adventures in store.












Now that I'm about to get on a plane home, they can refer instead to the upcoming set of adventures of shifting that home across a continent!













The ribbons at the top were cut out of the neckline of a cardigan - who hangs cardigans on a hanger anyway?  Waste not, want not... here they are topping off the tags.

These tags look a little un-me to me... it's all that black, not a colour I work with much, preferring my vintage browns.  But maybe the slightly grungier look is fun for a change.








Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you'll hop over to A Vintage Journey and see the fun and games my fellow Creative Guides have been having for Tag Friday, and you're very welcome to share any tags you've been making this month in our Linky collection.  See you there!

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller