A journey of your own

Hello all and welcome to another round of Tag Friday over at A Vintage Journey.

It's that extra Friday in a challenge month when the Creative Guides get to play with tags, and you can share any tags you've been making this month with us in our Linky Party.

There's no other theme or requirement... just a tag.  And it doesn't matter when you made it, just any time in the last month.

Here's mine.  As you probably know, I've not been making much lately, so this was a good push to get me going again (hopefully!).
















It's a mop-up tag I used to smoosh up the leftover inks when I was making the flowers and twilit sky for Sunrise, Sunset.

There's Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Rusty Hinge, Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs in the mix as well as tiny touches of Faded Jeans and Stormy Sky.













As I did with the wallflowers in my cottage book cover, I added some extra Stormy Sky for a touch of contrast, and stamped one of my favourite "weeds" from Rubber Dance's Weed Love set.

Then it was mostly a question of gathering up other leftovers - scraps and bits and bobs which have been lying around the craft table for far too long.












I put down several strips of design tape and tissue tape and scraped some DecoArt Crackle Paint across it.












Then over that I layered some scraps of lace which have been hovering around for a while, as well as some leftover handmade paper scraps which were also cluttering up the workspace.

The long strip is actually lace on its own sticky tape so you don't even need any glue.












I mounted the Photobooth photo on some scraps of card so that there would be room to wrap the rusty wire around behind her.  This girl has been hanging around on the desk for at least a few months.











She's left behind her "partner" - the two of them were originally going to feature together on a pair of tags a while ago before I changed direction with those tags.

(It was my Birthday Bubbles for Simon Says Stamp - there's even a picture in the post of the pair of them trying to claim their place before being discarded - so they've been waiting to be used since July, and now one of them will have to wait on alone!)











I find that I can make my peace with shades of pink as long as I've got some nice rust to go along with it (it's happened before!) so, as well as the Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo inks, the rusty wire was definitely an important ingredient here.














The tiny autumn leaves also bring a welcome touch of earthy brown to the mix.














They're punched with a Tim Holtz punch, and have been putting in regular appearances this year on my autumn creations.















I think we may finally have come to the end of the punched leaves I can manage to squeeze out of the card I inked up at the beginning of October!













I picked up these lovely dewdrop embellishments as part of my lucky SSS prize win recently, and I'm so happy I chose them.














Regulars here know that I love to catch light in my creations whenever possible, and these do that in a wonderful way.














The brilliant Idea-ology Clippings stickers provide the words.














I've slightly snipped and amended them to suit my purposes... or rather the purposes of the girl in the photo.














I love the confident glow of expectation in her eyes, and I definitely wish her well on the journey ahead.














A little rustic twine finishes things off at the top of the tag - again a snippet which has been hanging around (but then there's always plenty of twine around!).














There's just a touch of the crackle still visible, but it does add a nice extra textural detail I think.















Quite a few of the vine tendrils have disappeared under the layers but what you can see makes me happy.














And the same applies to the smooshed ink around the collaging.  I never tire of ink splotches!













I hope you've enjoyed collecting leftovers with me.  I'm glad I managed to sit down and make something for the first time in two weeks... even if it is just a gathering up of what was already on the craft table!  (I don't count sticking down the pages of my Orchard Fruit art journalling, given it was all basically done before I got ill.)









Over at A Vintage Journey you can see what fun my fellow Creative Guides have been having with their tags, and there's a Linky for you to share any and all tags you've been making this month.  Come and join in the Tag Friday fun with us!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you again soon.

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
Julian Baggini

I'd like to play along at the Funkie Junkie Boutique Blog where they are looking for Lovely Leaves
The challenge theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is Tape It Up - I promise there's tissue tape, design tape and lace tape buried under there somewhere!
In a happy piece of timing the challenge at Moo Mania & More this week is to Use Your Scraps
At the Bleeding Art Challenge as always Anything Mixed Media Goes