Wonderful Women

Hello all.  I hope you're all doing okay.  I'm delighted to be putting in an appearance over at Try It On Tuesday today for their brand new challenge theme Lovely Ladies.

I've created another tag using dried lavender stems.  It features not only a fabulously feisty suffragette (she is in my head anyway), but also the colours of the suffragette movement - green, white and violet - Give Women the Vote.

And the quote is from one of my own sets, and has words of wisdom from another wonderful woman, Teresa of Avila, a sixteenth century nun, mystic, reformer and respected author and theologian.

Short of being royalty or an actual Lady (that is to say an aristocratic one), the church was one of the only places a sixteenth century woman could achieve real power and influence.

So altogether the tag is pretty keen to celebrate wonderful women from all centuries.











I've nothing much in the way of process photos today, I'm afraid.

For some reason I seem to have forgotten to take any after this very early shot of the Tim Holtz paper I stuck on to my tag, with its wash of gesso softening and warming the colour.













But there are plenty of close-ups so that you can see what's going on.

There's half of a Tando chipboard clock tucked away in there, crackled with DecoArt chalk paints.















The Rubber Dance Weed Love tendrils are winding their way around the edges, stamped in Olive Archival.
















And some cheesecloth (I think it's actually some of Tim's Mummy Cloth) torn to tatters adds soft texture and movement.














There are those lavender stems of course - altered with a touch of Fresco paint in Lavender and Forget-me-not again.  (Check out The flowers appear on the earth for full details on that process.)











And here's that wonderful woman, full of spirit and strength, ready to fight for what she believes in.















There's a tiny hint of Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide tinting her dress in places - just a little echo of the purple tones of the lavender itself.















The butterfly was actually a fairly last-minute addition - he's one of the Tim Holtz Entomology insects, embossed in Primary Bark by Wow and cut with the corresponding Thinlits die.











There seem to be a lot of butterflies perched for take-off on my projects at the moment... some pretty obvious subtext there for anyone who knows about my (currently delayed) house move (though to be honest I've only just worked it out myself!).











I'm very happy with my dimensional sentiment!

I wanted to allow space for the lavender stems and the Paper Doll, mounted on padded tape, so I took a cue from what I did with the crackled picket fence on the previous lavender tag... introduced a curve.











It's embossed in Vanilla White over a combination of Lawn and Beanstalk Fresco paints.

I always include at least one quote by a woman on my word collections - that's really important to me.










It's fastened in place with a couple of Idea-ology fasteners, and the same paint colours form a frame around the edge.

It was originally plain kraft card (as you can see if you look closely at the quote), but I decided I needed some more prominent greens going on.












I think I may even have used them on the stems of the lavender too, to freshen them up!














At the top, there's a metal compass - this woman knows exactly where she is going on her journey - and some fine twine looped several times to create a topping with energy and movement.










I hope you like my tag celebrating wonderful women and that you'll be inspired to join in with the Lovely Ladies theme over at Try It On Tuesday.  Of course, there's lots more inspiration from the fabulous team there to enjoy too.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Stay safe, stay well everyone, and I'll see you again soon.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

What would men be without women?  Scarce, sir... mighty scarce.
Mark Twain