A different kind of life

Hello all.  I hope you are doing well and staying safe.  Thank you so much for your lovely comments on my rusty cogs and gears - I'm glad you liked them.  I mentioned a couple of posts back that tags were mounting up as my mojo has kicked back into gear over the last few weeks, so I'm here with a pair of them today.

There's been an autumnal turn to most of the tags recently, but these are more of a "last of the summer sun" pair - still enjoying the bright greens and sunlight of August.






The main ingredient in my revived mojo has been the arrival of Speckled Egg Distress as a new colour, and it's here in force.















It's combined with some of my favourite greens and also, unusually for me, a touch of Scattered Straw.















There's some background stamping in Archival Olive with my much loved weeds from Rubber Dance's Weed Love set.













And there are also some light-catching insects from Tim's Entomology plate, embossed in Speckled Egg Distress Glaze.













This gives them that now-you-see-them, now-you-don't effect which I love.

The butterflies over the top come from a couple of Tim Holtz sets.















There are some from Papillon, a much older set but still brilliant.  And the smaller Papillon group are joined by a couple of the larger butterflies from the Entomology plate so that the tags have a balanced look.















The Paper Dolls, as usual, had strong opinions about whether they wanted to be involved or not.
















These two were the clear top candidates... they just looked right when I tried them in place.















There's some more background stamping, white-embossed - postmarks and number stamps from the Field Notes stamp set.
















I love the extra lift the tags get from the white details.













And it also matches the embossed words on the acetate strips.  This has become one of my favourite ways to add my quote stamps.













I love how you still get to see everything that's underneath, but still get the words hovering over it all.  These are from the recent EAB19 Life & Living, as well as from one of the oldest sets EAB03 Music & Silence.








I hope you like the summery feel of these, and I hope you're enjoying some of the late summer sun that we're getting here in the Czech Republic at the moment.  I'll be heading back to my full stash in the next week or so, but mainly in order to start packing it up for the permanent move.

But I'm looking forward to doing some playing with it all in between times nonetheless - I'm going to need stress relief through the sorting and packing process!!

For now, I'll love you and leave you, and hope to see you all again soon.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry