A Tag for Monday

Hi everyone. Happy new week.

 I have a bit of time before T tonight, and I thought I would share this tag for Wendy's Use Fabric On It challenge at  Tag Tuesday.

The yellow printed material on the bottom of the tag is some fabric. If you look carefully  on the right side you can see the selvage (or selvedge) of the fabric. 

I  recently bought this fabric when out shopping with my daughter a couple of weeks ago.  We stopped at this store called Mardens on our way home from Maine (as this store chain is only found in Maine). Their advertising line is  " I should have bought it, when I saw it, at Mardens."  It's a great jingle because they carry overstocks and  lots of things at really good prices, but there's no guarantee what they will have when you stop in. I hadn't been there in quite awhile, and I'd forgotten they have a huge fabric and notions department. I got a remnant yard of this yellow fabric for $2.29. I thought it would make some great crafting fabric, and sure enough, it does.

I also used a bit of book paper die cut border, some twine and some staples, a scrap of white metallic paper trim as well as some gold flower paper trim. I also added the gold metallic paper rooster, the stamped word and some little plastic sunflowers. Finally I used a paperclay moon face (from a shoebox of things I made one day with a friend about a year ago). I painted the moon yellow, used some brown ink to bring out the details, and also added ink to the eyes.

And there you have it.

I hope you have a wonderful start to your week, and thanks for visiting!

Trees and Waves

Hi everyone. It's a chilly day  with some wind here in New Hampshire. I'm excited for a (hopefully)  me day now that my daughter has gone back to her home and all my week's appointments are over. I'm ready for one.

Today's art is a tag I made for Pinky's challenge at Tag Tuesday. It's all about TREES this time.

I made a page with lots of stamping. I stamped the tree in black and then the various falling leaves in autumn colors.

After that I glued down a piece of printed acetate. On the acetate is a basic drawing of the chemical makeup of DNA. I like the little bit of detail it adds to the piece, as well as giving the tag a bit of a shine.  I finished by stamping  the quote. I thought with all the leaves on my tag, and none of them are attached to the tree, that raking and  the joy of jumping into the leave pile would be perfect. Not that I any longer jump into the leave piles. But you never know... Smile.

Thought I would show you a few photos from one of my walks this week with my daughter. We went to Odiorne State Park one afternoon and walked for a couple of hours. Many New Hampshire State Parks are still limiting attendance and require reservations, which means that during much of our walk we didn't see anyone. And when we did see  people, we could keep a big distance away from them.

Odiorne State Park is on the ocean and also contains a stretch of forest. It is nice to have this ocean front property protected by the state so it can't be developed with large homes.  Especially when New Hampshire only has 18.5 miles (29.7 km) of coastline.

That's all for me.  Hope you are having a great day!