Tag Tuesday

I don't think I told you that I had joined Tag Tuesday hosted by the lovely Carolyn from Love

Stitching Red

Here are my tags for Hearts (the top one) and Valentines Day. The top one was made using a small bought tag, which i covered with a faded rose pattern fabric, a pale green fabric and a dusky pink scrap. I heated some gold organza till it shrivelled slightly and added a small piece of vintage lace. I'd glued the first piece down then I stitched the rest with some simple cross stitches. I sewed the beads on then I singed the edges of the tag to give it an aged appearance and then added the ribbon bow and tie.

This one was a bigger tag which I made myself from the middle of a toilet roll, I managed to cut three nice sized tags from one roll and I have plenty made ready! Obviously you have to flatten the rolls before cutting, I just sprayed them with water , ironed them flat and left them under some heavy books. This tag started also with a vintage rose fabric glued on, then I added some scraps of red fabric, one of which is quite sparkly. I had some dried rose petals from the garden last year, I thought I could use those so I stitched them down under some fine net . I also have a little box of handmade beads that I made last year so a pink one found its way on to this tag along with some commercial little beads. I stamped a piece of calico ' roses are red' and stitched that down and added some little red french knots. I made a tassle from a variety of threads and added some beads to that. Voila!

I am having great fun making these and have already started on next weeks!

Hope you're all having a wonderful creative week

xxx