This is another effort at Tag Art for the challenge I mentioned yesterday.
For this one, I stamped the tag with a background stamp from Just for Fun, using the Tuscan Earth chalk ink from Fresco.
The green card stock is stamped with one of the images from Creative Block #9 from Stampers Anonymous using one of my favorite colors, Artprint Brown from Memories. I also went around the edges of the tag and the square using the direct to paper method.
The trim at the bottom is actually several square, silver beads strung on silver wire, with a silver ampersand charm added. I wrapped the whole thing around the tag and glued the wire down at the back, holding it in place with a strip of scrap card stock.
At the top of the tag, I punched a hole and added some brown ribbon, then set in a brown eyelet. The eyelet didn’t end up exactly where I wanted it, but it isn’t too bad where it is.
Now I have to get over the idea that anything I make has to have a practical purpose. I usually think that my tags and other embellishments have to end up on a card or scrapbook layout, for example. I am trying to accept the idea that it is okay for me to create art for its own sake.
I wonder if anyone else struggles with this issue.
