More Christmas Tags

I can't help it, I love making tags. I love the whole process of choosing the images, then finding the right paper for the backgrounds, laces and ribbons which are not too wide and not too narrow, and sweet little embellishments, usually bling, lol. Thats why I never get much done, sigh, I spend so much time fondling lace, and picking through embellishments.

But here are four more, and again, I'd love to hear which one is your favourite.


I used some lovely vintage metallic lace fabric on these.





Toodlepip xxx

White Wednesday

Earlier this afternoon, we were sitting in our drawing room, when all of a sudden the room was bathed in beautiful soft sunlight. After yesterday's very grey and dismal weather, this was such a beautiful moment, and I managed to capture those few minutes in a few photographs.

This gorgeous German vase was a wedding present to us 30 years ago, and I love its timeless look and elegance. The sunshine which burst through the half drawn curtain lit the vase up and threw a sharp shadow on the wall behind it. I loved that moment so much, that I picked this vase for this week's White Wednesday over at the Faded Charm blog -


The strong light produced some intense contrasts, the room is normally very light, with very light pink walls, nothing like these pics might suggest.

Have a look at the Faded Charm blog for fabulous Whiteness. Make sure you have a cup of tea of coffee, lol, there is so much to see.

I was going to post pics of more completed Christmas tags on here as well, but I think I will do a separate post for those after all.

So, toodlepip for just a little while, I'll be back in a jiffy with the Christmas tags!

I have started!

Yep, I did kinda surprise myself as well, but I have started on Christmas stuff. In a fairly gentle way, lol, nothing too big, complicated or time consuming yet. Just some Christmas Tags. But before I show you the tags I made yesterday, I want to show you something which arrived in the post on Saturday.

I was thrilled to bits when I found out that I had won one of Laura's absolutely stunning ATCs during her month long October Trick or Treat event on her blog Artfully Musing. She really is the most incredible artist, have a look at her blog, and you will be absolutely gobsmacked by her creations, and not just ATCs.

This is the fab Halloween ATC I received -





Even the back is so beautifully done -


Pretty darned good ATC, don't you think?

And here are some of the tags I made yesterday. Three in fairly neutral, muted colours -





And a couple with bright colour accents, Christmas colours, of course, ruby reds and forest greens -


The green one -

The red one -

I'd love to hear which one is your favourite.

Thats all, folks, gotta get back to making more tags :-). Toodlepip xxx

PINK SATURDAY

I haven't been to any vide greniers or boot fairs in ages, so I had no new pink acquisitions to show you. But........ I had a look through my collection of mostly Victorian cards and found some beautiful pink roses to show you! They are 19th Century Christmas and New Year cards, and it does seem strange to me today that they used summer flowers etc for their cards and not Santas or Angels or nativity scenes.

Here they are -

And while I was in a pink frame of mind, I made a little tag as well. This one is special to me for reason - almost two years ago, my wonderful bloggy friend and gifted artist Diane from Diane Knott's Musings sent me a little pressie. I had just started making very basic tags and had great admiration for her tags, so she sent me one along with a tag making kit. I had kept this kit all this time, not wanting to use it all up, but I finally decided that sooner or later I would make a display with all my own tags, and I very much wanted a tag made from her kit to be part of that display.

Do you remember some of the bits on this tag, Diane? -

I had to scan the tag in, because it was too dark to take photographs.

If you want to immerse yourself in more pinkness, hop over to How Sweet The Sound!

Happy Pink Saturday! Toodlepip xxx

Every Inchie Monday - GRAFFITI and news of a fab giveaway

I finally got round to making my little inchie for Every Inchie Monday last night. I wanted to photograph it this morning in daylight, because I dislike flash intensely. Of course I forgot. So now you are going to be presented with 2 rather crappy pics of my inchie, taken with flash, sigh.

There is a fun little story attached to this inchie though. When I looked up the theme for this week on Monday, and saw that it was Graffiti, I wanted to find a cool font to make the inchie with. I looked at loads and finally found some which I thought suitable, but................. neither myself nor my son could download them for some weird reason. So the inchie got put on the backburner for a couple of days. I knew that I wanted to use my son's nickname for me on the inchie in graffiti, but that was as far as I got with the plans.

Yesterday evening after dinner, I came upstairs to find my son sitting at my desk, with a big grin on his face, and a very colourful graphic on my computer - yes, this one! You see, he often leaves me fancy messages with my nickname on the computer, just for fun, and he had done it again. He had no idea that I wanted to use my nickname, ahem, SHORTY, on the inchie, he had just done his usual lets-get-Shorty-narked bit, lol, and used my Hippie font, but it was perfect for my inchie! And all I had to do was shrink it, lol.

There you go, my no work, no worries GRAFFITI inchie for this week.

Now you know that short posts are not really my thing, and a few sentences and two pics is just not enough. So what is a girl to do? Post news of a fabulous new giveaway, of course!

You all know Lynn of Trash to Treasure Art, don't you, and this lovely lady is celebrating her 3rd Blogaversary with a not-to-be-missed giveaway. You can check it out HERE, but I am going to show you a couple of pics anyway -


There is more still, but you go and check it out for yourselves! I am so hoping that I will be a winner. Fingers crossed.

Have a great weekend! Toodlepip xxx

New technique

A couple of days ago, I saw a great tutorial by Mary Green of Green Paper on the Gingersnap Creations blog, for creating rather interesting backgrounds on ATCs.

I didn't have any blank ATCs to hand, but I so wanted to try her technique. I did have lots of blank tags though...... :-)

Have a look at her fabulous tutorial before you have a look at my effort. I am not quite in her league, lol. But, here you go, my first try, I am hoping that I will improve when I make a few more of these.

This is what the background looked like before the main image went on -


And this is it with the main image added and a few stamped bits to add a little bit more interest -


I think this technique really works well, even though this is not exactly a masterpiece. I need more practice, good excuse to make a few more, lol.

And while I had the blank tags out, I started making a few Christmas tags. Scary how close the holiday season is and how quickly it creeps up on ya. I gotta get my act together if I want to get everthing on my to-do list done in time.

This is one of the little tags -


The sweet little cherub was an image from Karla's Romantic White Christmas workshop last year. I just coloured it a little with a silver ink Gelly Roll pen and a light blue Promarker. Simple music sheetbackground and a little Merry Christmas tag, and that was about it. Just had to be true to self and add a teeny bit of bling, lol.

I also finally got round to making this week's inchie. There is a bit of a story to go with this one, so I'll leave that for tomorrow. For now, I wish you all a lovely day/evening.

Toodlepip xxx

WHITE WEDNESDAY and a couple of lovely surprises

It is time for another WHITE WEDNESDAY post again. I was looking through my bits and pieces to see what I could show today, and I thought I'd show this fabulous Wedgwood jug. I know I posted some pics of this a year ago, when I first bought it, but even if you saw it then, you have probably forgotten about it by now, lol, and I wasn't participating in White Wednesday then.


I love this jug because it has the most fabulous dog shaped handle, and it reminds me so much of our beautiful Hector ( Rhodesian Ridgeback ).


I also adore the magnificent scenes on the jug.


Isn't it a beauty? Even the little chip on the rim doesn't do anything to lessen its charm and appeal.

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I also want to show you a couple of things my very nice postman brought me. A little while ago, I had a giveaway on my blog, and Lynne of Adorn, and Lynn of Trash to Treasure Art were both winners. And both lovely ladies sent me a gift!

From Lynne I received this gorgeous card, which now resides on the mantle piece behind my computer with lots of other pressies from bloggy friends -


Thank you, Lynne, for such a lovely gesture.

And from Lynn I received a much anticipated package. She told me that it was on the way, and you know what does to you, don't you? I love looking forward to mail. This is what arrived -


A sweet little box with.......... oooh, I love unwrapping gifts with all of you -


no, not a mummy, but this -


A fabulous soldered pendant! I am over the moon with it.


Thank you so much, Lynn, for this spooktastic charm! It has also joined the other gifts from bloggy friends, on the wall behind the computer. That way, I see these beautiful things every day.

I am linking this post to the WHITE WEDNESDAY link party over at the fabulous FADED CHARM blog. Go immerse yourself in wonderful whiteness!