Tigers and Tails

 T is for Tigers and Tails

My Tag this week is all about Tigers and Tails . Did you know that some letters have  Tails?  The Tail of a letter is a diagonal line such as the one that comes off the Q or a Y. The descending, often decorative, diagonal stroke on K or R is the Tail.

The descenders on f, g, j, p, q, and y are also called Tails.

On the left side of my Tag is a drawing of a Tiger to go with my calligraphy piece this week, Tiger Tiger burning bright by William Blake.  The stripes of my Tiger were made with a broad nib pen,  tinted with coloured pencils,  On the right side I have  written 'Letters with Tails K Q R f g j p q y', with the word Tails and the various letters written in gold ink.  This doesn’t show up too well in the photo!  To finish it off I have made a Tie with several Tiger coloured Threads.

Thank you for all your sweet comments last week, looking forward to Taking a look at all your T Tags.    

Bye for now,

Love Jane xx

T is for .....

Tree

 In Trellis stitch (trunk)

and Threaded Back stitch (branches)

thank so much for your lovely comments on my Sunflower tag, sorry I'm a bit late in getting back to see everyone else's  I really don't know where the week went, I couldn't believe I missed Tuesday, I stitched my tag on Sunday but hadn't got pictures, I have been quite busy this week, we sold our little caravan that we have been renovating and restyling for the past two years so I've been a bit pre-occupied all week adding finishing touches and a bit sad today too sniff ;( 

T is for.....

Hi everyone, hope you all had a good week. I am in slightly silly mode (must be the weather!) and as I have chosen Tea Tree oil for this week I decided to illustrate it thus!



Well, how else could I do it but with a die cut tree and lots of tea-pots hanging from it! They were the hardest bit as very fiddly to cut, but the background is simples and painted on with distress paints and suggestion of grass in the foreground.

Australian Aborigines long recognised the benefits of the small tree that is similar to a Cypress. I read somewhere once that Australian soldiers were issued with the oil in their knapsacks during the Second World War, but I can't confirm this. However the oil is antibiotic, antiviral, antiseptic and

a fungacide and Insectacide, so it covers a lot of ailments including influenza, colds, cold sores, athletes foot, thrush, cystitis and relieves the itching from chicken pox and insect bites, so would have been a wonderful addition to the soldiers kit. It is also used in many preperations commercially to help acne, impetigo, dandruff and many other skin problems. Bugs don't like the smell and I use a lovely Tea Tree skin cream on my Persian cat Molly, who gets itchy spots in the summer! I  shall enjoy looking at your T's later. Got to admit I'm having nightmares about next week, what on earth can I do for U?! Back to the drawing board, thank you for all your lovely comments last week. x

Letter T

Hi Everyone, I hope you are all keeping safe & well and had a good past week. Thank you very much for the lovely comments on my S tag. You are very kind. 

This week, the T's are in abundance; I hope you will forgive me, most of them really did come about by accident. 

I won't bore you with minutiae but just give you the bones of it all.

Tangerine page, Teal cosmic shimmer, 'Take The Time To Try', Turquoise oil pastel, Tin Tag, Time pieces showing Ten to Two, Inktense Tangerine swirls, Trio of Tyvek beads & Tyvek faux Tie with Turquoise gems

I created this in the journal that I made doing Terri Karhs class in the 21 Secrets on-line workshop, which if you are interested, you can still join. Read all about it here http://www.dirtyfootprints-studio.com/2008/05/21-secrets-art-journal-playground.html

Thank you for looking, take care, and I will see U back here next week with the letter U (hehe) :0) *hugs* Mo xx

TAG TUESDAY

may I say thank you for continuing to post your beautiful tags to the blog ... each and every one is a real work of art!

we are slowly creeping towards the end of the alphabet ... the end is in sight ... and thoughts are beginning to turn to what comes next.  I would welcome comments on this post about what you would like to do next ... should you wish to continue with your weekly tag making ... shall we go back to themes or something else?  If so, perhaps you could suggest themes you might like to work with ... and we will try to fit them in.  I do have plenty of ideas if you would rather go with that (but also want to accommodate you ... if you are itching for a particular topic)

I would also like to take this opportunity to ask if one of you might like to assist me with the running of the blog ... ie. to assist with general housekeeping, keeping things tidy, replying to emails/messages from new people wishing to join the blog or be added to the waiting list ... and also updating the themes and sidebar etc.  Please send me an email if you think you may have a few extra minutes a week to give me a hand with things ... I would very much appreciate that ... for those times when I'm away from home or a bit late updating things

many thanks indeed

Carolyn

email  - charleyarry23@aol.com

Letter T

Here we are at "T" this week.  I chose the very natural actor Spencer Tracy.  I went with a 50s feel, using scrapbook paper mostly.  Thanks to all who leave comments-- nice to read them!  Enjoy your week! 

T is for....

Hi you all!

T is for Tag and Tuesday and Three, so here it is:

One Tag for Tag Tuesday with three mini-tags and three charms.

Have a great week you all, and thanks for visiting!

Valerie

T is for Tenderness

Aaaah, tender young love! I don't think I need to say anything else about the tag really -

I hope you are all having a great week, full of sunshine and happy crafting.

Toodlepip xxx

Letter S

s

is for seeds



i planted some seeds

but the chances of them

growing is slim

Letter "S" is for Sap Green

It's a tag, it's a card, it's a tag-shaped card for Letter S - Sap Green!  I decided I could use a card more than a tag right now, so I combined them into one for this challenge.  I used a variety of sap green hue prints, ink pads, a calligraphy marker, and trimmings, along with a few other color splashes. You can read more about it in my blog.  Blessings!

Letter S

This week is the letter S, 

so I chose Sea Horse.

I made the background for this tag using my 

Spectrum Noir and Metallic Pro Markers. 

I drew the pattern, to try to give a fun stylised sea effect. 

I then cut a number of sea weed shapes 

on my Silhouette Cameo and embossed them with 

WOW Silver Embossing powder. 

I bought the shape from the Silhouette online store. 

I cut it a number of times to give it a more layered effected
on top of the background I had made. 

I then cut the simple cute little Sea Horse out of some 

Bling Bazzill Card stock (again a shape I bought).

Then to finish it off I added some sparkle to the tag. 

I used some blues squares mosaic style pieces on the bottom  

of the tag and on the wing of the Sea Horse

used three little clear stones.

Thanks again for the lovely comments. 

I am so glad I have found this blog. 

Everyone is so friendly and encouraging. 

I have up until now never really made tag's

and now find myself addicted. 

I love looking each week at all the 

different styles and technique's that you 

guys are all using.

So thanks for looking and I can't wait to see 

everyones finished S tag's.

Jules

www.ovcrafts.com

xx

S is for.....

Hi everyone, hasn't the week flown! Here we are on S and I have chosen Sandalwood essental oil this week. It is a lovely oil, one of my favourites, and has a harmonizing and calming effect, which is why it is in much demand as an incense. It is useful for chest complaints as it has a good effect on the mucus membranes of the pulmonary system so is brilliant for bronchitis and asthma and chest infections including sore throats and dry coughs. The other system that is helped by this lovely oil is the urinary tract, so it can be of benefit to cystitis and bladder infections. On the skin it can help to relieve itching and inflammation and is a great anti-ageing componant of skin care.



The best Sandalwood oil comes from India and so I stamped a letter from India on the background and then swooshed it through Rusty Hinge and Antique Bronze distress stain as the oil is a lovely yellow gold colour. Then I coloured in an Indian fan and added jewels. The Elephant is coloured with my inktense pencils and sakura pens and layered on sticky fixers. I stamped Sandalwood onto a lolly stick, cut it to size and edged it with gold paint. I added black swirls of gems and little bronze mother-of-pearl discs to the bottom. The tie is a piece of sari ribbon and I hunted out some matching beads from my stash.

Thank you dear friends for your lovely comments last week, I have to go to work now so shall be back later to enjoy your sessess!! Have a lovely week, hasn't it turned cold! x

S is for......Strange!

Hi fellow taggers.
I have been AWOL again with my strange affliction ( RA) feeling a bit better this week. Hurrah! I have created a Slightly. Strange.  Steampunky kinda tag.
 the background is created with acrylic paint including metallic copper on the back of a piece of mountboard. The girl was cut out of a magazine. Old dress pattern paper was glued over and the eyes cut and revealed, a splosh more white acrylic over the top . Five minutes on the sewing machine.  A bit of perforated card,old watch parts, some other bits of nonsense from previous projects. A rusty thingy I picked up from a pavement and a strand of sari silk yarn. Tah Dah! Who shouted rubbish? I'm off to check you all out see what you have been up to.

Pat x

Letter S

S is for Syzygium ... In my series of Australian plants, this tag is my interpretation of Syzygium smithii which is better known here in Australia as the Common Lilly Pilly. We have one of these Lilly Pilly trees in our garden, an evergreen native small tree with pink/mauve edible berries (mostly used for making jam) . The photo shows some branches from the real tree too, but the berries are well past their prime and have lost of a lot of their colour. The fabric base of the tag is an Aboriginal design called Yalke, after a wild onion plant which is also bush tucker. The leaves are a purchased braid and I made the little berries from polymer clay.
Ooh , it's great to be back with Tag Tuesday ...

S is for Sea-shells, scrolls and spirals

Hello everyone! We are nearing the end of the alphabet so fast; these weeks are just flying by!  I hope my tag this week will remind you of the seaside and take your mind off the rather depressing weather of late!

My tag was inspired by some drawings of shells I found while sorting out my old artwork.

I wanted to write something in a calligraphic Spiral ~ beautiful writing that forms a continuous curve around a central point or axis. Having found my shell drawings, that old tongue-twister ‘She Sells Sea-Shells’ sprang to mind:

She sells sea-shells on the sea shore;

The shells that she sells are sea-shells I'm sure.

So if she sells sea-shells on the sea shore,

I'm sure that the shells are sea-shore shells.

The whole rhyme made rather a large spiral which was difficult to read, so I just used half of it and wrote using spiral guidelines on one side of my shells.  Start reading from the center.

 

Here are the spiral guidelines I use:

To decorate my tag I made a mini scroll.  I wrote on the paper using my scroll nib pen.

Scroll nibs are double pointed nibs which make double lines, they are ideal for decorative writing, shadow writing, borders and lining a mount.

I coloured in some of the letters using coloured pencils then rolled up the paper into a scroll.  I had one broken scroll nib, so bound it onto the scroll with a length of embroidery thread, making a tie to match.

I did some more shadow-writing using the scroll pen to go with the other shells in my Calligraphy Abecedary.

I have had such fun this week for this tag! Thank you for looking, and for all your sweet comments.

Looking forward to seeing all your creations this week,

Bye for now

Jane xx