Found Objects

My found object for this week's challenge is a piece of solder that I think looks like a leaf.  I surrounded it with tin foil flowers and beads and pearls all mounted on a cut out, stamped, heat and dry embossed background.  More detail on my blog http://paulaexuk.blogspot.com/2012/05/something-found.html

Hope you like it, off to look at the wonderful creations this week.

Found Objects~TIME

Time

What to do?  What to do?  Just couldn't make up my mind as I gardened and found pieces of glass.  Picked up a weathered penny under my car.  Collected feathers around my bird feeder and found a piece of birch bark gifted to me from the Paper Birch in my yard.  Rescued a ticket found at a concert from my coat pocket.  So what?

Then I happened to look in a sack of "good stuff" I recently purchased a a store called "Scaps".  All recycled stuff, odds and ends, perfect for doing collage.  I found the clock parts package and the rest is history.  I used scraps of watch advertising, attached the clock hands, put the glass, feather, birch bark and ticket in the little compartment.  Added the penny at the top and stamped TIME.  Which immediately brought to mind a favorite riddle from The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien.  It's Gollum asking poor Bilbo riddles in the dark.



Back of tag.

So, that's the way it goes with creativity... it just happens.  Hugs
Beth



Found objects

Today I wanted to take a minute to describe my tag today, I am new in the altered art world and am constantly learning new things and what works and what doesn't but it is constant trial and error and I can be particularly hard on myself if something doesn't turn out right, but not today, today I started to make my tag for Tag Tuesday's theme to use a found object, I had found an awesome wooden folding ruler at a yard sale for $1 and was so excited to use it but I wanted to use my new perfect pearls that I just got yesterday, needless to say this did not bode well for me but I wanted to share the tag I ended up with anyway because it helps to "share your imperfections" for art is interpretative of the person viewing it, and in some ways I think my imperfect tag turned out pretty in it's own way:

 All I did was crop it and left the rest unphoto edited to show its imperfections! Now I am off to start again on my Tag Tuesday tag!

Amy

Found objects

Hi everyone!  I can't believe I have been away from Tag Tuesday for such a long time - won't bore you with all the details (unless you really want to know, then take a peek at my long neglected blog!)  Suffice to say its been one of the busiest times of my life!!  Have tried to make time to look at all the amazing tags you have all been making - FABULOUS!!!  I'm actually quite nervous about startiong again - my creative mojo (is that what they say??) seems to have disappeared due to lack of use.  Anyway here is my effort for things found - I have used a leaflet I found in a drawer about the Chateau Monbazillac (I live just down the road - ish) and added some ATC paper featuring scottish baronial titles.  I have also used a bottle top (another found item) filled with a picture of the Mona Lisa - all in all a kind of medieval mix!!  Glad to be back - missed you all - Carolyn xxxxxxxxxx

Found Objects

I have a feeling that I've slightly cheated with this week's challenge. I haven't included my found object in my tag, and it was only 'found' in that I bought it a while ago and it was sitting, forgotten, in the pencil pot on my desk!
My item was a white rose, that I'd been playing around with and dyed the edges pink. It just reminded me of a quote from Anne of Green Gables. "I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose would be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage."

So my tag has a picture of Anne as Matthew Cuthbert first saw her, complete with carpet bag with tricky handle. I added some little swirly decorations and wrote Anne(with an e) Shirley.

On the other side is the quote with drawings of a thistle and a skunk cabbage, also known as the dreaded Japanese knot weed.

I added a blue ribbon and a little white rose, because Anne's red hair forever denied her from wearing pink.

Found Objects

The 'tag team' are on fire this week such talent and  truly unique artwork on display.
 I'm sort of cheating again. I didn't find the objects that inspired this tag but boy do I wish I had!!
First thought for found objects was 'Staffordshire Hoard' I had been looking at the artifacts recently and was astonished by the artistry and workmanship. I live about Two miles from the site where it was found.
 Making the tag was challenging.  All the stuff I used I 'found' in my studio. Tag, red tissue paper, clear acetate, gold peel off things, I made the horse from card and used embossing powders on it. Wire and beads.
Pat x

Some images of the Staffordshire hoard

 

I found these difficult to photograph.  One inside and one outside.

Found Objects

You will FIND...

Sorry I'm so late in posting. I went to Guatemala on a vision casting trip with my church and came home with e-coli. Two words can describe this: NO FUN. 

For this week's challenge, I used a piece of driftwood that I found. I collected the driftwood back in January for our church's women's retreat. As I did, I was praying that God direct me to the pieces that He wanted available for the women. I ran across this piece and it fit in my hand like it was made for it. It looks like a cross to me and I have held it in my hand while I pray.  To make the tag, I stamped some photo paper with "Moonlight White" archival ink. (You can see the design in the close up picture) Then I took Ranger Alcohol Inks and made a Alcohol Ink Monoprint. I then printed up, cut out and glued down the words to Jeremiah 29:13 . "You will seek me and FIND me " (when you seek me with all of your heart.) I liked the fact that I was using a found object and the word "find". I finished off the tag by gluing it to a background tag, gluing down some tiny shells I had laying around and then doodling on the tag. I put a piece of jute on it that came on a package my husband got in the mail for a "ribbon".

 I hope you all have a wonderfully creative week!

Best, Mary Ann

Found objects.

My original idea for this weeks theme, was going to be all the receipts I had found in my purse.  Decide against it, when I just couldn't make it interesting  So, instead, I went back to a tin that was found when we were clearing my Grandmothers house.  There are about half a dozen of these mother of pearl discs with carving on them.  It was suggested at the time of finding them, that they might be poker chips, but as my Grandmother was a very strict Methodist, they certainly weren't hers!

 Having decided to use the disc, it was a mater of rummaging through my bits and bobs trying to find other Oriental bits I could use.   The background and image was from an A.T.C pad of papers I bought in a sale for £1, several years ago. I then decided to have a go at some origami for the embellishment and used a 'recipe' called the ellington with some paper I have had about 20 years ( I am a terrible hoarder)  A little charm to finish it off, that was in my stash.

A close up of the disc, sorry it is not very easy to take a good photo of, I have tried various positions round the house and natural and artificial light too, this one is the best.

Found Objects

You find the oddest things when you dig in the garden of a 150 year old cottage. Garden is too grand a word really, it is more of a field, lol. 
Found whilst digging - 1 large, rusty and very old handmade horseshoe (?) nail
Found whilst collecting up bits of bark from the firewood stacked outside the cottage - butterfly wings! How lucky was that, they are so delicate and richly coloured. Sadly I only found 1 side, top and bottom
Found whilst trying to clear a bit under the hedges in front of the cottage - richly coloured dried bay leaves from a bay tree which died in the prolonged heavy winter freeze
Found whilst looking for an envelope in a little drawer in the armoire - dried flowers amongst cards, envelopes and paper


And this is the tag I came up with -

Off to visit the other tagoholics and admire their wonderful tags. Toodlepip xxx

Found Objects

Last week, we took son #2 for his college interview over at Southend on sea. So while he was busy being quizzed about his Art and Design to get a place at the college, Hubby and I, took my Barney Boy for a lovely long dog walk along the sea-front.

-oOo-

So, with this weeks tag theme in mind, I decided to 'find' something on the beach...

So a few little shells came home with me that day.

Still not sure what to do with the shells....

...then inspiration struck, when I found something else ....a discarded clothing label on sons bedroom floor...from a recent T-shirt purchase...

So, this is the result of my 'found' items...
a simple little tag...

..added a little paint, cheesecloth, old button, Tim Holtz embellies, jump rings and shells .

-oOo-

...and the Good news, son secured a college place!! woop woop! :)

Thanks for peeking!

Jan x

 

 

Found Objects.

My tag for this weeks theme are all found items collected up from my late FIL's home. We collected up over 50 keys from around the house and never did find which locks they fitted but  I kept them all for crafting. The other bits were found in odd drawers and put in with the keys. I used 2 of the larger keys (on a recent swap) and whilst looking through the tin of keys thought that some of the bits and bobs would make a good 'Found Objects ' Tag. They made me think of steam punk so I decided to go with that idea. I found this  steam punk collage on a great site called Free Vintage Digi Stamps and painted over the background using a brown watercolour pencil. Matted onto thick card and  punched out a tag from my XCut nesties. The edges were rubbed over with Inka Gold and a few  dabs put on the front too. The bits and pieces were  randomly glued in place , a string hanging attached and as they say "Bob's your Uncle"  one tag finished!

Found objects

When I  saw the theme 'found objects' the first thing that came to mind was seed heads. I decided to make a little hedgehog using a teasle.  I used black headed pins for eyes and a black bead for the nose.

I covered a cream tag with fabric and lace, and added a picture of  Mrs Tiggy-winkle.  On another tag I printed an excerpt from the Beatrix Potter story where Mrs Tiggy-winkle  returns to being just a hedgehog.  The tags are joined with half a pink shoe lace and finished off with a silver safety pin (as used by Mrs T. in the story).  The teasle, still on its stalk, is just pushed through the holes and being ptickly it stays there without glue.

Now I'm off to see what you have all found this week!
Love Jane xx

Found objects.

Last week I found some dried clovers in an old book. When I wanted to start my tag, I couldn't find them again....
Hiding things in books is a great idea if you don't need to find them quickly, or if you at least write down which book you have used. As I have a few thousand books here, it is sometimes rather difficult.... But then I found the right book, *Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species*, and there were the four leafed clovers. I don't know who pressed them or put them in there, but I was happy to have found them again.
My tag has been made from some scrap card, covered with part of a page from *Webster's Dictionary* - an extremely large and heavy volume. I chose the page where *clover* was. I distressed the paper with forest moss DI, and added an image transfer of a clover plant, before affixing the four leaved clovers and a ribbon, which I also found in the cutlery drawer(?!).

I also found the frontispiece from a very ancient book, which had been placed in Darwin's pages for safe keeping, by whom I do not know. But it really is a little treasure, from 1627, which makes it almost 400 years old - amazing! If you would like to copy it for your own use you are very welcome.

And this is another found piece, discovered at the Rhine some weeks back, a little stone which has a three cornered form and looks like an owl. Well, I think it does!

Have a good week you all, and thanks for visiting! Valerie

"Found Object"

This week I was racking my brains thinking of what I might do for this week's tag theme. Sometimes when there are just so many ways of interpreting this theme, it's hard to know where to start. Then, as I was dusting, I found this little shell. I must pick it up and put it back every time I dust, but hadn't noticed it, or thought of it.It's in a little bowl with lots of other sparkly/interesting things I've found while walking on  the beach.
I zigzagged some green threads round the edge of a card with a sea them, made a fabric sea horse and added some stickers....One Found Object tag  ta-dum!!!

Found Objects

Our home is small and doesn't have much storage. The only found objects that I do keep tend to be tiny treasures that I think are lovely and that I might use someday. This little copper doodad is something that I have had for years...I have no idea where I found it or what it is. Looking at it has always made me think of art deco and the shape reminds me of a full moon. So, my tag this week is the Woman in the Moon. The night background is a time lapse photograph of Bryce Canyon that I printed out and glued to a card cut from heavy paper. I painted the art deco lady on the crescent moon and covered her with a diaphanous gown made of ribbon that dangles around her. If you look at her hand, you'll see a tiny copper circle - my found object and the inspiration for the piece. The small translucent tag at the top says, "What if the man in the moon is really a woman?" The ribbon of the tag is formed into a little comet - there is a diamond at the top and the curly tail implies movement.