Friday, 24 January 2014

Tag Along For PaperArtsy and Artistic Outpost

The wonderful Ellen Vargo is over at PaperArtsy this week, and she's been wowing us with her colourful abstract paintings. I tried to follow her day 2 technique to add to my tag book.
I pretty much followed her colours and instructions and all was well until we got to here.
I love this way of creating a background and will certainly use this technique again.
Next came the book pages and stencilling. I tried the Autumn Fire fresco but it didn't show up too well, so I went over with Cinnamon on two and Claret on the other. A bit bold I know but I liked it.
Then came my disaster, I stamped the Artistic Outpost images with my usual Versafine, but I think it's dried up a little. They didn't show up at all well but I couldn't  just stamp over. My middle tag was fine 'cos I used a Brilliance inkpad instead. So not wanting to be beaten, I stamped the images again on PA tissue paper (and before you beat my door down it was my last sheet so the pressure was on) 
They are not what I had hoped for but sometimes things don't go according to plan (I don't normally blog these though lol).
All the stamps used are by Artistic Outpost, from the Typography, Whimsical Melange, French Flight, and Birds of a Feather plates, and I will try them all again when my new Versafine arrives :-)
I'm linking these to the PaperArtsy challenge and also Artistic Outpost Anything Goes challenge. 
Hope you have a good weekend - I'm going to visit my sister and it's into London for us so happy days :-)
Thanks very much for looking x
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21 comments:

  1. Corrie Herriman24 January 2014 at 18:34

    I think they are lovely, all three of them, so there !!
    Have fun in London !!
    Corrie x

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  2. sam21ski24 January 2014 at 19:51

    Great save Sue, if you'd not of said, I wouldn't of noticed your little problem.

    It's a great fun technique isn't it!!

    Sam xx

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  3. Julie Lee24 January 2014 at 20:13

    I think they look fine, I love the backgrounds and the stamped images are a lovely choice and as Sam says I would never have known you had a problem, if you hadn't said. This is such a wonderful technique, isn't it? Have a great time in London! My daughter is sharing with 3 other girls, btw and they are all obsessed with decor being fashion students so maybe they'll be a little different from a house of boys. Maybe! We'll see! Julie Ann xxx

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  4. Julie Lee24 January 2014 at 20:13

    I think they look fine, I love the backgrounds and the stamped images are a lovely choice and as Sam says I would never have known you had a problem, if you hadn't said. This is such a wonderful technique, isn't it? Have a great time in London! My daughter is sharing with 3 other girls, btw and they are all obsessed with decor being fashion students so maybe they'll be a little different from a house of boys. Maybe! We'll see! Julie Ann xxx

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  5. Valerie-Jael24 January 2014 at 20:31

    Your tags are great, you climbed that cliff really well, well done you! Wonderful colours, too! Hugs, Valerie

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  6. massofhair24 January 2014 at 21:04

    Such beautiful Tags Sue. One of the things i like about this technique is u can make mistakes & use them to make your Tags even more interesting:-) xxx

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  7. Claudine24 January 2014 at 22:02

    They are really fab!! Loving the bold colors and well, they are great!!

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  8. Words and Pictures24 January 2014 at 22:09

    Love your tag trio... bold, brilliant colours and wonderful layers, and I think it was a great rescue with the stamping. Gorgeous choice of images - thanks so much for playing along with us at Artistic Outpost.
    Alison x

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  9. Anonymous24 January 2014 at 22:33

    Such a bold collection of tags - they are so wonderful.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  10. Netty25 January 2014 at 01:03

    Smashing tags Sue, have a great time in London. Hugs Annette x

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  11. Cocofolies25 January 2014 at 07:20

    Beautiful tags, you had great fun creating them I'm sure Sue !!!(since I had the same with Ellen's day-one techniques, hope I will have enough time to post it today lol!). My fav is the second one haha!! Have a great we with your sister in London, lucky girl! :) Coco xxx

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  12. chrissie25 January 2014 at 08:25

    Stunning tags and you created brilliant backgrounds

    Love Chrissie x

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  13. Craftyfield25 January 2014 at 09:15

    Great background! This technique is such fun... Love your stamped images too, I don't think it's a problem they are on tissue paper.

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  14. Trish25 January 2014 at 12:45

    Wonderful tags! Great background and I love the stamps you chose.

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  15. Darcy Marshall25 January 2014 at 16:13

    Fantastic save, they turned out great.

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  16. Silvia(Barnie)25 January 2014 at 19:23

    These are fantastic tags.

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  17. Karin26 January 2014 at 10:06

    beautiful tags, great colors too!
    Groetjes Karin

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  18. Kay Wallace26 January 2014 at 15:39

    I definitely like all three of your tags, Sue, and would not have know about your difficulty unless you had mentioned it. Ellen's technique has taken the internet by storm, and I am going to try it, too! It just makes so much sense! Thanks for sharing! Mwah! KayW

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  19. Inkypinkycraft26 January 2014 at 16:29

    these are great tags and love the way of creating the background x sorry for the lack of comments life has been a bit hectic so playing catch up! hugs trace x

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  20. Anonymous26 January 2014 at 21:10

    I think your tags turned out great.

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  21. Kathi10 February 2014 at 23:30

    I think you're a bit too hard on yourself. Your tags look great to me!

    I love what you did with E.V.'s technique and like the contrast of the bright background with the black and white stamping.

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