Making embellishments for a tag and a card

In exploring all the fun things one can do with paint, watercolors

and anything Tim Holtz (dyes, crayons, etc) I started

pages in a 7x9 album (check it out)

 using mixed media and then finding something

to do with said pages.

Some pages have photos and a layout was born, some pages

were of the "what was I thinking" concept.

Did I get a photo of this paper prior to whacking it up?

Nope.

However, here is a recreation after whacking it up. 

Notice the wonky circles.

I rock them.

Using a tiny corner, prior to totally whacking it up, 

I die cut some seashells and a tiny crab to use

for the adorable crab card I made using the

leftovers from my pal Hollie's cut file.

How stinkin' cute is that.

Oh and another sheet of premade watercolors was used

as the background.

When I looked again at the paper I pilfered the corner from

- I saw the circles

And thought what about those whacky round flowers

that are everywhere?

Of course can I cut competely round circles?

DOH.

Therefore, I sort of whacked out the circles and loved

them so much I freestyled the leaves and stems.

I KNOW!!!

I then thought "grass" was needed to I took regular scissors

and sliced the blades and mussed them up.

Love how it turned out.

Of course outlining was a must.

I am seriously challenged when it comes to drawing

of any kind so I am soooo jazzed at how

cute this turned out.

For my playdate at Holli's

I used mixed media paper from the Canson albums you

can get in the drawing section of M's or HL's.

I like that I am able to cut out tags any size I want... 

These two happened to be made the at the same time which

cleverly makes them look a lot alike.

I'm okay with that because they can look totally different

when mussed up more.

 

The tags below were made again at the play date because

I was able to "shop" Holli's endless supply of 

really cool stamps that I don't have

but love to have.

 

And if I don't like them as tags I can fussy cut them out or

cover them up. 

It all works.