Tag Tuesday Challenge -- Butterflies

Today's challenge is an easy one -- our theme is Butterflies.    

Last week's challenge was a bit different, I admit.   And seemed a bit intimidating to non-scrapbookers.  Although I was happy to see many take on the challenge and then remark it was motivating them to give scrapbooking a try.

In creating this week's tag I was surprised to see just how much butterfly stuff I have.  More to follow on this.

But for now just create your tag with any kind of butterfly you'd like.  

*****Since next weekend is a holiday for us here in the States (Labor Day), I am making this a two week challenge.  The next challenge will be posted September 13th.
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Speaking of Scrapbooking.....

Aside from the Heritage Album I mentioned I was working on, I've also been creating premade scrapbook pages which I sell in my Etsy shop.  It's quite different when you are creating pages for someone else to add their photos to rather than creating a page around photos of your own.  Since the pictures are what make a scrapbook page, it's challenging trying to create interesting looking pages minus the photos.  It's also important to keep the theme generic enough to appeal to more people.  Here's a few of them I've created lately which I particularly like:

Tag Tuesday Challenge -- Scrapbook a Tag

Today's challenge evolves from a Family Heritage Album I've been working on.  It got me thinking about creating a tag I could use as an embellishment for my album page and then became an idea for this week's theme.

So create a tag as you would a scrapbook page -- use a photo, add a background, a title, journal on it.  Basically tell a story with your tag.  The theme can be anything you'd like it to be.  And this week it can be on paper (which I know will be a relief for many of you:)

The wedding picture in the center of my tag is of my grandparents.  The two smaller pictures above it are their respective families.  And then the smaller picture below is of the children my grandparents had.  My mom is the last female on the right.  (The picture was taken when her brother was on leave from the service during WWII).   The brad with the letter B on it stands for the family name, Braun.

Tile Magnets

While cleaning out the basement I discovered a box of leftover floor tiles.  Grouped together I never realized there were some heart shaped tiles in the pattern.  So I took out the heart shaped ones and then pondered what I could create with them.  I decided to make these little collage magnets.  Fun!  Love finding junk in the basement that can be altered.

I stamped on the tiles with Staz-On and then coated each tile when it was completed with Glossy Accents or Matte Accents, which also helped the embellishments hold.  I even found (after seriously burning my thumb trying to attach the magnet pieces to the back and then having them pull off easily) that the Glossy Accents was the best thing to hold the magnet to the tile as well.

Tag Tuesday Challenge -- Not on Paper

Today's tag was not easy to photograph as I created it on an acrylic surface.  I wanted to show how it's transparent, and I hope that comes through in the photo.  I used alcohol inks to create the background.  I then used gold metallic Staz-On and stamped text background.  You have to look closely to see this, but I really like the metallic Staz-On!

Anyways, that means today's challenge is to create a tag that is from any other material besides paper.  Your tag can be from chipboard. corrugated cardboard, fabric, grungepaper, acrylic as mine is -- or anything else you can think of as long as it's not a paper tag.  The theme is open.

The crown tags from last week were amazing -- I can't wait to see what everyone cooks up for this week!

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Tag Tuesday Challenge -- Crowns

I just finished creating this week's tag for the Tag Tuesday challenge when I noticed the same theme was being offered up over at the Gothic Arch challenge site.   Oh, well, I guess we'll be seeing a lot of crowns this week!

If anyone would like a little starter image, I'm including a link to a site Jacqueline mentioned a while back which includes lots of vintage freebies -- including this page of crowns:  
Tattered Vintage.  
Hope you all enjoy making your regal tags this week!
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Tag Tuesday News

Last week's challenge was a huge success.  Thanks to our guest hostess, Sarah, for her amazing sample and her template theme.  I think we had a record number of participants!
Sarah has chosen a few of the subsmissions for this week's sampler which has been posted on my sidebar.

Sarah also promised an RAK to a participant in last week's challenge, so be sure to hop over to her blog, Vintage Figments, and see who the winner was.

*****Note:  I have been removing the previous week's Mr. Linky  after a new challenge is posted in case anyone is wondering where those posts have disappeared to.  

Tag Tuesday Challenge -- A Guest Hostess!

My friend, Sarah, from Vintage Figments has graciously agreed to be out first guest hostess for today's Tag Tuesday challenge.  She has chosen a template challenge for this week's theme.   This fabulous mannequin template Sarah used for her tags can be found and downloaded here:

http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/mannequin.htm

To see the info on Sarah's tags and leave a comment for her,  please visit her blog at:  http://vintagefigments.blogspot.com.

Thanks, Sarah, for hostessing for us this week!