Tags ahoy!! Your chance to join in :)

Today I have two more tags to share with you, and a chance for you to get taggy with us for National Scrapbooking Day tomorrow!

These tags were inked up with spray inks and lots of water with some flourishes in brown StazOn and then embellished :)

This first tag uses some Tim Holtz stamps and a few SEI travel themed die-cuts, and is outlined in black and white Posca pen.

The second tag has a Kaisercraft clock rub-on in the centre, some Crafty Individuals acetate wings, some Tim Holtz sprockets and game spinners and a sentiment stamped with those little letter stamps you can pick up in the craft shop :)  also outlined in black and white Posca pen (love love LOVE these!)

And now your chance to join in! We know a lot of you will be busy tomorrow taking part in challenges for National Scrapbooking Day and we thought we'd join in Scrappy Tree style!  We challenge you to create a tag during the day tomorrow, and by the end of the day add a link to a picture of your tag in the comments of tomorrow's post, or send a pic to thescrappytree (at) hotmail.com (end of the day means midnight on Saturday in California!)

Yes there will be prizes :) we'll announce these later in the week, and also on Saturday we'll introduce a separate week-long challenge with the opportunity to swap your project at the end; watch out for tomorrow's post for details of how to take part!

Have a great scrappy weekend and thanks for visiting, hope to see you tomorrow!

Gayle xx

Welcome to the world of t'pouch...

Welcome to your weekend and the world of the t'pouch!  Last weekend I was lucky enough not only to attend a great class at the Stamp Attic with Hels Sheridan, but I also got to spend time with Stamp Attic owner Wendy.  What a lovely weekend! Lots of chat, plenty of coffee, and some inking to boot; who could ask for more!

As before I made cakes to take with me to the workshop, and once again I forgot to take pics LOL but I took a pic of the raspberry brownies before they ever left the baking tin (or the house!) and here they are...

I can't even tell you how gorgeous and gooey these were, I shall be making them again!  I also made a banana marble cake, but to be honest those brownies, oh the brownies!!

So I travelled up on Saturday afternoon and spent the evening with Wendy and her family, which was wonderful :) we ate, we chatted, we got vocal at the telly while The Voice and BGT were on: great fun!!  And I visited Wendy's craft room which is truly a cave of wonders!  Wendy's having a little revamp at the moment so no pics LOL

On Sunday we went to the Stamp Attic and met with Hels and the other ladies (and gent!) taking the workshop, charged ourselves up with plenty of coffee, cake and other goodies, and proceeded to ink and glue like our lives depended on it!

This was a tag class with a difference; tags on tags on tags in a pouch!  You can see Hels' blog post here for more information on how we made and embellished the tags and t'pouch (tag pouch), and Wendy has also blogged here with pics of all the tags made in class :)  And here's my effort!

Lately I am totally obsessed with tags and inking, so this class was right up my street!  (see, I did say on Friday I'd be right back on the tags after that card post LOL).  Was also really feeling the sunshiney colours this weekend, and at the time I didn't realise it but this is also Hels' Sunday stamper theme so it must be getting to that time of year :)

On a different note, in case you missed Julie's post last week you can see it here; it's important to us to make sure we can support causes that are near to our hearts.  We'd love to hear your comments :)

Happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Tags, tags, tags

Hello Scrappy Tree people, happy Saturday!  Welcome to the weekend :)

I had a bit of a mad run on tags recently and thought I would share a few of them in today's post (yes there are a few more, as I said I did go a bit mad!).

With this first tag, I've recently been enjoying using a lot of layering and vintage images and this tag ties in with that really.  There's also some stamping, some white acrylic paint and lots of embellishments.

I am a bit of a messy crafter and love anything inky so really enjoyed making these two!  I stamped the main images with black and brown StazOn ink and just sponged on some distress ink in different colours.  I added some white pen, some pearls and some Stickles to accent some parts of the tag too.

Here's hoping you have a great weekend full of crafting!  I am off to visit Wendy Gale and Hels Sheridan for some more inky fun at The Stamp Attic tomorrow, can't wait!

Happy scrapping!

Gayle xx

Be mine Valentine!

Today my project is a tag that I was playing around with for Valentine's Day (yes we're nearly there folks, don't forget your sweetheart on Tuesday!).

I sandwiched an acetate image from Crafty Individuals between two glass slides along with the caption (stamped letters which I cut out and stuck down with Glossy Accents) and put them into a memory frame; I then decorated a manila tag, keeping in mind the central placement for the slide and inked it with Fired Brick Distress Ink, Poppy Red Impress ink, gold pigment ink and black and brown StazOn.  I added some red ribbon and black lace to attach the slides to the tag.

Happy Valentine's everyone! Happy scrapping and have a great weekend!

Gayle xx

All About You week 1

Hello, Diana here welcoming you to my first post of ideas to scrapbook about YOU. Most of us make our loved ones the center of our craft, that is perfectly fine but we should also focus on us, so put aside those family pictures for a moment and dedicate a project a week for this month of August on something you want to tell about yourself.

I’ll start with this “The past 10 years in numbers” Tag book, you can also make this a layout, in fact I saw this theme as a layout (forgive me because that was a while back and I do not remember the name of the creator). This is a very versatile theme because you can make a list of the last year, five years, ten years etc.

I used three sizes of tags and leftover papers and chipboard sticker shapes I had from the October Afternoon 5 and Dime collection.

Here is a close up of the individual pages, as an extra option you can add journaling to the back of each tag.

How about a self portrait, make a layout about a Goal you have.

I hope you liked these 2 themes.

Till next week.

=Di

Resolutions Tag Book - February

Here we are on the last day of February.... how are those New Year's resolutions coming along? They slip so easily out of mind don't they!

We posted here last month about keeping them in mind all year long by making yourself a tag book. We'll be sharing one with you every month, and would love to hear which resolutions you're working on in 2011 :)

This month's resolution for me is....

Follow your interests and study hard! Learn, learn, learn....

This year I'm having a change of career so I want to work hard and learn as much about it as I possibly can; however, this resolution also extends to my interests! I always want to keep learning new things and look forward to trying out new crafts and techniques this year :) this year already I have been using a sewing machine on a few of my projects which is a new thing for me, and I love it!

What are your experiences with your resolutions? Now that we are two months into the year have you come up with some new plans to follow? Let us know how you're getting on!

Gayle xx

New Year's Resolutions

So have you forgotten yours already? ;) I spotted this wonderful hybrid project class by Jessica Sprague, which I loved as an idea to help you keep your resolutions in mind over the year - the class gives easy print-outs for you to make your own tag book to keep track of your New Year's resolutions...



Well, I downloaded the class and loved the idea so much I decided to have a go at making my own :)

Using Basic Grey's Boxer patterned paper and number stickers I decorated 14 small green and black tags, one for each month and one each for the front and back covers. I wanted to keep a theme running throughout the book so decided to decorate using two alternate designs through the tag book.

I used the Cricut Storybook cartridge to cut cream journalling spots for the green pages, and punched patterned corners on the red paper to embellish the black pages.

I have taken photos of the book before writing my resolutions inside because I don't want to spoil the surprise! The other Scrappy Tree girls are sharing the fun and will be taking it in turns every month over the year to come to share their take on this idea, plus one of their twelve resolutions for that month. So here is my first resolution:-

I will... live healthy 90% of the time; move my body and eat well.

I find that I can very much be an all or nothing kind of person when it comes to my health - either I am entirely preoccupied with going to the gym and following my diet or I am utterly neglectful of it! This year I will be getting married in September, and while I know that nobody is perfect (hence the 10% of leeway ;) ) I resolve to make a commitment to myself to be good to my body MOST of the time. Girls, if you're anything like me it will be a relief not to beat yourself up for neglecting your health and wellbeing, so let's give ourselves the occasional break but on the whole make this year a good year for treating ourselves well :)

Feel free to share your thoughts either here or at The Scrappy Tree community, I know that this will be one that is a big issue for many of us :)

Gayle xx

An Autumn Tag

For today's project we decided to have some fun with some autumn themed tags, made by Kristin and Gayle on the design team.

Kristin made these first two beautiful tags with the addition of some fabric and lace and the aid of a sewing machine. Added some lovely ribbon and some cute embellies and voila! Thanksgiving tags!




Gayle's tag was made as a thank you to the generous friend who provided the image. She hasn't seen it yet so we won't name her at this point but hopefully by Thanksgiving weekend she will know who she is!
Working on a large tag from K&Co, Gayle layered lace, ribbon, and paper, plus some acetate, ribbon, buttons and flowers.

Getting in the Thanksgiving mood yet? Check back later this week for the results of the Thankfulness challenge! If you haven't entered yet it's not too late - e-mail a few pics of your project (anything you want to make themed around what you are thankful for this year) to thescrappytree@hotmail.com by midnight on Tuesday 24th November. Looking forward to seeing your work!