Wednesday 11 February 2009

Valentine's tags....

This week the Tag You're It! challenge is Love and Romance - well with it being Valentine's day tomorrow what other theme could there be? However you don't have to make a Valentines tag - any interpretation of love and romance is allowed.
This week we have a fantastic giveaway donated by Sugar Nellies stamps - we have 3 of their fabulous stamps for one tagger who will be chosen at random next Friday.
So in celebration of this the design team have used Sugar Nellie stamps for their tag this week, I have in fact made two tags using the wonderful Leanne Ellis stamps;


I think I overdone the pearls on this one a bit!





And this has to be my favourite stamp;




I have to admit to not really being a stamper - I use stamps for sentiments but rarely use images, but there was something very therapeutic about colouring these images, I am a complete beginner with the colouring in thing - I didn't know what materials I should use so I had to experiment quite a bit first. I tried Marvy le plume pens - which I have to say were a bit rubbish actually I thought they were just like kids felt tips! So I abandoned those and used Letraset Promarkers (luckily I won some of these a few years ago and have hardly ever used them but they worked really well) and I just used the tiniest amount of watercolour for the faces.


Why not join in with the challenge this week - it's a fab prize and someone's gotta win it!
I look forward to seeing all your tags!

Sarah x

9 comments:

Dawn said...

Sarah amazing tags - the pearls and colouring are stunning !

Hugs
Dawn
xx

Pia said...

wow what a great tag. lovely colours and image

Kath Stewart said...

Sarah your tags are just amazing...really beautiful colour work and I hope you are now a converted image stamper....great work and have a great weekend
Hugs Kath xxxx

Carol Ann said...

These are fab I love Leanne Ellis stamps I only have the one at the moment but as there are some more coming out I will be hoping to get a few more! I Love her web site her art work is fantastic.

melody said...

wow ~ gorgeous tags chickie! your stamping and coloring is fabulous ~ beautiful work!

Glittertastic said...

I love these - they are so quirky! And the colouring is fab!

Michelle said...

I am in love with the first one. The pearls are fab - loads of them - it looks great.
Excellent colouring btw, really striking.
Hope you are all well,
Mich
xxx

Nancy Ward said...

Hi!

Today I posted an entry on my blog with a link to yours.

Would you let me know if that's OK?

Thanks,

Nancy Ward
http://paperfriendly.blogspot.com

Em said...

Hello sweetie!! Thanks for your lovely comment on my neglected blog!

Have just been looking through your totally GORGEOUS cards and tags, you are one clever bunny, just love the one with all the eyelets, how patient are you??!!!

xxx