Tag Swap and a last-minute WOYWW #118!

The other day I received through the post some tags from a swap I took part in on UK Scrappers.  It's the first time I've done a tag swap and there was some blood, sweat and tears involved in making them!  Well, a bit of swearing anyway...:D

The theme was The Wizard of Oz, and I'm very pleased with myself for NOT rushing online to buy an appropriate stamp set.  Since the link didn't have to be too overt I settled for the following:

Well, I say it's not overt and then I show you red shoes and a yellow brick road!  The shoes were from a See-D's Vintage stamp set, they're the perfect size.  The yellow brick road is a Katzelkraft chain-link stamp which I hadn't used at all before this. 

Here's a No Place Like Home jobbie.  I lurrrrve that stamp of the girl, and I was rather pleased with myself for managing to think of that masking trick.  I need to be a bit more creative with my stamps.  You know, rather than just buying them by the buckletload and then gazing at them...

We had to have something peridot green (for August) on the tag, and also a metal element.  On this one I used gold foil, which Jean Hardy of Crafty Individuals loves so much.  I have to say I'm with Jean - but I can't get it to work with a glue stick like she does.  Probably my cheap glue sticks, but I find a Quickie glue pen is ace!  You have to be patient and leave it to dry, but then it grabs that foil like nobody's business!

This is my favourite tag, and I'm touched that Leanie, the swap host, sent it back to me.  One reason it's my fave is because I used the acrylic flower I made here, after a light-bulb moment when I realised it was peridot green!

Now, I made three other tags in the same vein - ie, book page with a definition circled, and a design relating to that word.  But I didn't like the other three, despite spending quite some time on one of them...!  Instead, I ripped them to bits, hehe, and redesigned them all like this one:

Interestingly, this was done rather quickly as I needed to finish up and clear away before I went on holiday.  So I've used the first things I thought of and it seems to have worked rather well.  It so often happens that way - without all the agonising and trying to make it perfect, I ended up with something I really like.

I was going to show you a photo of the tags I got back, which I nicked from Leanie's blog.  Just because I'm too lazy to take a photo here and upload it.  But it occurs to me that it would be much better to link you to Leanie's blog, which is here - mine is the second group, as you can probably see.  It was lovely to get all these different tags through the post but I'll need to create some sort of album for them now; I've already put my name down for the September swap!

Now, it occurs to me that I can justifiably link this post to the WOYWW lot over at Julia's blog, albeit late in the day so that I'm probably #2060 and no-one will ever read it, lol!  If you are here via another route, however, do take a look on Julia's blog and maybe have a rummage around in the huge list of participants - it's very rewarding and has resulted in many additions to my Google Reader list.

Comments

[Lunch Lady Jan]

Love all your tags - even the Wizard of Oz one, which is amazing as I loathe that story/film/music! But my favourite by far is the August green peridot one, absolutely blooming gorgeous!!

[***Karen***]

Love the Over the Rainbow tag, always the way with the last minute things - turning out the best! Well done on joining WOYWW, I was late too, so I'm #2059!!!

[Claireliz]

Love the Wizard of Oz tag, fabby ruby slippers.
C
xx

[helen]

Great tags - love those red shoes!

[Helen]

Love those tags, I always find tags such a great size and shape for artwork of all kinds, I use them often myself.
I am a new follower of your blog, if you have a few spare minutes please pop over and say hello I came across you via WOYWW.
Helen x

[Spyder]

Love your tags, I've got that rainbow! all great ideas and even I was quick to see what they where about (small brain, usually weeks go by before i notice anything.. like, odd shoes...blouse on inside out...) happy woyww
((Lyn))

[lee]

I loved all the great tags that you made, very clever. I will be back, thanks for leaving such a nice comment on my blog.

[Marie]

I love your tags, especially your rainbow one - very cute indeed!