~:: My first Altered Tag Project ::~

There were a lot of Firsts in 2006 I must say! These are my first ever altered tags. My best friend Indi told me about this great little craft and I was ever so excited that the first theme I stumbled across in GlobalChatty was Fantasy Tags! I wanted to do something unique... and so I found a really lovely graphic by Josephine Wall I believe... *these were created in October and so I used a fall (the pumpkins) theme* I printed the image to be about the same size as the tag, and used pink and purpled toned tissue paper at the top cut into odd geometric shapes. I accented with a dragonfly cut out + added glitter to its wings and to the moon under the dragonfly and also added silver stars. On the ladies staff I placed a blue/purple tented jewel to give it a nice dimensional effect. and then for the finale I used blue and purple fiber's for the tassel. I think it turned out nicely but I couldnt get the scan to be clear enough because of the 3d jewel. This was as clear of an image I could manage. Hopefully the receiver of these tags will enjoy them as much as I did making them! *smiles*

This would be the 2nd of the Fantasy tag series. It took me a while to get the ambition up to actually work on my crafts again and so this tag was not completed until late December of 2006. I tired to be more creative with this tag. Please try to ignore the yellow background of this photo as I was using my digi camera and had this tag hanging on my eisle. This is another graphic from Josephine Wall (an excellent fantasy artist!) I took a white button to give another 3d effect and added a glitter coating to it to make it look like the moon in the image. I added multi colored stars and a lace for accenting at the bottom of the tag. I then traced the entire tag with clear sparkling glitter. I used blue, brown and purple fibers for the tassel and a fuschia tented ribbon shaped bead at the top to attach it to the tag. I believe it turned out quite nicely.