I’ve created this Creation of Beauty Hang Tag for the Words of Wisdom challenge over at the Gingersnap Creations blog. The challenge is to utilize some favorite words of wisdom (profound, funny, or otherwise) in a creation.
For this Hang Tag I’ve once again utilized a combination of both paper goods, ephemera, and digital touches to create this Altered Art piece. I love the vintage photo of the girl…she’s so lovely. And she is perfect for the quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson too, don’t you think?
My Peace Angel Hangtag was inspired by the Starry Night Challenge at the Gingersnap Creations blog. This time of year, Angels are a perfect subject matter so that was my starting point as I brainstormed for this hangtag.
I combined a vintage photo of an angel with some moon and sky images, along with some digital paper, to create a digital collage for this hangtag. Then I added that digital collage to a plain white paper hangtag, along with some embellishments, to complete the altered hang tag. I love the angel imagery so much, I may just use it for some Christmas cards this year! I really love how it turned out.
I have never done more Halloween-themed art projects as I have done in this past month or two. Very strange for me. LOL But I’ve been enjoying it! I have carried through with that same theme for the new Ravens challenge at the Gingersnap Creations blog. I’ve used it to create this Altered Hangtag I’m calling Witchie.
The vintage photo is my witchie inspiration, along with the 3 stamped ravens, of course. All of my ephemera and embellishments have been added to a hangtag, which I’ve grungy’d up to look aged. Seemed only appropriate when I’m doing something with a Halloween theme to make it have an aged look too. Seems like I should make a gift just to go with this hangtag and give it to someone for Halloween!
This is a new altered art hangtag I’ve created that I’m calling Imagine Face Hangtag.
These are tags I created on two-sided scrapbook cardstock paper, which I cut out using a tag-shaped cutter. I stamped on the image of a vintage face using black ink first. Then I created the torn edge and distressed strip for the upper part of the tag, which I stamped on with the word, Imagine in black ink. After I added that I just added a butterfly sticker and then finished it with a brown satin ribbon.
I love the combination of the brown ribbon with the turquoise pattern on the paper. It’s just a simple, elegant tag (I think). Perfect to add to a little gift. 
I created this Altered Art canvas for the latest challenge at the Gingersnaps Creations blog: On the Road. We needed to use things in our project that would be found “on the road.” So I used a vintage photo of my mom on a car as my inspiration for my project.
I started with an 8″ square canvas, which I painted with black acrylic. Then I spritzed it all over with a mixture of pearlescent white paint and water to give it some sheen and texture. Next I added some red patterened scrapbook paper with torn edges. I used a black ribbon near the top of the canvas, and then added an over-sized black and white hangtag and another cut piece of the red paper to serve as the background for the vintage photo. After I affixed the photo I embellished the canvas with metal gears and keys, some black satin bows, pearl gems, and a white a flower. And I added a metal bracket to frame “1950″ under the photo, which is when the photo was taken.
Wasn’t my mom adorable?!
Not sure really what inspired this Go Fish altered hangtag, but I had fun making it.
I started out with a large, plain white hangtag, which I stamped with a text design using black ink. Then I used some scrap wallpaper to add the wave element on the left side (top) of the tag. Next I drew a simple fish shape onto some textured blue scrapbook paper; into that, I drew the letters that spell out the word FISH, leaving a little space in between each letter so that I could cut them out. Then I cut out the letters and glued them onto the hangtag, spelling out the word FISH and also creating the shape of a fish. I added some smaller paper fish shapes that I drew and cut out, and also some punched paper holes. And I finished it off with a brad for the fish’s eye, and just a bit of blue ink on the edges for a distressed look.
Last year I created a Mona Lisa hangtag…I love using famous artworks in my own projects! So when I saw the recent 3 Muses Challenge, Altered Mona, I thought I’d have fun and actually digitally alter my existing What Mona Wants Altered Hangtag to turn it into new artwork for this challenge. And this is my result…
This was really fun! Since I can’t get into my studio right now, altering some existing altered art in a digital way was the perfect solution. And it still let me be creative, which is so important to me, even when I’m crunched for time! Hope you like it too.
This is my second creation as a visiting artist for the month of April at the Gingersnaps Creations Blog. The theme is the Far East and this is a technique challenge that required the use of Mists.
This began as a plain white hangtag. The first thing I did was to create a mountain-shaped stencil out of torn cardstock. I used a foam dauber and some blue ink to stencil on the mountain in the background. Then I used some Tattered Rose Glimmer Mist to create a shimmery rose-colored sky. Next I took the blue ink and distressed the tag edges a bit, and I also used a corner punch to create a decorative corner on each side of the bottom of the tag. Then I took some black ink and stamped on some Asian writing symbols over the blue mountains.
Then it was time to start creating some details. I tore some red paper and put that near the bottom of the tag, and then stamped some letters on some inked paper to create the word harmony; I cut those letters out and glued them to the red paper. Then I added some hand drawn symbols to the middle bottom of the tag. And then it was time to create my Geisha. I drew her by hand on some cardstock, colored her with some art markers, and then cut her out. I used some 3-D O’s to make her appear in relief on the tag. I also drew and colored her folded up parasol. Then I finished it off with just a a pink paper flower and a little dragonfly.
It’s time for another entry at the 3 Muses Challenge Blog, and this time the theme is Keys. I’m calling this The Promise.
I started with a large decorative hangtag that already had the black design motif on the bottom right corner, which I loved. Then I stamped on an image of a very Leonardo-esque woman on the upper left in black ink. I added an aged copper-look key, which I decided to turn into a butterfly of sorts by adding some decorative 3-D felt hearts I got on clearance recently. The hearts serve as the wings. Then I added a couple of red plastic heart embellishments to help carry that red color around the design. And I finished it with a red word sticker that reads, promise.
I was thinking of the Luther Vandross song, Promise Me, with lyrics that go…
Promise that you’ll leave me never,
that we’ll be in love forever…
I love how it turned out. I think I might save it for a future gift!
Crowns are the thing right now at Gingersnap Creations, so I’ve created a hangtag to enter their Crowns Challenge. I’m calling it my Vintage Queen Hangtag. It’s also going into the Tag Tuesday Postcard Challenge.
I started with a plain white hangtag, which I then used a decorative corner punch on to give it some added detail. Then I used brown ink and a text rubber stamp to create the background, and I distressed the edges with the same brown ink.
I found a vintage photo of a young girl, which I then Mod Podged in place on the tag. Then I added a transparent paper image over the top of the girl photo. This image has the little bird on it and reads Carte Postale at the bottom, which means “postcard” in French. I love the way the photo of the girl looks through this transparent (vellum-type) paper.
For embellishments, I added a crown using a 3D-O to make it appear in relief (raised up from the background) and I added rhinestone gems to the crown. I also added a rhinestone gem above the bird. I added alpha stickers to spell out q-u-e-e-n. And then I added a pretty flower at the bottom of the tag. I finished it off with some coordinating satin ribbon.
I think the tag itself has a very vintage feel, and a very shabby chic feel as well.
