These last couple of months have been interesting to say the least and I've not been able to focus on any one thing for any length of time. Needless to say I don't feel like I've accomplished much and my blog has perhaps suffered the most. So thanks to those of you who have stuck around and are reading this!

I have been puttering in my studio occasionally, but not nearly enough! I completed this project (last week?) and my DH decided that I need to do more like this:

So now I have a bunch of glass vases and bottles that I need to get to work on - I have some more ideas I want to try. (He's a big enabler of crafty purchases, usually I have to tell HIM to put stuff back when we're browsing the craft stores!)

I used several colors of alcohol inks and a copper leaf pen to decorate this glass bottle, then put a pretty charm on the cork. It's now in my Etsy Shop and as soon as I do some cleaning so that I can get to my work space, I'll be working on some more.

That's the ticket! Tickets are the theme for this week's Tag Tuesday.

Here's my submission for the challenge. Thanks to Louise for the stamped images of the tickets from Invoke Arts.

I've been playing with dominoes the last few days. Not the game, but the alteration of. I'm experimenting and trying different things. Some aren't working out so well, but at least I know what NOT to do!

This one came out nice, I think.

I used alcohol inks on the domino then stamped and embossed the image. This is going in my Etsy shop in the next couple of days.

Tag Tuesday #49 - Use glitter!

I admit it. I'm not a big glitter girl. Too messy, too... glittery. I have a hard enough time keeping ink from going everywhere. Glitter? Forget it! I'm a big fan of glitter glues (Stickles, etc.) because they put glitter (usually) just where I want it (sometimes) and even those I use sparingly. (Probably nothing to do with the fact that I always stick my finger in the glue after I get it just where I want it.)

However, the theme for Tag Tuesday this week is glitter, so I jumped out of my comfort zone to play.

My first attempt didn't go so well. (The idea was brilliant, I must say - but the execution? Not so much.) I scratched that and decided to do something a bit easier. This time, I embedded the glitter in some UTEE and heat set the UTEE and therefore the glitter into place. It worked wonderfully, except that I don't think the photo shows the background glitter very well.

I used three kinds of glitter - Fine Diamond Dust Glass Glitter and Citrine Shards Glass Glitter, (Thanks, Sarah!) and Fired Brick Distress Stickles (I couldn't resist). The heart is from Tim Holtz's new Alterations dies (thanks, Lori!).

I finally got an opportunity to finish my tag for Tag Tuesday. Recycle, repurpose and reuse is the theme this week.

For my tag, I die cut the tag shape out of leftover plastic packaging and again out of a pretty shopping bag I stashed away. (Yes, I do tend to keep stuff. Which is why my studio is always so messy looking! Well, that and my failed attempts at organization.)

I embossed and then used alcohol inks on the plastic and glued it to the paper. Then I added a couple of images and a charm. No stamping on this one - which may be a first for me.

And I got it in before the weekend. Yay, me!