Everyday Lucky Spring Tag

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Hope everything is well with you.

Much of North America, including us, is expecting more wintry weather this weekend right before the Spring Equinox arrives, so to take my mind off the weekend cold I made a tag to hang in my little art corner that celebrates SPD and Spring. 

I added a few punched items later and ultimately decided against using the washi in favor of some scrunchy ribbon, but these are the supplies that I began with. I had acquired some 4x6" Cavellini illustrated postcards several years ago that have been sitting there in my stash. The paper is thick and pulpy enough to take watercolors, so I decided to play with accenting and embellishing the already gorgeous images. 

I fussy cut the green bird from one postcard. I added some blue pearlescent watercolor to the sky surrounding the nest. I also added some browns and green to the nest and branches. I cut the dictionary page paper with a Spellbinders Labels 6 die, painted it with the white pearlescent, then glued it down on the tag. I took a blue Stabilo-All, outlined the text cloud, then smudged it with a damp Q-tip. I adhered the bird to the nest and added several itty bitty Memory Box Lucky Charms die cuts and the Sizzix TH Friendship Script Words die cuts. I ran a white Stabilo-All pencil over the bottom word die so it would stand out more against the dark nest. Then I grabbed some scrunched seam binding ribbon and a green flatback glass heart. I punched a, SU tab and a Fiskars 4-leaf clover. With these I made the tag topper. I initially glued down the heart off-center and when I pulled it up, it took some of the paper with it, so I had to punch another clover to cover that up. No worries, problem solved! Final step was ink-distressing the tag perimeter edge with some brown chalk ink.

Some close-ups to show the pearlescent water colored background and the beautiful texture and details of the illustration that I tried to accent a bit with my paints.

And of course the back of the tag cannot be ugly, so I dressed it with stash scraps and the remainder of my text page die cut. From this side you can see I'd stapled the seam binding in before adding the clover.

And final look.

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I really do love how this ended up looking and it holds a special meaning to me I will think of when I look at it displayed.  Honey and I have been excitedly watching two bird nests, with eggs laid, at both of our front and back doors in hanging airplane plants. This is our first Spring in a long time with hanging plants. So I'm pretty sure our little home life adventure influenced the making of this tag, whether or not I realized it at the time. We are indeed, lucky everyday, if we want to be. This tag will remind me!

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Thanks for visiting and stay warm and dry!

XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

Tag Tuesday Challenge: Birds

Mixed Media Lovers Challenge #23: Focal Point

Inspiration Station Challenge #47

Photo colors green and blue + outdoors were inspiring

Simply Create Too Challenge #188: Spring Colors
I Spy with My Little Eye Challenge #1: Spring Critter

Triple B March Challenge

Pearly Sparkles Challenge #82: Include Sentiment/Verse
Crafty Animals Challenge #70

The Four Seasons Spring Challenge #19

A Place to Start March 2023 Challenge

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #241: Make It Green

Critter Crazy Challenge #72

Classic Design Challenge March #3

Dragonfly Dreams March Challenge: Outdoors

We Love 2 Create Mixed Media Challenge #2

Arty Divas February Challenge

Die Cut Divas March Challenge

Mix It Up Challenge #64 w/Opt. Ink Distressing

Happy Little Stampers March Watercolor Challenge w/Opt. Wings

Aud Sentiments Challenge #299: St. Patrick's + Sentiment

Happy House Vesela Hiska Challenge #40: Spring Wind

Creatalicious Challenge #255 w/Opt. Ribbon

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #201

Gem of a Challenge Week 5

Try It On Tuesday Challenge: Go Green

The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge: Green

Fab N Funky Challenge #568: Retro/Vintage