I decided to make a “pillow gift” for my sister of a tag and it was based on my swap card (and then the tag improved the card) using Dragonfly Dreams.

I first stamped the bee from Dragonfly Dreams in versamark and heat embossed using the copper embossing powder. Next I used so saffron, calypso coral and rose red to add diagonal stripes of colour with my aquapainter which I then softened by adding more water and more so saffron. When they were dry, I cut them out with the Stitched Shapes framelits dies and then cut a larger mat using the copper foil. I realised that these weren’t going to be sturdy enough as tags on her onstage live bag and added a sturdier square – I used the card that is on the back of a DSP pack. To make that more pretty, I added another copper foil square. After that I did more watercoloring using the retired set Larger than Life to stamp a C and then heat emboss in copper. I made one for myself too.

Once I’d glued everything together with fast fuse, I tried to use a hand punch but it was a bit tricky. After mentioning this to Martin, he took the tags down to the basement and used the drill press. I then used some very vanilla satin ribbon to create a pretty means of attaching the tag to a bag. At this point, I decided it would be fun to make one for each of the Aces and Diamonds who were attending. Aces and Diamonds is Eimear Carvill’s team of which my sister is a member and I’ve been adopted as an “across the pond” member. It was really fun to meet up with them in Amsterdam.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz