Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Glitter Queen Returns

Hello Everyone,




Here in New York, we had quite a bit of snow over the weekend. I decided to go through my craft supplies and see what I could do with them. A few months ago I started trolling around Etsy for digital images. Since I am not an artist, I thought I would use the images for some soap boxes I wanted to make. I went crazy! Anything that appealed to me wound up in the shopping cart whether it suited my original purpose or not.  So yesterday, I decided to go through my images and supplies. I made some tags. Most of them will probably be used as give aways. I am all thumbs, have little patience, and measuring? Fugeddaboudit. (I learned that as a result of living in the Bronx.) Anyway I did wind up with a few things. I wonder what my former colleagues at work (a school) would think of the woman they used to call the Glitter Queen. I had tubs of it and used it often to decorate bulletin boards. Now life is much easier with Stickles.


I could not resist the Cat tags or the Scottie tags. I made some Scottie soap for Valentines day, and it was a hit, so I will use those tags with my Scottie soap orders. The cat tags were just too cute. They would make nice book marks.




The pink floral tags must be used as give aways. The designer forbids sale in any form. I won't be buying any more form that person. They look a little brighter in the picture than they really are, but they are pretty and make me think of spring.


Next you will see some French tags with a pale pink tapestry background. I was pleased with my borders on these. Thanks to  Stickles once again.   I also tried different colors of seam binding, but I am leaning toward the black for these.



So this is how I spent a snowy afternoon. It was lots of fun, and it made me forget that I was snowed in. Oh and I did do a little work on a design for the top of a soap box. I plan to adhere it to a papier mache box, so the brown and beige tones really look very nice on the box. I may add a ribbon. So as usual, I spent a lot of time creating things, but barely finished working on what I really needed to do.

Now if only I could figure out how to get pictures where I want them and get rid of empty spaces without deleting the text and pictures I want on this blog. 

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week. Spring is just around the corner!!!
Marie

10 comments:

lisa said...

Marie ~

I love them! Especially the pink/rose ones, they are awesome.

Lisa
Pale Pink And Roses

Patricia said...

Your tags came out beautiful, I have never tried that. I am all thumbs with the gluing and glitter. You had a nice productive time during the snow storm. I'm embarrassed to say what I did during the enforced seclusion! But I did blog about it, lol.
Pat
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oliviapaige said...

Marie,

What great things you made! I really like the black on the pink tags. I don't really know which I like best but I'm leaning toward the pink French tags.

Vera
Olivia Paige

Janet L Christian said...

Very cute esp the little scottie

Amore Artisan Boutique said...

I love the pink French tags, nice job, your should get snowed in more often (haha) What what a nice gist those would be!
Have a great week
hugs sassy gail

Deb said...

Your tags look very professional....I love the scotties and kitties and I agree that the black seam binding looks best.

Have a great week!
Debbie

gail said...

Hi Marie,,, I love, love, love the tags, especially the scotties and kitties! But they are all pretty. I love your new song selections too! :)
Happy creating (())gail

Carolee Crafts said...

I love your tags Marie, just beautiful, sorry you can not sell the pink ones as those were my favourite, along with the scottie and pussy cats, the french theme, well all of them really.

Hugs x

Miniature Patisserie Chef said...

Hi Marie,

Sounds like you had a fun day staying home to make all those tags. They are beautiful, and I especially love the light pink one with black and white antique images on them!

Pei Li

Tedi said...

Wow, it sure doesn't look like all thumbs to me! I think they are lovely and perfect for a million and one things. Hugs, Tedi
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