the Nest » ATC http://blog.thenest.ie Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:26:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Birthday Tag http://blog.thenest.ie/2011/02/20/birthday-tag/ http://blog.thenest.ie/2011/02/20/birthday-tag/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:29:44 +0000 Emily http://blog.thenest.ie/?p=2266 A friend of mine had a birthday recently, and while I was wrapping her present, I decided to top it all with a really beautiful tag-a la  The Pink Couch (check out her deliciously inspiring tutorials here!) I’ve been thinking about compiling these for a while now, and had bits and pieces in mind stashed all over the place.

I topped it all with a crochet flower:

The Pink Couch tends towards the most beautiful reds and pinks, but my birthday friend is a more turquoise and blues person, so thats the colour scheme I stuck with.

Fabric samples, cards with buttons, tags, more tags, ATC’s, beautiful paper scraps, crochet motifs: then I assembled it all with ribbon.

Very easy and so gorgeous as a show-stopping tag!!

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My dear friend Tara came over yesterday and we had a lovely lunch and chat.

A little present of a gorgeous magazine for my cup of tea in the afternoon….

 

And some artworks… (I need to balance my brain after all the Homeopathy case work…) these ones are mixed media, paint and collage, not finished yet, have to and have a think where to go next with these

 

This is collage, a bit strange I know, more work to do…

 

“The Forgetting and the Remembering”

This is mixed media also: paint, collage, hand dyed vintage laces and buttons

 

And a few tags, they are ATC size, double the delight!!!

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 Also this week I received my first ever ATC (Artist Trading Card) These are collectible pieces of original art, the size of a regular playing card. I have been making a few and wanted the first of my collection to be a special one. I have been following Debrina through this blog and loved her work, and I became the delighted owner of this gorgeous ATC:

This is the parcel I received, my ATC, a lovely letter, and!! as an extra delight, a beautiful print: Thank you Debrina!! You made my week!!

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