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Fussy cut  pattern on a text background, with hand stitching-  WS 
The current theme at Tag Tuesday  is TIME/CLOCKS, nominated by design team member, Joan who prepared some great tags as inspiration. Sometime ago, I cut very carefully these white rabbits  out of a piece of paper... I loved the  pattern design of the shared ears being part of the central chessboard. This seemed a good time to find it in my stash and create a round tag for this challenge. I continued with the Wonderland theme, and remembered the Mad Hatter announcing "It's always tea time!" so here is another tag inspired by that saying... watercolour and ink drawing with photo transfers and text an fabric.
Watercolour pencil and ink drawing ( Alice) , photo transfer ( trees and quote)
 onto text background paper, with fabric. WS 
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  1. Valerie-JaelSeptember 3, 2018 at 3:18 PM

    Love both tags, great stitching, too. Alice is always one of my faves. Have a great week, hugs, Valerie

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  2. Sandra Wright.September 3, 2018 at 8:35 PM

    Fabulous Tags Wilma....couldn't choose a favourite because I love them equally...x

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  3. JoanSeptember 4, 2018 at 12:12 AM

    Both tags are fantastic - I love the stitching on the round tag!!!

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  4. MicheleSeptember 4, 2018 at 3:03 AM

    i love both! alice is perfect for this theme! xo

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  5. Words and PicturesSeptember 4, 2018 at 3:39 AM

    Two great Wonderland inspired pieces... and despite all those clocks, the White Rabbit is still always late!
    Alison x

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