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Mushroom Madness - Tag Tuesday




Mushroom Madness 1 -  art tag :Wilma Simmons 
The theme for Tag Tuesday's current fortnight is Mushrooms/Fungi, and I was finding it a bit difficult to create an interesting tag even though I do love eating all sorts of mushrooms. Then I remembered I won some  mushroom print  linen a couple of years ago and while I have used most of it, I recalled a few scraps of the fabric turning up during a clean up.  During the search, I also found some prints of ladies in the same little box, so I combined the two  to make some applique fabric tags. The prints were applied  to background fabric with "heat and bond" a double sided heat activated adhesive , stitched by machine and then applied to the card tag. 

Mushroom Madness 2 - art tag : Wilma Simmons 
And here is a time lapse video which I love to watch ... Mushroom Bloom  ...

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