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Wings and Red Cheeks

I have missed Tag Tuesday...  When the theme chosen by Sandie was "Wings" , I thought I could add to one of my series as well as practise my machine stitching skills for #The 100 Day Project which seems to be monopolising my time currently. For my "wings" tags, I created two on the theme of butterflies. Both are free motion stitched on my trusty Bernina sewing machine . I then applied "heat and bond", a double sided fabric adhesive and cut around the stitched "portraits". The cut outs were then applied to prepared tags made from cardboard,  covered with  book text and painted with white gesso. The red cheeks are coloured with Inktense pencil. 


 Here are the first two in the Red Cheeks series ... and they fit the "wings" theme too. 


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  1. Valerie-JaelJune 29, 2019 at 3:17 PM

    Beautiful tag, love your fab drawings as always! Thanks so much for joining us at Tag Tuesday, much appreciated! Hugs, Valerie

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    1. Wilma Simmons (Empress Wu Designs)June 29, 2019 at 5:33 PM

      Thank you Valerie - I have missed Tag Tuesday, so will try to participate as much as possible. By the way, these are stitched tags - machine stitched.

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  2. Anne (cornucopia)June 30, 2019 at 12:37 AM

    These are lovely.

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  3. MicheleJune 30, 2019 at 12:37 PM

    these are absolutely lovely! xo

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