Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

 Coinciding with Valentine's Day, Tag Tuesday's current theme is "Love/Hearts" .  My tag is inspired by the song:  … What the world needs now is love, sweet love It's the only thing that there's just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love No not just for some, but for everyone … This tag features a postage stamp issued in 1995 by Australia Post to mark Valentine's Day. The rest of the tag involved some fussy cutting from old magazine pages and a few little "doll buttons". So simple but I hope it conveys the message.

"Have a Heart" is a happy theme for Tag Tuesday's fortnightly challenge  - already some brilliant tags have been posted here . Hope you will go and have a look, My offering is a very simple tag, - a cut out house from a piece of painted paper ( paper used to take the excess paint off a brayer), a cut out bit of scenery from a magazine, and of course, a cut out heart shape.  The background is an old book page, with a little bit of coloured pencil shading. Then I traced around the outlines with black felt tipped pen. The time taken to make a tag like this is between 15-30 minutes, depending on if you can find the bits and pieces you need quickly or not! " Home is where the heart is" - a reminder to "have a heart " - be kind to someone today!

For some strange reason, I have been making quite a few things in pink in the last couple of weeks. This week I finshed a little felt face brooch and a polymer and silver necklace - all very girly and pink!  Perhaps my new granddchild due in December will be a girl? The little brooch is made from a piece of handmade felt which I made while doing a demonstration at a workshop , and the spikey bits came later, again from a felting experiement. I put them together with one of the little faces I use for my Feltfollies, and here is a different look brooch.  The necklace heart pendant was designed to fit one of the little silver pieces I made when I was first learning to work with silver clay ( Precious Metal Clay - PMC). Then, I used to have bits of clay left from projects because of poor planning, and to practise, I used to make buttons or pieces I could use on dolls. This one didn't get that far and found its way onto a polymer clay shape. Thinking Pink in...