Empress Wu Designs with Wilma

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. 

If you haven't caught up yet, Tag Tuesday has changed its format as an open blog with links to participants' posts.  Here's  the Tag Tuesday link to an amazing array of tags, creative ideas on various themes. The current theme is "Things with Wings" ( but no birds!) . Above is my very simple stitched tag on a piece of printed fabric lurking in my stash for a long time, just waiting for this occasion! I used whipped running stitch for the words. I also got out of my stash a bag of  beautiful butterfly wings made by Suzy Brewer , thinking they could be inspiration for another tag,... and discovered that someone has lost a wing! In fact, two bodies have lost wings it appears. A mystery yet to be solved. 

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly... Day 21 of the 29 Faces Art Challenge. Today's is an experimental drawing over a metallic painted background....