Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Tag Team Tag

While at a retreat a few months ago, my dear friend and owner of The Crafty Scrapper, Carolyn Ross, and I, decided we wanted to do a tag team tag! What's that you ask? That's when you do a technique on a tag as long as you have it, and then shout out 'switch' every few minutes, and then the other crafter takes it and does their bit on it. You continue to switch, not knowing where it's going or what it will look like, and not having any idea what comes next!!! It's crazy fun, and the ideas you get from one another are INSPIRING to say the least!!! We laughed so hard and had the greatest night of crafting! With that, this is what we ended up with, and our only rule was to use a lot of Wendy Vecchi goodness and Dina Wakley's Scribbly Birds! And, since this tag has a flower on it, I got Carolyn's permission to enter it into Wendy's Make Art Challenge for May, which is to use flowers.  We loved the tag so much, we made 12 of them and gave them to all the ladies at the retreat as gifts!  If you have an artsy buddy to craft and hang out with, I wholeheartedly suggest you try this! It's truly a blast! I seriously wish we had a video camera rolling while we created the first one...it was crazy!
Let's see...Carolyn did the bird, embossing, and all the fussy cutting...you know I hate to fussy cut! I did the background, the sentiment, the flower and leaves coloring, and the heart doodling. She definitely had the hardest parts!
We watercolored, we embossed, we stenciled, we stamped, we doodled, we inked, we cut, we glued, we used alcohol...(No drinking was involved in the making of this tag!), we used embossing paste, Distress Markers, Glossy Accents, Distress Reinkers, pens...the whole crafty kitchen sink went into these tags! I'm laughing now just thinking about it!
I think it took us about two hours to do the first one! BAHAHAHAHA!!! Then the rest of the night to do the rest!
 
 
 
 

I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon! And if that be with a friend, all the better!!!

23 comments:

  1. Well the finished tag looks absolutely amazing and I LOVE the idea of this collaboration! I bet it was super fun, - the next time I'm together with some crafty friends I definitely think I'll give this a try.... Fabulous idea and glorious result!!

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  2. Crafting with friends is just the best! I love your tag team tag idea, it sounds like such fun - and what a beautiful result you achieved too! Hugs, Anne xx

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  3. love...love...love this tag. it sounds like the process was a blast!

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  4. Hheheheh - what fun! Well Anita and Carolyn YOU GIRLS created DOUBLE THE FUN. Really wonderful tag. Makes me smile big! j.

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  5. Wonderful and sweet little tag, Anita! Wish I had some crafty friends here to get all messy with! Love this!

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  6. OMG, this is fabulous, I love the "tag team tag" that you came up with. So fabulous!!!

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  7. A wonderful idea! I cannot think of two more creative people! Love this tag!

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  8. Such a beautiful tag and the colours are so happy !! Love that sweet little bird too. Crafting with family/friends is certainly just the best xx

    Sending you huge hugs
    Annie xx

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  9. OH, what fun! I am in love with that sweet little birdie...and the stamped border on the bottom is gorgeous. That background is dreamy, too. I love this idea..and I super love this tag! Nicely done!

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  10. What fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the tag came out wonderfully!!!!!!!!!!!

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  11. Anita, I love this idea! The two of you created a beautiful tag!!

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  12. Love Scribbly Birds and your and Carolyn's tag.

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  13. So wonderful, that's an amazing tag.

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  14. What a fun idea and what beautiful results!

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  15. This tag is beautiful and sounds like you had a blast working on it. It's a very cohesive design, considering various people worked on it. Blessings!

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  16. Wow, what a brilliant idea and sharing of creativity. I LOVE this tag!!! Truly a knockout. Nicola x

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  17. What a super cute tag! Love the gorgeous bottom border! The bird is so sweet! Love it! Hugs, Sandra

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  18. Such a Darling tag team tag, Anita! What a fun idea to have a tag team match with creativity! The results of two creative minds creating on one tag--Fabulous!! Just love this!! I think the echoes of your laughter is imprinted in this tag :) :) XOXO-Sahri

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  19. Now this has me smiling and antsy to crawl into my paints....

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