This week’s question was " what makes me me?"



Ok after two relatively challenging ones, this was easy for me. What makes me me is my capacity to love wholeheartedly. I can love, care and be there with all my being for the people in my life. I stick by them and I am there no matter what. My love is deep, true, and with all my being. So my theme was love.



For this tag, I was inspired by this paper from Prima Marketing. I wanted to use fabric but my punch wouldn’t punch through so I used the beautiful “que sera sera” papers from K & Company. I put some thin white paint on the background paper just to dim it out a bit and then just stitched over the hearts. And of course added some bling. Can’t seem to do without the small sparkle. That’s about it.

This week’s question was "what was my worst (or best?!) hairstyle experience to date?"



This one didn’t really speak to me immediately. In fifth grade, I decided to grow my hair and didn’t cut it until after college. Once I managed to cut it, I had a strong sense of freedom and proceeded to try several hairstyles. I went blonde, black, red and then back to my original brown. During this period, I spent a few months in Japan. While I was there, I had this one haircut which was the shortest my hair has ever been. It was auburn and really short. To this day, it’s the boldest haircut I’ve had, so I decided to commemorate it.



I am not sure I like this tag all that much but the technique I used this week was “printing on canvas.” I took this photo of me from then and printed it on canvas and glued it to the tag and then just embellished around it and put some fabric behind the tag. Not one of my favorites to be sure.

This week’s question was “what keeps me awake at night?”



To be fully honest, the one thing that literally keeps me awake at night is the baby, of course. Now that I am 8.5months pregnant, between peeing and spinal pain, there’s not much sleep to be had. But since I did a tag on pregnancy two weeks ago, I wanted to focus on something else so I decided to choose another big thing happening to us: the fact that we might be buying a house for the first time ever. Deciding whether to buy or not, finding a house, and trying to do it all in the middle of a baby coming certainly has been keeping me awake so I thought it was a fair one to tackle.

I originally planned to do “vintage” this week but somehow when I started doing the tag, this is what came out. I don’t know that it uses any specific technique except maybe a bunch of stamping and some layering. Nothing major or very new to me. I took a chipboard house and added elements of what I hope to have in my new home: music, words, flowers, sleep (moon), joy (butterfly), togetherness (key) and lots and lots of love.

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I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here

This week’s question was “what was the last brave thing i did?”



It might seem odd but the first thing that came to my mind was my pregnancy. Even though I really want this baby and I am so happy she or he is coming, this has been a long, hard pregnancy. I know it could be much worse but, for me, it’s been a journey in being brave. Trips to ER, a LOT of throwing up, anemia, resulting in more medication than I wanted. But, I’m almost at the end of this journey and can’t wait to meet my little one.



This week’s technique was simple. I drew a profile of a pregnant woman looking down. I put glossy glaze all over it and then microbeads on the glue. I left it overnight and then put another layer of glossy glaze over it so the beads wouldn’t fall off. I made a little heart out of wire with a small flower on it which I glued to the pregnant woman. I then inked the rest of the tag and wrote along the profile. That’s it.

This week’s question was “what would you do, if you knew you could not fail?”



For me, the thing that I keep coming back to over and over is to write. I want to write novels and be published. if i weren’t worried of failing, i’d be a writer. (and maybe an artist, too). So I made this little girl who’s holding a book and the letters spell “write.”



This week’s technique was inspired by the talented kelly rae roberts. I tried to use one of the techniques she highlights in her book “taking flight.” this tag uses old music, book, and mechanical drawing sheets and some stamps. Acrylic paint rolled over with a brayer and green alcohol ink as well as several distress inks. i really do wish i could draw better…but oh well 🙂



here’s another look:

This week’s prompt was “How do I feel TODAY?”

Honestly, I thought a lot about this one. The one prominent thought was
tired since I’ve been so so tired all the time lately but then I wanted
something that’s more specific for these last few days as opposed to the
last few months and since so many friends around me are struggling and
it’s making me blue, I’ve decided to go with feeling blue. It’s not even
that I am sad for myself, but mostly at all the hardships my friends are
suffering and how pensive it’s making me.



The main technique I tried to use on this one was resist. I used clear
embossing to stamp the “blue” and then inked all over the tag to make
the word standout. Then I covered the letters with Tim’s crackle paint
to emphasize the feeling of feeling broken/blue. I then used alcohol
inks to make the bling, ghost heart, and the shells blue. I also used
the sparkling H2O’s for the edges and inside the letters a bit just to
give it a glimmer of sparkle. I used stickles to cover a white heart and
put the two hearts to symbolize relationship related issues my friends
are having. That’s it. I wanted the whole card to be tints of blue.