More Tags & A Happy (unrelated) Result

It was a cold, windy, rainy, all-round yucky day today so I stayed inside and got a few more tags finished.  I think this is my favorite of the bunch.  Cut strips from magazines, text stamp, my zentangle heart.  The hat was a happy accident; I had cut the flowers out of a magazine but when I turned them sideways I noticed it was in the shape of a hat so ta-da!  Don't you just love happy accidents :-)

L is kind of the "queen" of our group.  She's been in the district the longest so she got the most elaborate one.  The "queen" is some small foam letters I painted with gold.  The bottom embellishment is plain old aluminum foil that I embossed, drew on with a red sharpie, then used some acrylic ink on.

This is K, our choir teacher (hence the scraps of music torn from an old hymnal).  That stuff on the top is my last attempt at trying to make an acrylic skin.  I swear, I've read every book, watched every video, and am just poo at trying to get one of those suckers.  Maybe because I'm trying to do it from old books?  Anyway, I had this whole page of a song titled we'll have fun when we sing but it wasn't transparent enough so I just cut the title off and attached it with those cute little heart brads I found at Michael's (the craft store).  Her dress is a piece of transparency that I had printed bubbles on for my altered book page and I drew the belt with sharpie (again).

Last but not least.  C is a cat fiend, so her cat got the crown instead of her!

So here's my happy result.  It really doesn't look that great on here but I'm super stoked.  I carved this random pattern on one of those foam trays that chicken comes on and coated it with black paint.  No big deal. 
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But, when I layed it down on a magazine sheet that I had soaked with an orange-based cleaner some of those random colors came through, along with some of the gesso.  T
You'll just have to take my word for it, it's cool and I'll probably be carving my little heart out now (I eat a lot of chicken LOL