Amanda's take on TN Thursday! TAG ALBUM!

 Hello SC fans!

Have you been enjoying all the TN Thursday inspiration?! Some incredible projects are being shared!

Rather than weekly, I am joining in once a month. My theme will be to choose a word to focus on for each month.

And rather than a Travelers Notebook, I am using a Tag book.

Today I will share my book, as well as my inspiration for January from Kylie's prompts.

My Tag book

Before I share my inspiration, let me show you my tag book and how I created it.

I taped together enough Tab Tags for 12 months of the year. These Studio Light - World Watercolor Tags by Art by Marlene are awesome. After taping together, I applied a coat of Gesso to each page (mostly to cover the tape).

To decorate my front and back cover I used:

• Liquitex Inks - I used Magenta, Prussian Blue and White.
• Dina Wakley Media Collage Tissue Paper - Text Collage
• Dina Wakley Media - Stencil - Done is Better

To colour the cover, I used a wide brush, to brush the pink and blue inks onto the tag.

Once dry, I droppered more ink onto the cover, (Including adding white this time) and used the air puffer tool to blow the ink around.

Plus I added some white splatters of the ink.

Here is the front!

For the front, I ripped and scrunched some Dina Wakley tissue paper and glued it down.

And I selected a quote from the Dina Wakley Media - Stencil - Done is Better and stenciled it on with some white modeling paste.

Finished with some white and black pen doodling!

Now for my January inspiration and word: OPTIMISM

The January TN prompts I used were: Stencils/texture; Inks and transfers.

The products in store were:

• STENCIL: Tim Holtz - Stencil
• INKS: Distress Oxides Ink Pads
• TRANSFERS: Dress My Craft - Transfer Me - Queen Birds

I hope I can maintain an attitude of optimism throughout January, despite the weird covid stuff happening everywhere! 

Gotta stay positive!

Thanks for looking!

Amanda