A Little Late with A Lot on my Plate.

I have been swamped with great things in my life lately. It seems everything from teaching art to kids, getting my real estate courses finished, keeping my home life running smoothly, going on a mini weekend vacation to opening up a shop at a local crafters mall in San Juan Bautista has kept me running.

Oh yeah, Did I mention taxes are due???

And I know I forgot to mention that it is also time to reveal our monthly TAGALONG!

So here we go, Keeping with my theme of 1950's housewife, I felt it was time she learned to do the taxes. As you can see she did not have such a swell time. She crumpled up the forms and is calling for help.

I used my fab silver gellyroller pen to accent her dress but only after coloring in the black and white image with chalk and adding rick rack to her waist line. 

The phone has a rolled wire cord and the receiver has been cut away from the phone and placed in her hand.

I inkid the edge of paper that resembles the table.

I am very pleased with my tag this month, I had a lot of fun making it.

She is wearing a red seed bead bracelet and feeling just exhausted and overwhelmed. (kinda like me at times).

I added two pop dots to the back of her head and arms to make her really POP off the page. 

This was my original image. Ironing!!!

Why Do We Do THIS?

That time of the month is here again. I Mean the reveal of our Happy Homemaker Tag Along. This is to occur on the 10th of each month, and TODAY is the 10th. I get so excited to see what others have chosen to represent the month in our swap, and what new techniques we will see amongst the taggers. 

 I was asked by a very close family friend, "Why do you do this? I mean what is the point, what will you ever do with them? Isn't it a waste of time?"

OBVIOUSLY the family friend was a MAN and did not at all see the big picture, but none the less it did get me thinking about 'WHY' we do this. I wanted to have a bang up answer that would really show him...............Still thinking...........

In my recently acquired job of teaching art to children I introduced them to the 'TAG' world. I started my lesson by creating a power point presentation to teach about ATCs (artist trading cards). You can check out their work at my blog Little Hands Big Art.

While preparing my lesson I was especially pleased with slide # 8. 

(The Whole Presentation is at the end of this post)

It explains a few reasons 'Why We Do This' and leaves room for more reasons. If you have another reason, I'd love to add it to my list for future students to hear.

Now on to my Tag......

In keeping with my theme of 50's housewife, This sweet woman is setting up the living room with a new portable TV. Yippee. 

She was the initial inspiration.

I cut her out and thought about our family watching TV in March.

 'The Luck of the Irish' is a movie my children watched over and over and over and over.......

you get the idea.

 I was not sure everyone had heard of this nor did they have the same tradition as us, so, covered up went 'The Luck of the Irish' and in came something I was sure all my tagging friends could relate too.

please welcome the TV Dinner, 

and what would we be watching?  

Just look in the TV Guide. 

Not sure what this has to do with March, 

but at least you can see my process in creating this month's tag.

My daughter gave her input and strongly suggested that 

I add letters since the previous months both have lettering.

TECHNIQUE:   To the black part of the TV I added Glossy Accents by inkssentials. This gives the appearance of glass when it is fully dry.

I found a TV Guide on Google (I'm telling you they have everything) and yes it is from March in the 1950's  I then found pages from the inside of a TV guide and sized them to fit, printed them all out, glued them together and fastened them with a staple. 

I also added copper wire for those good 'ol rabbit ears. You remember right?

I like the angle of this photo because it really shows all the depth of this card. 

I HAD FUN CREATING and That's Why I Do This!

Now for a Feature Presentation!

 

SLIDE # 8  Remember The Question?

Thank You for sticking with me for this whole post. I am going to give away an Artist Trading Card /Tag that I have made to the first 4 people who leave a comment stating that they would like one. See you around blogland!!