This project was created by Joanne Hughes with products supplied by Mixed Media Art, as part of the Mixed Media Art Design Team 2021.

Materials List

• Dina Wakley Media Assorted tags MDA 64619
• Dina Wakley gloss sprays Marine and Tangelo
• Tim Holtz Idealogy Paper Dolls TH93555
• Tim Holtz Idealogy Small Talk Stickers TH93704
• Tim Holtz Crinkle ribbon TH93020
• Tim Holtz Stamps French Market CSS25863
• Tim Holtz Stamps Artful Flight CMS069
• Tim Holtz Stamps Creative Muse CMS046

To create your tag

Begin by spraying gloss sprays onto your craft mat and lightly spritz with water.  Swipe tag through until you are happy with coverage.  Use yours fingers to move colour around if necessary, especially around the hole.

Select a suitable person from the Paper Dolls pack and cut the head off to use as a seat!  Cover the white edges of the doll with black ink.  I use Ranger Archival Jet Black but a marker or paint will do.

Using the Jet Black Archival Ink, stamp the bird in a position to replace the head of your chosen doll.  Keep in mind the positioning of the head too!

Stamp the diamonds, 13 and birds around the tag using photo as a guide.  Ink the tag edges with black.

Choose, cut out and ink the edges of an appropriate Small Talk Sticker to match your doll and  position around the tag.  I found these stickers were sticky enough not to need glue, even after handling to ink edges.

Lastly spray the gloss spray direct to the crinkle ribbon and note the vibrancy of the colours!  The acrylic paint dries quickly and makes the ribbon stiff and easy to handle. 

Finish by tying the ribbon through the hole on the top of the tag. 
Use white and black pens to emphasise the eyes of the doll and bird.

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Joanne Hughes loves to share her knowledge and ideas with anyone who will listen,  and has worked with Michelle and Mixed Media Art at the Picture to Page shows for many years, demonstrating and behind the make’N’take table.  She is thrilled and honoured to kick start the Mixed Media Art Design Team 2021.  There is a story behind each of her pieces and she is only too happy to share with you.

Joanne is mum to three adult children and lives in the same house she and her husband bought in 1982 and has been craft making in various forms for as long as she can remember – from macrame in the 70’s to considering herself a Mixed Media Artist, Joanne is a “Jill” of all trades, focussing on her love of stationery and everything that goes with it – paper, pens, inks, paints and stickers, along with the tools and techniques of the creative process.  When she is not making a book, she is thinking of the next one, be it a journal, letter journal, hand made or altered book.  She is a hands on crafter, loving messy play with glues, inks and paints.