Throughout my childhood I have fond memories of my mum quoting beautiful lines of poetry, prose and sayings. She loved words and poetry.
I decided to base this week's tag on one of her favourites and mine. It's from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and it holds lovely memories of my dear mum.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in.
I tried to create a mossy, grassy bank where Titania might lay down and sleep!
I used a base of lime green acrylic for the tag, tissue paper and silk. I then sprayed them with walnut ink. I punched ivy leaves out the the tissue and layered them around the edge of the tag using Sticky Fixits to give depth. I gathered the silk into little mounds and sewed it on to the tag, adding green and brown beads. I used fragments of lime green silk ribbon, and frayed it and glued it to the tag to represent grass, and I tucked pictures of oxlip flowers here and there around the tag. The centre is a real butterfly wing laid on a piece of silk and covered with a clear acrylic dome.
I did try adding some of the other flowers mentioned but it all started looking too 'busy'.
