time and busyness has prevented me from playing along at
tag tuesday for the past few weeks. but i am joining in this week and the prompt this week is "america." at first i thought of using any number of patriotic images on collage sheets -- i have so many of them. but then i thought of taking a different approach and i thought of what things are distinctly american, which then left me thinking what did they mean by "america" anyway? north america? south america? central america? united states of america? but i directed my focus to the united states which is where i live. so i decided my tag would be a tribute to jazz music which originates in the united states.
i have a wonderful
stampsmith stamp of louis armstrong which i decided would be my focus point. i stamped it and lightly colored it with colored pencils. for the tag background i used a couple different designer digital papers from
gecko galz on which i printed some sheet music -- the famous "what a wonderful world" and also the word "jazz" which is a digital stamp from the
stitchy bear "all that jazz" collection of digital stamps. i added some musical notes stickers and a stamped a few stars.
i hope you enjoy. love to all.
