a month of music - DAY SEVENTEEN

A SONG FOR SOMEONE WHO'S HURTING

Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
Mama say eventually this hurting will end
But the shockwaves on my bones will linger
Like the ghost of you here in my bed

When I was lost you thought me a beautiful find
Sometimes I think of you sleeping, so sleep for a while
I find myself asking who'd do this to love
And the white shouldered mountains they pointed above

Lord you just dropped me here by the side of this road
Out here's too cold and I don't want to walk it alone
I've got a bottle of your blood inside me
And an old beggar's prayer on the tip of my tongue

Mama said lift your head from the sieve of your hands
Mama say eventually this hurting will end

a month of music - DAY SIXTEEN

A ROCK SONG

Who else? GT and the Destroyers.

I used Photoshop and digi elements from the Let It Rock kit from here.

a month of music - DAY FIFTEEN

A SONG THAT TELLS A STORY

STAN by Eminem

I used a picture of bricks, and some graffiti fonts, to make this tag in Photoshop, then glued the images to black Bazzill.

a month of music - DAY FOURTEEN

AN OLD SONG MADE NEW

My sister played this to me and I fell in love with it on the spot.

I get tired and upset
And I'm trying to care a little less
When I Google, I only get depressed
I was taught to dodge those issues, I was told

Don't worry, there's no doubt
There's always something to cry about
When you're stuck in an angry crowd
They don't think what they say before they open their mouth

You gotta pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And bury them beneath the sea
I don't care what the people may say
What the people may say about me

Pack up your troubles, get your old kit bag
Don't worry about the cavalries
I don't care what the whisperers say
'Cause they whisper too loud for me

Hot topic, maybe I should drop it
It's a touchy subject
And I like to tiptoe 'round
The ship going down

We got no penny, no pound
So if your business is running out
It's not my business to talk about
They don't think what to say before they open their mouth

You gotta pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And bury them beneath the sea
I don't care what the people may say
What the people may say about me

Pack up your troubles, get your old kit bag
Don't worry about the cavalries
I don't care what the whisperers say
'Cause they whisper too loud for me

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
And bury them beneath the sea
I don't care what the people may say
What the people may say about me

Pack up your troubles, get your old kit bag
Don't worry about the cavalries
I don't care what the whisperers say
'Cause they whisper too loud for me

a month of music - DAY THIRTEEN

DAY THIRTEEN

A SONG FROM A MOVIE

I chose this beautiful piece from Last of the Mohicans (a movie I've watched about a million times).

On the front, I used T!ms' music stamp and clear embossing powder, and heat embossed the image right onto the uncoloured tag. I then used Bundled Sage and Vintage Photo Distress Inks to colour the background, and then stamped with Staz-On and the tree stamp over top of that.
I had hoped that the Staz-On would stick over top of the embossing, but nope -- however I kind of like the music floating through the trees so I left it.

For the back, I used a scrap of Kaiser paper, a Kaiser die-cut, and some clear Dymo tape over scraps of cardstock. I finished off with a swipe of Pinecone ink round the edges.

a month of music - DAY TWELVE

DAY TWELVE

A ONE HIT WONDER

HOW BIZARRE by OMC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY&ob=av3e

a month of music - DAY ELEVEN

A SONG BY A FAVOURITE BAND

YELLOW by COLDPLAY

Heres' the link to the song (the lyrics are in the clip)

To make the tag, I used another of my very favourite techniques. This one involves limes or lemons.

1. cut your limes and lemons in half. Set one half aside to dry out overnight. Squeeze the other into a glass and top up with ice, and gin & tonic or mojitos. Relax.

2. next day, use your applicator tool to ink the dry surface of the fruit. If you press hard, some of the juice will leak out and blur the print, this may or may not be what you want. Best to practise on some scrap paper first.

3. Press the fruit carefully onto the paper.

I also used Tims' umbrella man on a piece of plastic packaging, I just love this stamp and would use it everywhere if I could.