Musing on Tags

It's another combination tag and card day! For the 14th day of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags, I was inspired not so much by any one tag as by the clean and simple design of many of them. My version: 

I do love a cute penguin! He's stamped in black and embossed, while the tag itself is embossed in silver. I added a little bit of blue sponging to the tag base before popping him on. The lights and hat trim have rock candy Stickles added — I did not expect it to make the marker run, but it did a little bit! I can live with it since it's "only a tag". 😉 I also added a bit to my fingers and added it to the ends of the twine... most metallic twines seem to fray if you look at them, don't they?  

I also played along in the current Muse: ChristmasVisions challenge, where this week's Muse is Chriss Blagrave, with this card: 

It took me a while to find my way into this card. I broke it down into some of its components... patterned paper as a main element, white silhouette images, large sentiment. And that led me to this: 

I've had this patterned paper quite a while, and thought it would make a perfect wintry night sky! I swapped out the houses on Chriss's card for trees, and added a dry-embossed strip of cardstock below but no ribbon. No gold on my card either, with a white sentiment and no ribbon. (Or dots on my trees.) 
Tomorrow life may get in the way... but I'll do my best to get a tag done!  

Supplies: (tag) Bienfang bristol, Neat & Tangled Santa's Wonderland, Swirly Twirly Tags & Essentials by Ellen Tis the Season stamps, Versamark & Versafine onyx black inks, Zing clear & silver embossing powders, Spectrum Noir markers, rock candy distress Stickles, Hemptique red, white & silver baker's twine, pop-dot tape; (card) white & Papertrey Ink soft stone cardstock, Echo Park patterned paper, (?) trees & Die-Versions Merry & Bright dies, Darice diagonal stripe embossing folder

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