25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020: DAY ONE!

It's here! The 2020 edition of 25 Days of Christmas Tags! This is the TENTH year Tracey McNeely has organized this fun event, and I'm thrilled to be part of her tag-making design team again, along with my talented teammates Carol Mayne, Kim Heggins, Joyce Merberg, Ardyth Percy-Robb and Lindsey Larsen. 

If you don't know about this tag-making extravaganza, be sure to click the 25 Days link above, where Tracey has explained how everything works. Essentially, by making tags inspired by each day's designs, and/or by commenting on design posts each day, YOU could win a prize offered by one of our 26 terrific sponsors! We have many returning sponsors as well as a few new ones for this year. 

Onto DAY ONE! Today we are welcoming Sunny Studio Stamps. 

For my first tag, I decided to go cute: 

Penguins? Yes please! To start, I grabbed a tag from my bin-of-many, masked off the top part, and used an ink pad to *swink* some colour onto the ice. Next, I reversed that mask, added another at the top, and blended some blue and purple ink for the sky. More masking put my penguin on the ice floe. I tried to add some glow to his string of lights with pencil crayons, but I'm not thrilled with the results. The stars, from the same set, are embossed in white, and the sentiments stamped in black and embossed with clear. 

Did you know that when you order from Sunny Studio, you get a little freebie die? I wanted to highlight that little bonus: 

I cut twelve of this little flower from red cardstock scraps, then six yellow centres. The evergreen needles are from Christmas Trimmings, and the sentiment from Merry Sentiments. 

This year, I'm going to try to emulate my tag teammate Joyce, and make a card each day along with my tags! (We'll see how long that lasts. :D) 

I love this die set, so of course it came out for my card. The sky is watercolour powder on watercolour paper, and the snow is generously spritzed with shimmer mist. Apart from waiting for those to dry, this card was quick to make! 

Remember, there are lots of prizes to be won during this almost-month-long event! Plus, you'll have all the tags you need a month before the big day! I hope you'll play along. 

Supplies: (penguining) Neenah white cardstock, Sunny Studio Stamps Penguin Pals stamps, Versamark, Versafine onyx black, Brilliance pearlescent sky blue & tumbled glass, blueprint sketch & shaded lilac distress inks, Wow clear gloss & ultra fine white embossing powder, Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, Neat & Tangled classic tag 1 die, Glossy Accents, scrap ribbon, Hemptique twine, $ store jingle bells, foam tape; (merry Christmas) Neenah white, scrap red & yellow cardstock, Sunny Studio Stamps Christmas Trimmings & Merry Sentiments stamps, Stampin' Up garden green ink, Sunny Studio Stamps flower & Studio Katia dotted shaker tag dies, icicle Stickles, Hemptique twine; (card) Neenah white, Papertrey Ink Smoky Shadow & Stampin' Up real red cardstock, Canson watercolour paper, Sunny Studio Stamps Santa Claus Lane stamps, Versamark, Memento tuxedo black & Stampin' Up real red ink, Wow clear sparkle embossing powder, Sunny Studio Stamps rustic winter dies, Cosmo Cricket pool pixie paint, Tsukineko sparkle sheer shimmer spray