Tag, Day Ten

Here I am, up to double digits in my personal challenge to play in each day of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags. :)

Day Ten is sponsored by Lawn Fawn, and I had every intention of using a new Christmas set I bought a month or so ago. Then I saw Roxanne O'Brien's tags, and changed my mind. 

I was obviously inspired by Roxanne's use of a munched gingerbread and her "Oh Snap" sentiment. My version happens to come from Essentials by Ellen. Since this gingerbread is a solid stamp, I didn't have to colour him, simply stamp and emboss. When I cut him out, I ripped a rough edge across the one leg to go with the missing appendage. I used distress ink and a small acrylic block to create my ink smooshed background. A sentiment and some twine and this tag was done. Much more my speed than yesterday's extravaganza. ;) 

Supplies: white cardstock, Strathmore watercolour paper, Essentials by Ellen Tis the Season stamps, Memento tuxedo black, Brilliance coffee bean & mowed lawn distress inks, Zing clear embossing powder, Paper Smooches stitched tag die, green Divine Twine, pop-dot tape

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The Thing About Tags...

... is that, ultimately, little attention is paid to them. Tags go on gifts; the recipient ascertains that the gift is for them, and that's it. So the tag I present today, for Day 9 of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags event, will likely not ever be replicated again. 

It's a shaker tag! My good friend Emily was one of Tracey's Day 9 guests, and so I thought it only right to choose to be inspired by her tag. I have now decided that a shaker tag takes way more effort than can ever be justified! At least I find them complex to make. I started by cutting the round tag from white and blue cardstock, fun foam and acetate. I used a smaller circle die to cut the centre from the blue cardstock and the fun foam. Then stamped and coloured the snowman. I thought about stamping a few snowflakes, but decided they might distract from the sequins. The hard part, really, was finding the right adhesive to get the fun foam and the acetate to stick together! I now know that matte multi medium, which seems so awesome for everything else, DOES NOT WORK. Of course in the meantime, I had it spread all over the place, so had to be very careful as I laid strips of double-sided tape over top. So while I like the finished product, and think it will be fun on a parcel, let's say it will be a long time before I make another. :D 

Supplies: white & blue cardstock, fun foam, acetate, Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes stamp, Versafine onyx black ink, PApertrey Ink Tag Sale #4 & Spellbinders circle dies, Spectrum Noir & Sharpie markers, assorted Darice sequins

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Naughty or Nice Reminder

I needed to make a thank you card this weekend, so I thought I'd use it to remind you that Naughty or Nice Challenges is looking for monochrome thank you cards!

Here's my latest: 

I heat-embossed my flowers in white before sponging them in purple. I used the latest sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch for my card design. Easy and elegant! 
It never hurts to have a few thank you cards tucked away for when you need them, so why not join us! (We'd love to see a few *naughty* thank you cards!) You have until November 25th to join us. 

Supplies: white & purple cardstock, Paper Smooches Blossoming Buds & Mama Elephant Party Time stamps, Versamark & Stampin' Up lavender lace inks, Wow white embossing powder

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Eighth Day of Christmas Tags

After a break yesterday to introduce the newest Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge, I'm back with Day 8 of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags. Eventually, if I do manage to play along for all 25 tags, I'm just going to have to blitz post several in one day, but for now I'm happy to show one tag at a time. ;) 

As always, I could easily have been inspired by any of the tags, but picked the cute and rustic tags that Julie Tucker-Wolek made. I looked at the way she used patterned papers for both the tags and her snowmen, and the way she left her snowmen uncoloured otherwise. Here's my version: 

I used a stitched-border tag since I don't have a stitched snowman like Julie's. I left him uncoloured — and it was tough not to at least make his carrot nose orange! I also left him unembossed... I embossed one snowman and realized that he was just too black against the light papers. Also, maybe I don't have to heat-emboss everything. Hmm. So instead I stamped him once directly onto the tag, and once on patterned paper for paper-piecing his body. 
That's it from me for now... I have tags to make! :D 

Supplies: manila tag, My Mind's Eye All is Bright patterned papers, Hero Arts Snow Much Joy stamp, Memento tuxedo black ink, Paper Smooches stitched tag die, May Arts twine

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Do You Yodel?

Not surprisingly, Edna sure does! And the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers' new challenge is Y is for Yodelayeehoo — make a card with a music theme! My card for the challenge has a complete lack of snark...

I went to my Pinterest boards for inspiration, and found this card by Lucy Abrams. I even have the same background stamp! I decided to use green for my emboss resist background. Of course I decided that before looking at my glitter papers, and realized I didn't like any of them with the green. So I die cut my joy out of white, coloured over it with my Gelly Roll glitter pen, then layered on the Glossy Accents. I also cut two more out of bristol board for layering, and one out of gold pearl paper. Eventually, my die cut was dry, and I used the gold as a shadow behind the main sentiment. A close-up:

I added a few sequin stars and some gold and white twine to finish off the card. 
Of course, once I get going on a music theme, I run with it. (My crafting music collection is second only to cats...) I wandered over to Muse: ChristmasVisions for my inspiration this time. The muse this week is Chriss Blagrave with this card: 

I was inspired by the overall design of the card, the floral elements, the central sentiment, and the way the card is framed around the edge. Here is my musical version:

Ugh to that imperfection on the right side of the
frame. It's not there in real life!

I stamped a bunch of the poinsettias and leaves so I could play with different arrangements. I sponged the edges of the music paper to soften it a bit. The sentiment is embossed in gold. 
Some of my sisters of course managed to combine snark with their music! We also have Creepy Glowbugg (Gloria) as our latest guest designer. Check out their creations, and then I hope you'll join us! 

Supplies: (joy) white cardstock, Strathmore mixed media paper, gold pearl paper, Hero Arts musical collage stamp, PTI Wonderful Words: Joy die,  Colorbox frost white & mowed lawn distress ink, Wow white embossing powder, Gelli Roll clear glitter pen, Glossy Accents, Studio Calico sequins, Twinery gold shimmer twine, fun foam; (noel) white & DCWV gold metallic cardstock, Teresa Collins Santa's List patterned paper, WPlus9 Pretty Poinsettias stamps & dies, Papertrey Ink Think Big Favourites #8 stamp, Versamark, Memento ladybug & cottage ivy, Stampin' Up real red, Simon Says Stamp schoolhouse red & leaf green, Brilliance galaxy gold & old paper distress inks, Pirate's Gold embossing powder


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Day Seven Tag

It's a tag again today! I'm up to Day Seven of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags. 

Tracey may not believe it, but my tag is inspired by the two she made. I looked at the various elements of her tags: the naughty/nice checklist, the date and the Santa reference. I used some ledger-stye patterned paper as my tag base (adhered to a manila tag) as a subtle reference to the "list checked 2x" part of Tracey's tag. I stamped Santa just off the left side and the date just off the right. The naughty/nice is popped up with a bit of foam tape, and the two small tags tied on with some twine. 

I suppose I could have waited to check off the "nice" until I had decided whose gift the tag was going to be used for... ;)

Supplies: manila tag, green & Stampin' Up naturals white cardstock, Echo Park Christmas this & That patterned paper, Cavallini Vintage Christmas, Unity Winter Delivery Tag & Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey Tis the Season stamps, Memento Luxe rhubarb stalk, Colorbox evergreen & Versafine onyx black inks, Zing clear embossing powder, 1" circle punch, gold Sharpie, Lawnscaping mistletoe hemp cord, deco scissors, pop-dot tape

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