Showing posts with label Christmas tags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas tags. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Tags, tags are everywhere!

Seems that everyone is buzzing with the techniques and tags that you know who does every year for Christmas! I have to admit to following along and trying out some of them. Here are two that I've recently done that were inspired from watching (er, reading) along.

This one uses Tim Holtz stamps from Stampers Anonymous. I heat embossed the trees and snowflakes. The snowflake die is from Provo Craft and is cut out using grunge paper. I painted it with white craft paint and added some pearl luster medium too. It almost came out looking silver - hence the silver button in the center. I added a bit of stickles to the snowflakes here and there, but you can't really see them in the picture. The blue is faded jeans distress ink that is sponged on.



On this tag I used distress inks in pumice stone and vintage photo. The wood grain is an old back ground stamp from SU and stamped in Vintage photo - then I sponged around the edges with it too.

The sentiment and decorative element are from Papertrey ink (Big and Bold Holiday Wishes) and is stamped in Rich Cocoa Memento ink. The red is pure poppy Palette ink. It's hard to see "the" in Tis the Season due to the wood back ground stamp. If I did it again, I would probably use black ink.

The poinsettia is cut from grunge paper using nestabilities and I painted them with red craft paint. Added a bit of red stickles to the edges to make them stand out. The swirl die is from TH and it's also cut from grunge paper. I air brushed it using Copic's and then smeared some Star dust Stickles all over it.

Lastly, I used barn door distress ink to color the seam binding that I tied to the tag. I think this one is my favorite so far, which do you like best?



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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Christmas tags

Hi everyone! I think most of us saw a few of the 12 days of Christmas tags by Tim Holtz and wanted to try a few of his techniques. Well here is a tag I did using the Distress inks and water drops tech he showed us.
I used pine needles distress ink - sponged it on and then spritzed water into my hand and flung it on. I did come back and add some moon glow spritz to it to give it some holiday shine. The Sentiment is a GWP stamp from The Angel Company and the tree stamp is from SU lovely as a tree. The images are stamped in Memories Dye ink and embossed with clear ep. I added a very dark red (almost burgundy) layer to the back, punched a hole, used the crop a dile to add the big eyelet (TAC) and add the grosgrain ribbon.

This one was done with Alcohol inks. I used stonewashed, denim, pearl and blending solution. Added them all together randomly on my craft sheet and then ran the tag through the ink. It is so shimmery in real life. I stamped the snowflakes in versamark and embossed using bridal embossing powder - it really sparkles. The sentiment is from TAC called I love snowmen (retired) and the snowflake is also from TAC called Christmas postage (retired). I punched out some snowflakes and added some pearls from Kaiser crafts and stuck them on the tag to add some dimension. Some silver ribbon is tied to the top of the tag.


It was really fun to play with some of these techniques. So many ideas - so little time! Thanks for the inspiration, Tim!!!