12 Tags of Christmas: tag 7

I didn't have Tim's holly die, but i do have his holly stamp, so I stamped it onto glasseine with a mix of acrylic paint and distress ink, then spritzed with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls & cut out. The moon stamp is by Crafty Individuals.

Twelve tags: day 4

I absolutely loved making this one and I'm so pleased with the results!

I didn't have the snowman die that Tim used, so I stamped his retro Father Christmas instead and used the same technique for colouring him. I stamped a second image on white card, and cut out and layered his face and the white trim.

12 Tags of Christmas: day 3

Day 3 of Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas






This tag was not made with love & good cheer. It is mostly made of swearing and rage. I found the custom stamp pad technique really hard. I'm not terribly good at precision work and my ink bled all over the place. Then I lost the foliage I'd cut. Then I found it, stuck to the underside of the second craft tag. Then I knocked one of the re-inkers, which I'd neglected to re-cap, all over the first tag. Then I went and  bought a cardy online, to make myself feel better.

12 Tags of Christmas: tag 2

Another pretty slavish copy of Tim's gorgeous tag, but I don't have the time to exercise independant thought at the moment! It's so much easier & quicker when all the thinking has been dome for you.

I had the Kraft Resist, inks and Picket Fence stain. For the deer, I stamped one from one of Tim's seasonal silhouette sets using antique linen stain to get a softer look. I tried the splatter technique with the perfect pearls, but I only have gold and it doesn't show up as well as I expect the white does. The edging is a Martha Stewart punch painted in gold acrylic.

Really like the soft muted colours on this.

Thank you for your lovely comments yesterday, by the way. I am going to sit down tonight and make sure I visit each of your blogs x

12 tags of Christmas : Day 1

So excited this has started. Never played along before.

This is my version of Tim Holtz's divine tag.





edited...


Sorry, I posted in a rush earlier. Here's a clearer pic.

I had Tim's Noel and pine cone dies, the rest I improvised.

My pine cones look a bit pneumatic.  Madonna's conical boobed Vogue period springs to mind. I like it.