12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Four

Day Four of Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas and I'm still keeping on target even with a football game, a babysitting stint, and lots of drying time. I love this tag. It was fun with distress stains and Rock Candy Crackle. I love texture and dimension and this tag has it all. It was such a cool idea to fill the die cut 25 with glossy accents against the background paper. What a great effect. Can't wait to see tomorrow's project!

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Three

Today's tag from Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas was one (or should I say two) full of inspiration. He used one of his older techniques where you make your own stamp pad colored to fit the stamp. I don't know why I didn't think of this technique when I saw this stamp. It's the perfect technique. What an easy way to color the Season's Silhouettes Christmas stamp with all of the various greetings.  I haven't started my Christmas cards yet, but I think I know what I am going to do. I've got the stamp and ink pad ready to go. Add the heirloom gold Perfect Pearl mist and stamp on Kraft paper; it has the look of vintage, with a minimum of effort. The greenery from the festive greenery die are a great added touch. I love Tim's technique of using alcohol ink to color the bling. I didn't do that on this tag since I had the perfect red gems from the jeweled inspirations collection at Creative Inspirations Paints. I know I will do the alcohol ink on bling in the future. The added bonus from the Day 3 tag is the second tag.

Stars

No I wasn't drunk when I took this picture. I had to use my camera because the star is actually dimensional. Have I mentioned that using my camera to take photos of my cards is not my strong point.  Actually the card looks good in real life.
When I saw that the theme of the challenges at Simon Says Stamp and Show and Ink on my Fingers Sunday Challenge was stars, I knew I wanted to try and use this Sizzix 10 point  star die. I had purchased it on sale a while back because I thought it was a cool die. I think I know why it was on sale now. It was a bit tedious to put together. I do like the end result though. The background was dry embossed using a Cuttlebut folder and highlighted with Snow Cap ink.

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day Two

As Tim is finalizing his Day 3, I finally finished the Day 2 tag. I did have a few interuptions, but I still finished on day 2. I love today's tag. It uses one of my favor TH dies. I just love the deer. I did have to make a few alterations today. For my tag background I did not have the seasonal kraft resist. I do have the original kraft resist, so I chose a portion of the world sheet. I thought that the rays reminded me of an ornament. Anyway, it's as close to the seasonal as I could get. My muse token isn't seasonal, but I thought that the word "significant" works. The deer is wearing tinsel and a jingle bell. After a few hours sleep, I'll be ready for day 3.
Again I'll be linking up with Tim's blog, Inspiration Emporium, and All Thing Tim.

Ornaments, No Cards

This week Blogger's Challenge is Anything but a Card. I've been on an ornament making kick for the past week, so I decided to make a few more for this challenge and for the Outlines Rubber Stamp Monday Challenge which is Hang it up.

The first ornament was a frame I found at Hobby Lobby, For the center I stamped a partial image from an Outlines Rubber Stamp onto a piece of the music Tim Holtz tissue wrap. I adhered the tissue to a piece of cardstock. The metal sentiment come from my stash.

The second ornament I actually made several years ago using a glass ornament, LuminArte Polished Pigments, and the LuminArte solution. The ornament has sat in its box since then. When I looked at it yesterday, I thought that it needed some image stamped on it. The little deer is from Artistic Outpost's Frosty and Friends. I think that the image livens up the ornament.

The third ornament is a simple bird die cut which I dry embossed and added the branch. I've been wanting to try out the die; it makes a great ornament.

Now, as soon as my girls set up the tree, I'll have somewhere to hand these.

Christmas Wishes

This card is an example of a Double Twisted Easel card (a technique from the new TJ 3D and FUN FOLD CD) Technique Junkies has been blog hopping with different vendors all week. This is a technique they challenged us to try.
Several of my favorite challenge sites have some sort of Christmas theme in their challenges. Kraft Journal challenges us to create a Christmas card (the base card is Kraft). Tuesday Throwdown is looking for a masculine holiday card. City Crafter says Santa is Coming and wants to see Santa. The Artistic Stamper's December challenge is Christmas.
All of my stamped images and sentiment are from Artistic Outpost's Frosty and Friends. I love these stamps. They are so cute without being cutesie. The Design Paper on the card base is from My Mind's Eye Christmas Lost and Found -- love that bling. The center is made from grungeboard die cut into holly leaves and colored using Pan Pastels.
I love that the card makes a great holiday decoration, but that it also folds down flat for mailing,

12 Tags of Christmas -- Day One

Yes, we know Christmas is just around the corner. Tim Holtz has started the season with his 12 Tags of Christmas. Today is day 1.
My tag follows Tim's fairly closely. I look at this experience as being in a class taught by Tim. If I can follow what he does closely, I then can do the techniques on other projects myself. I have to thank my friend Jan for the glittery Noel. She had sent it to me as a gift when I received an order from her. I decided that I didn't need to make another Noel when I had a beautiful one all ready for me to use. I was happy that Tim started with the pinecones. I love that die. Now we're just hours away from the next tag.
I'm entering my tag in the Grungy Monday challenge which is winter holiday. I'm also playing along with All Things Tim (Yahoo Group) and Inspiration Emporium.