12 Tags of Christmas - Day 10

I managed to squeeze in one more tag for the 12 Tags of Christmas with a feminine twist. This tag was inspired by Carly's cute tag on day 10.

I was amazed at how fast this one came together and I love how it turned out. My creation also fits the current challenge at Little Tangles, which is to create a tag.

Materials used:

Cardstock: Smooth Bristol

Tag die: Studio Calico

Ink: Distress Inks (evergreen bow, tumbled glass, bundled sage, 

fossilized amber), Memento black

Stamps: Inkadinkado (trees), Lawn Fawn (fox), sentiment (SSS)

Colouring medium: Promarkers

Other: Clear Wink of Stella, Hemptique Metallic Classic cord

The day after I had created the tag, I turned it into a card, so that I could send it as a Christmas card. I started by reattaching my twine at the top of the tag. I did some more splattering on my Rustic cream card base (Papertrey Ink) using Fossilized amber distress ink mixed with a litte perfect pearls to create my own gold splatter. I shaped a length Hemptique cord using multi medium matte and stuck in into place by adhering my tag over it using pieces of foam tape.

Challenges:

Virginia's View Challenge - 21 All about glitter

Passion for Promarkers - 326 Mega Christmas challenge

Color Throwdown - 373 Any Christmas creation, any colours
Beccy's Place - 94 Any card or papercraft project

12 Tags of Christmas 2015 - Day 5

These tags were inspired by Kryssi's tags on day 5 of the annual challenge at the Ellen Hutson blog: 12 Tags of Christmas with a feminie twist.

Christmas UFOs?

This week's challenge at Shopping our Stash is all about UFOs, UnFinished Objects. I suppose we all have some unfinished (or abandoned) projects or elements hidden in our craft room. I know I do.

Last summer, I created several card panels by blending distress inks the way Jennifer McGuire demonstrated in one of her videos, found in this post on her blog, and sprinked pearlised water (using Perfect pearls) on the panels. I intended to create some shaker cards, but the panels ended up in a drawer. Until now...

I collected my panels, along with some other abandoned elements, and set out to turn one of these panels into a shaker card by die cutting a few of the stars (by CAS-ual Fridays) from the SOA Holiday Magic collection from the panel. After die cutting, I decided to abandon the idea of creating a shaker and do some inlaid stamping instead. (Does this exist? If not, I have just coined a new phrase). So, instead of inlaying the die cuts, I stamped the coordinating stamps behind the apertures onto a white card base (Neenah Solar white), heat embossed them using gold EP and adding a little festive shimmer using clear Wink of Stella. The sentiment was also heat embossed in gold.

Challenges:

SOS - 230 UFOs

Virginia's View Challenge - 21 All about glitter
Catherine Pooler - Parade of SOA Holiday cards
ATCAS - 78 Joy