Silver Boughs Tag

Hi.  My last tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

My mixed media are stamping, heat embossing, and die cutting

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Linky closes on the 23rd.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Pines (SU), Bauble Set (?)

Ink:   WOW Embossing Pad

Paper:   Pool Party Cordinations (ret. SU)), Silver Foil (SU), Neenah

Other:  Long Island Teal EP (WOW), Silver EP (SU), Heirloom Ornament Die (Splbndrs), Pine Die (SU), Silver cord (SU), Organnza Ribbon (Joann's)

Fun Snowflakes Tag

Hi.  I'm back with another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

I had some fun with this one!

My mixed media are stamping, Copic coloring, and stenciling with shimmer paste

This is a borrowed stamp that I enjoyed coloring with Copic Makers. 

The stamp is called Snowflakes.

After I cut it down, I used some shimmer paste through a stencil to make some snow.

It's layered up on green and red cardstock .

I should have used some glaze on the glasses but it's not too late.

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snowflakes (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Real Red, Cucumber Crush (SU)

Other:  Copic Markers (R59, R29, $35, YR18, YG17, YG67, G14, E23, #25, Black, C00, E000), Cosmic Shimmer Paste, Snowfall Stencil (SSS)

Snowman Joy Tag

Another tag for

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

I think this is my favorite.

This guy always makes me smile!

My mixed media are stamping, watercolor with salt, Faux Enamel technique, tearing,

glitter glue

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Challenge closes on the 23rd

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Dapper Denim (SU)

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches 140 lb. cold press), Whisper White, Cardboard from frozen pizza box

Other:  Snowman Joy Die (PB), Clear EP (WOW), Glitter, Gansai Tambi Watercolors, Snowflake Button, Iridescent Ribbon, Thick Twine (SU), Dazzling Details (SU) 

Tall Pine Trees Tag

Hi, I'm back with another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

My mixed media are stamping, heat embossing, alcohol ink and die cuts.

I pulled out a piece I'd done with alcohol inks.  I believe is was greens

and silver mixative.  I didn't make note of it.

I used some snippets of Glimmer paper and die cut these Tall Pine Trees.

The tag die was one of the things I picked up at Catherine Pooler's

recent Trunk Show in Raleigh.  I love the shape and of course had to

have it despite vowing I wouldn't buy much.  Ha!

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Holiday Sayings (Inky Antics)

Ink:   WOW Embossing Pad

Paper:   Neenah, Photo, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (SU)

Other:  White EP (SU), Alcohol Inks (Ranger), Tall Pine Trees Die (Frantic Stamper), Frame Die (Catherine Pooler), Seam Binding

Enameled Ornament Tag

Hello again.  I'm back with another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Making tags gives me the opportunity to use some of those
bits and pieces that have been adding up all year.

My Mixed Media are faux enamel, die cuts, embossing, stamping and spraying.

(Actually the background is from over spray.)

I apologize for the blur.  My camera does not like shine!

The ornament is one I did using the Faux Enamel technique.

You can read about this technique here and here and here.

Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Season's Gifts (PB)

Ink:   Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Paper:   Cherry Cobbler, Neenah, cardboard from a frozen pie box

Other:  Clear EP (WOW), Green EP (Zing), Glitter, Wire Cording (Mikes), Pine Bough EF (SU), Classic Ornament Die (MB)

Snowy Sleigh Tag

Hello Friends.

I'm back with another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

My mixed media are stamping, heat embossing, chunky embossing powder, and die cutting.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Christmas Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   WOW Embossing Pad, Whisper White

Paper:   Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Champagne Foil (all SU)

Other:  Main Street Pinpoint Tags Die (PS), Sleigh (Gina Marie), Precious Hearts Die (MB), Seam Binding (SU), White EP (SU), Chunky White EP (Frantage)

Home in the Woods Tag

Hello friends.  Today I have another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

My mixed media are Embossing, Embossing folder Stamping, Watercolor, Die Cutting and Stamping.

I was playing around with embossing folders for our CAS Mix Up Challenge 

and used some bits and pieces for this tag.

I had embossed some of these tall trees with watercolor paper and painted them.

Then I fussy cut two of them out.

I inked the raised area on the embossing folder, spritzed and stamped on

a tag cut from watercolor paper.

There's a snowbank lightly colored on mixed media paper near the bottom
but the camera didn't want to pick it up!

The house was stamped and watercolored and a
 I fussy cut the stamped wreath to decorate the door.

Loll's Tag Challenge is open until the 23rd

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Holiday Home (ret. SU)

Ink:   Archival Jet Black, Iced Spruce (DI & DM), Cherry Cobbler Marker (SU)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press), Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 series)

Other:  Tall Pines EF (TH), Homemade Holidays Die (ret. SU)

Snowflake Joy Tag

Hi.  I have another tag for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas

My mixed media are stamping, smooshing with re-inkers and Frost White paint and die cutting.

I've smooshed some coated cardstock in spritzed re-inker and Frost White paint.

When it was dry, I cut the piece in half, snipped of the top corners and 

put it on a piece of Glimmer paper cut just a little larger.

The snowflake frame was also cut from glimmer paper and 

I stamped and heat embossed the NBUS JOY sentiment.

I put a drop of silver glitter glue in the center of each snowflake 

to tie in to the tinsel topping.

You can find Loll's Challenge here.

You can join in until November 23rd.

Look what I saw yesterday.....

This guy was sitting on top of the bird feeder right outside our window.

I kept creeping closer until I was only about 6 feet away.

It gives the term bird feeder a whole new meaning!

No feathers were left over so we don't think he feasted on any of our resident friends.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Joy A14457 (IO)

Ink:   Whisper White

Paper:   Glimmer (SU), Coated

Other:  Simple Pinpoint Snowflake Frame Die (PS), White EP, Little Snowflake Die (IO), Silver Tinsel (TH)

Gingerbread Tag

Hello.  Are you ready for the weekend?
I still look forward to weekends even though I'm retired.

I have another tag for Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas.

This is my favorite gingerbread stamp!  I picked it up at a stamp show

several years ago.  He's so easy to stamp on brown cardstock.

I stamped him, heat embossed the stamping and stenciled the

"cracks" over him.  I find that Sharpies work well for coloring

his buttons and bow.

Stenciling with a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil and a Clarity Brush 

made easy work of the base of the tag. The tag is one that Christine sent me.

I've finished this off with some snippets of Cherry Cobbler

a wooden snowflake and some scrunched seam binding.

Loll has done fantastic mixed media tags and each day a friend joins her

with another outstanding Christmas tag.

So much inspiration there!

You can enter the challenge until the 23rd.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gingerbread Boy (Rubber Cottage)

Ink:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Baked Brown Sugar

Paper:   Baked Brown Sugar, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Tag

Other:  White EP, Layering Stencil #32 (TH), Texture Scraped Paint Stencil (ret. MB), Wooden Snowflake, Seam Binding (ret. SU)

Guest Designing for Twelve Tags of Christmas Day Four

Hello Friends.  I'm so glad you could stop by today!

I am honored to be Guest Designing at
Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends

 

Here's my tag.

This fun little snowman was stamped on a die cut tag with Versafine ink

and colored with watercolor pencils and blended with a Blender Pen.

I had some fun with non-traditional Christmas colors.

The holly berries are little red rhinestones and his cap has Flower Soft

to add some dimension.

My mixed media are stamping, coloring with colored pencils, blending, flower soft and die cuts.

I hope you'll check out all the fantastic tags at
Loll's challenge and maybe add a few tags of your own to the gallery.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Jolly Friends Holiday, Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Bermuda Bay (SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Pin Point Mainstreet Tags Dies (PS), Watercolor Pencils, Polar White Flower Soft, Snow EF (Darice)

Warm Wishes Christmas Tag

Hello friends.  The sun is shining here and the leaves are brightly colored.

I hope your view is as nice!

Today I'm sharing a Christmas tag.

It seems that it's the season for Christmas tags!

I stamped a Penny Black poinsettia with Memento ink and

colored with Copic Markers.

For a softer look I cut a piece of vellum to add to the die cut tag 

and added a frame cut from the same die and a smaller one.

I fussy cut the poinsettia to add to the tag front.

The joy is cut from Glimmer paper and I added some

Gold Glitter Glue to the center.

I'm adding this to Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas Event.

My mixed media are Stamping, Copic Colouring, Fussy Cutting, Die Cutting, Vellum, and Glitter.

I'm also joining in at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Anything Goes: Option Anything but a Card.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Warm Wishes (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Vellum, Glimmer

Other:  Pinpoint Mainstreet Tags Die (Poppystamps), Greetings Die (PB)

More Tags

Hello friends.

These are the last of my tags for
Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends.

 First up was a die cut piece with the sentiment all stamped and embossed.

I can't find the sentiment in my collection so I'm not sure where it came from.

The poinsettia was all assembled and miraculously intact.

I stamped and heat embossed a flourish for the flower to sit on,
adhered the die cut design piece to a silver foil die cut tag, and tied a ribbon on.

The second tag is my favorite of all my tags this year.

The image was all stamped and colored.  It was a stamp borrowed from a friend

who had bought the set at a yard sale.  I believe it was made by Stampin' Up!

but I have no idea of the name of the set.

I believe the image was colored with Stampin' Up! Markers.

I die cut the image into a tag, then used a Zig glue pen on the pears

and sprinkled some glitter over it.

I added a thin strip of gold glitter paper on the bottom to 

hide the fact that the piece was too short for the pinpoints on the bottom.

In the light the glitter sparkles beautifully.  The camera doesn't want to show that.

Using stamping, marker coloring, heat embossing, die cutting and glitter.

This tag was backed with another die cut piece of whisper white for stability.

Now I need to start shopping to have something to put the tags on.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Tag Recipe (tag 1)

Stamps:  Sentiments (?)

Ink:   Encore Silver

Paper:   Silver Foil, Whisper White (SU)

Other:  Silver EP (SU), Timeless Rectangles die (Spellbinders), Poinpoint Mainstreet Tags Die (PS), Poinsettia Parade Die (SSS)

Tag Recipe (tag 2)

Stamps:  Tree (?), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:  Jet Black StazOn, Encore Gold

Paper:  Whisper White, Gold Glimmer (SU)

Other:  Basic Bookmark 3 (PTI), Zig 2 way glue pen, gold glitter

Snowflakes Tags

Hello, friends.

Another week has whooshed by!

Christmas will be here before we know it and we'll have presents
that need tags!

Here are two more tags that I have ready.

Friday was the twelfth day of
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends

Fortunately we can join the challenge until the 24th.

Using stamping, heat embossing, Brushos and die cuts.

The rest of this piece was used on this card.  The back piece is Concord Crush.

It wanted to photograph in blue.

Using stamping, heat embossing, sponging and die cuts.

I found the design piece for this tag in the UFO box and die cut it.  I had a few little snowflakes

left over from last month's classes. It went together so quick.  Love it when that happens!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Tag Recipe (tag 1)

Stamps:  Dazzling Snowflake (HA)

Ink:   Whisper White

Paper:   Concord Crush, Mixed Media (Strathmore), Dazzling Details Glimmer,  Champagne Foil (SU)

Other:  Brusho Crystals, White EP (SU), Snowflake Die (IO), Greetings Die (PB), Sequins (LI)

Tag Recipe (tag 2)

Stamps:  Holiday Snippets (PB), Tin of Tags (SU)

Ink:  Encore Silver, Pool Party (SU)

Paper:  Pool Party, Whisper White, Champagne Foil (SU)

Other:  Pinpoint Mainstreet Tags (PS), Silver EP, Sponge Dauber, Rhinestones (SU), Snowflake Dies (IO), 

Tweet Christmas Wishes

Hi there.

I've still got some tags to share for
Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends

This one is one of my favorites

Using stamping, watercolor, die cuts, fussy cutting and marker coloring

A while back I took a whole sheet of  watercolor paper and randomly stamped 

with this Penny Black leaf stamp using green ink.

Then I spritzed the whole piece and let the colors run.

The tweet wittle bird was colored with markers.

and a twofer

Using stamping, sponging, marker coloring, dry embossing

This tag won Honourable Mention

I found these snowmen waiting for their wardrobes to be colored.

I kind of like the horizontal placement for a tag.  

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Tag Recipe  (tag 1)

Stamps:  Wondrous, Christmas Memories (PB), Christmas Treasures (wish.com)

Ink:   StazOn Timber Brown, Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz (SU), SU Markers (Real Red, Baked Brown Sugar, Crisp Cantaloupe)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press), Whisper White, Chocolate Chip

Other:  Pinpoint Mainstree Tags (PS), Woodland Branch (MB)

Tag Recipe (tag 2)

Stamps:  Frosty Friends (SU), Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink: StazOn Black,  SU Markers

Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Other:  Snowflake EF, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding (ret. SU), 

Ornament Tags

Hello.

I'm sharing some more tags today.

I'm behind so I'm doubling up.

These are for Loll's Tag Event

Using stamping, coloring with markers, heat embossing, die cutting and fussy cutting.

This was done on a die cut stitched rectangle that had a sprig of holly stamped
and colored.  I believe the holly was colored by swiping markers on a
palette and picking up the color with a Blender Pen.

I went over the stems and some of the leaves with a Gold Gel Pen for a little
elegance.

The ornament was stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink, smacked in the VersaMark
and clear embossed so it is shiny like the vintage glass balls
that are among my favorite tree decorations.

I stamped the sentiment crooked (as usual) and had to do another a put it on top.

I'd gotten behind so here's another tag.

Using stamping, heat embossing, punches, die cuts, watercolor and dry embossing.

I found this ornament that had been punched from a piece of watercolor. 

I'm thinking the coloring was done with Brushos...or maybe not.

I added a little silver joy to the center of the ornament and some twine

to hang it from.

The pine sprigs were stamped with white pigment ink and heat embossed

and the sentiment was also heat embossed, this time with silver.

To add a bit more texture, I used my favorite embossing folder on the larger 

background tag and tied it all up with some silver twine.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Recipe (Tag 1)

Stamps:  Ornamental Pines, Delicate Ornaments (retired SU), Holiday Snippets

Ink:   Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green, SU Markers, Wild Wasabi, Real Red, Garden Green)

Paper:   Neena

Other:  Stitched Rectangles Die (LI), VersaMark, Clear EP, Gold Gel Pen, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding

Recipe (Tag 2)

Stamps:  Christmas Pines (SU)

Ink:  Whisper White (SU), Encore Gold

Paper:  Cucumber Crush, Glimmer Silver (SU), Neena, Watercolor

Other:  Brusho (?), Joy Die (Elizabeth Crafts), Main St. Pinpoint Tags Dies (PS), White EP, Silver EP (SU), Square Lattice EF, Ornament Punch, Silver Twine (ret. SU)