These are my 12 Days of Christmas tags inspired by Mr Tim Holtz. They took me a bit longer than twelve days to do due to a horrible cold and have taken a good couple of hours to blog!
They are now hanging above my fire place!
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
No 1
Background-Spritzed with mica sprays. Stamped with music script, words and border stamps. The lower third was embossed with a cuttlebug folder (diamonds) the raised areas were then 'coloured' with two way glue and allowed to dry and then silver guilding flakes were applied. The pears were done in the same way but onto acetate. The bird was also stamped onto acetate and onto angelina fibres (ironed) and applied to the back this was cut out and applied to the background with foam tape.
No 2
Background- Canvas material painted with acrylics scraped on using a credit card. Printed paper and embossed metal applied to lower half. the snowman was stamped on to tissue and coloured on the back with white acrylic allowed to dry and then applied to the canvas with glue stick and the snowflake with an eyelet.
No 3
Background- Masked and coloured with distress inks. Santa was stamped onto tissue and applied to the background with glue stick. The words are stamped in archival onto painted grungeboard and backed with embossed metal. The 25 is metal and applied with silicon glue.
No 4
Background- spritzed with mica sprays and embossed with cuttlebug embossing folder (birds in tree) then coloured with distress inks. A strip of paper spritzed and stamp was applied down one side. The Angel is made from 'Butterfly kisses' fairy stamp with her wings replaced with grungeboard wings which have been embossed and painted with pearl dabber. Her dress has been stamped with a border stamp with paint and sprinkled with irridesant glitter.
The word 'angel' was stamped with archival black and attached with glue and foam tape.
No 5
Bracground- Spritzed with mica sprays, border stamped in archival black, the word 'Snow' is grungeboard painted with picket fence crackle.
The 'snowmen' are hand cut from coloured card and their faces are my 2 lovely grandsons!
No6
Background- Swirly stamp embossed in clear and then coloured with distress inks. The reindeer is grungeboard embossed in silver then coloured with distress inks. 'Dream is stamped with archival black and the flower is also coloured with distress ink and attached with a brad.
No 7
Background- I embossed in clear the script background and the border stamps onto navy card then applied light blue dabber paint with a baby wipe (as shown on Tims blog) wiping away excess before fully dry to allow the embossed images to show through.
The photo is my grandson holding his Santa (made by him and my youngest son) as you can see he was so please with what they had made! This was printed on paper from a normal printer, this I then wiped over with Judikins micro glaze (which stops the ink from smudging if it gets wet). then a button (7 gypsies) was added.
No 8
Background- Embossed with cuttlebug folder (birds in tree) then swished over with versamark and embossed in clear, then coloured with distress inks. The bottom third is covered with paper spritzed with mica sprays and stamped with music script. The birds (Crafty Individuals) are stamped onto seperate card twice, coloured and cut out and applied with silicon glue.
The word 'Joy' is grungeboard painted with crackle paint. Then a line of beads were added.
No 9
Background- coloured with distress inks, music script stamped in archival black. Small tree stamp coloured with water coloured pencils. Along the right edge there is Angelina fibres. The words were stampes in black archival.
No 10
Background- Alcohol inks stream, denim, pearl and silver were used to create this background. The image was stamped with archival black onto a seperate background using the same colours but lightened with blending solution. The word 'Noel' is chipboard sprayed with mica mists and embossed when dry.
No 11
Background- the word 'wish' is from Tim Holtz alphabet masks which was applied to a white tag then distressed inks over before removing stamp script in distress ink (blue jeans) carefully wipe the distress ink from the masks, then remove them.
The child image was stamped onto photo film strip (which had been stripped of the brown coating with bleach) a small amount of glossy acsents was used to adhere it to the tag and then eyelets top and bottom, then I added a star.
The 12th Tag
Background-bottom half embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folder (swirls) and distress inks, then stamped with music script (black archival) and border (pearl dabber). The bird is grungboard painted with picket fence crackle paint, the heart cut from scrap od grungeboard and painted with crackle paint,
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