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Day 9

One of my favourite tags.  The rosette and the lettering cut on the silhouette. The rosette was inked and stamped before folding. The buttons and the baubles are from my stash. (Gotta love cheap jewellery that you would much rather take apart than wear)

Day 10

Once again I was faced with the challenge of not having the Tim Holtz die for the snowman.  Yes – you guessed it – back to the silhouette!  I embossed some acetate in the cuttlebug and secured it with brads from my stash. (Hmm – must fix that hand up)

Moving Right Along

Day 7

My Word! Was this a challenge or what? A woodgrain embossing folder – do I have one of those? Nah-Uh!

The silhouette came to the rescue yet again! (how did I live without one of these amazing machines?)  I used a purchased woodgrain background file and sized it to fit the tag.  I then attacked said tag with the embossing stylus once again.  Inking on the raised side showed up the pattern and I was pretty stocked with myself.

The flourish, the poinsettia and the wording were all cut on the silhouette – of course, lol.  I didn’t have a type charm (but I do now, haha) so I used and epoxy sticker from my stash.

Day 8

OK – not so thrilled with this one but had fun creating the houses on the silhouette as well as the Santa/Sleigh that I cut from acetate to use as a stencil/mask.  The clock face is a digital graphic and I added a Ideology spinner.  The key is silver-inked chipboard.

Now . . . Where was I ?

Oh, yes – Christmas Tags days 5 and 6

Day 5

 

I printed the Santa on the tag, used peel-craft type stickers for the holly leaves (I went over gold with a black permanent marker) and used the Silhouette to cut the label shape and the numbers.

I managed to make the numbers look like enamelled metal by using an embossing stylus on the reverse, painting them with white and topping off with clear dimensional.

I added the clear dimensional to a paper flower which soaked right in and gave it an almost glass-like look.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with this one.

Day 6

I used the silhouette to sketch and cut the Season Greetings tag and coloured it with metallic gel pens, edging it with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I also cut several “layers” of trees that I glued together in order to do the embossing on the left hand side (not that you can really see it.

The swirls were stamped in gold and the “splatters” in bronze paint.  The reindeer is a clear sticker on brown cardstock.  The wreath was made with white flowersoft that I coloured with re-inker and  topped with clear dimensional.

I don’t have Tim’s tissue tape so I made my own by stamping on white tissue paper and backing it with double sided tape.  Works for me! LOL

12 Tags of Christmas – Next instalment

Day 3:

Okay – I panicked slightly at this one.  No tree/branch stamp!  No Tim Holtz Bird die, no tissue tape and no Tim paper to cut the “postcard” from.  Ahh! But I did have a memo pin, lol.

To make matter worse, Tim put tinsel on his tag!! What the . . .?  I loathe tinsel!

I used a Silhouette file for the bird, a plant stamp for the branches, a Penny Duncan cutting file for the flower and a graphic from Land of Enchantment for the postcard.  I found some ruffled ribbon in my stash that had some lurex in it but I still had to force myself to use it.

Day 4:

This has to be my favourite so far!!  I used a Christmas stamp that I am pretty sure I got from Rubbadubbadoo (is that how you spell it? – can’t find the business card under all my creative mess)

I didn’t have any of Tim’s facets so I used a microscope slide instead.  I couldn’t get the snowflakes to lift off so I just cheated and stamped the over the now blue glass, with silver ink.

The bling is a a Prima corner that I cut to suit and the self-adhesive pearls are from my stash.  The pearl charms are re-invented earrings but I actually has an adage ticket and mini-paper clip from Tim’s range that I could use.  Yay me! LOL

12 Tags of Christmas – Day 1 and 2

I love following Tim Holtz as he produces twelve tags each December.  I made them for the first time last year and just love all the techniques he so willingly shares.

I will post them up 2 days at a time.

Day 1:

I don’t have Tim’s dies so I altered a cutting file from Silhouette (Haunted House) and scored the weatherboards rather than using strips of grunge paper.  The fence was a free download file I have had for a couple of years – no idea now where I got it from.

The wreath is one of those cheap Xmas earrings and the tag I printed and cut on the Silhouette as well.

Day 2:

I don’t have anything remotely close to the pinecone stamp that Tim used but I did find this bird on a branch so figured that would have to do.  The pearl charms and the silver “wings” are made from junk jewellery.  The sentiment was printed from an installed font on my computer.

My first ever Blog Award

How cool is that!  I received one each from Sherryn and Lynne.  Thanks girls!  Gave me a real buzz.

The rules of the award are that you list 5 things about yourself that others may not know and to pass the award on to 5 others.

So …….

1.  I hate housework

2. I used to be a gym junkie

3. I used to scuba dive

4. I have always wanted a convertible

5. The 2nd and 3rd toes on each foot are webbed to the 1st  knuckle (weird, huh?)

I would like to pass this award on to :

Cyndi, Brenda, Elaine, Denise and Trina

Birthday Boy

Hell’s teeth!  Liam is 12.  How did that happen?

This year Liam insisted on a Wiggles Big Red Car cake.  I did try to get out of it by saying “I don’t think I know how to make one of those Hun” but quick as flash he came back with “That’s OK!  I’ll get the instructions off the internet.”  Damn – he did just that.

So, he helped me bake the chocolate cakes to make it with (not to mention the other 2 batches of mix that were made into 40+  muffins for taking to school so that he could “share my birthday with all my friends”) and I put the finishing touches on at 11.55pm the night before his actual birthday.

 

A long way from perfect but Liam was very happy.