25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018 - Days 24, 25, & 26

Hello friends.  Today I am happy to say that I have played along with all 26 days of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags challenge that the wonderful Tracey McNealy has put together.  Don't have a clue what I'm going to do with myself tomorrow now that this challenge is done, but here are days 24, 25, & 26!

Day 24 was sponsored by Sunny Studios and I was inspired by Mendi Yoshikawa's cute, CUTE llama tags with the DSP at the top and bottom.  I don't have the Sunny Studio llama but used my Lawn Fawn Winter Alpaca stamp instead.

I picked out 3 different DSP's from Penny Black and then colored in the scarfs and packages with coordinating Copic colors and adhered all to MFT tags.

Day 25 was sponsored by Hello Bluebird stamps and I was inspired by Tracey's adorable polar bear and snowy background.

I guess I've been living under a rock because I was not familiar at all with the Hello Bluebird stamp company but SSS helped me out and I have some new stamps coming my way...gosh are they all adorable!!  For these tags I used MFT's Polar Bear Pals and colored their scarves with Copics, and then mounted them to tags that I clear embossed some snowflakes from SSS's Frozen Fractals stamp set and then blended some Gina K Powdered Blue ink over.  The sentiment was computer generated as I needed something smaller to fit on these small tags.

Day 26 is a bonus day and is sponsored by A Jillian Vance Design company, and I was inspired by Lindsey M-p's sweet little jingle bell tags!

I don't have any Christmas Jillian Vance stamps, but I substituted a Lil' Inker jingle bell die that I cut from silver glittered cardstock, and attached to a tag (MFT) that I stamped with SU!'s Sheet Music background stamp with Real Red and Merry Merlot inks.  Very simple but FUN and FESTIVE!!

A BIG shout out to Tracey and her FABULOUS team (Kim Heggins, Joyce Mehrberg, Carol Mayne, & Lindsey M-p), and also ALL the sponsors for the past 26 days of FUN, FUN, FUN!!  I have truly enjoyed every day of these challenges and thank all of you for all the hard work and time and effort you put into this!

This challenge is still open till Dec. 3, so check out all the FABULOUS inspiration and play along...so many prizes up for grabs!  All the info to play along can be found HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018 - Days 20, 21, 22, & 23

Hello friends.  Hope all of my American friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday!!  We were blessed to have all 3 of our girls home (and their families!) and my 86 year old mother...was a wonderful day!!

I'm still playing along with Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags challenge, and have tags from days 20, 21, 22, & 23 to share with you.

Day 20 was sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays and I was inspired by Nora Noll's lovely water colored tags.

I used a CAS-ual Fridays tag die to cut out my tags and then smooshed them with Distress Inks before adding the Mistletoe from Stamplorations Christmas Medley set.

Day 21 was sponsored by Lawn Fawn and I was inspired by Lynette Lundquist's adorable red & turquoise tags!

I used Lawn Fawn's RAWR and Winter Alpaca stamp sets to create these fun little tags.

Day 22 was sponsored by Waffle Flower and I was inspired by Tracey's cute, CUTE and whimsical tag all done in red & white!

LOVED Tracey's layout and design and used a combination of sets for the small tree, candy canes, and stars that were embossed in white.  Loved the little white buttons Tracey added to resemble Santa and his red suit!!

Day 23 is being sponsored by Lil' Inker and I absolutely LOVED Lindsey M-p's beautiful shaker tag with the jingle bell in place of the "o" in the JOY!

My joy and jingle bell die cuts are both from Lil' Inker and the tree's are stamped from SU!'s Winter Woods set.

The link for this challenge will be open till Dec. 3, so play along for a chance to win lots of great prizes!  You can check out all the inspiration right HERE. 

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Days 16, 17, 18, & 19

Hello friends.  Still playing along with Tracey's 25 Days Of Christmas Tags challenge and I have 4 days worth to share, so hunker down!

Day 16 was sponsored by Ellen Hutson and I was inspired by Tracey's and Emily Midgett's sweet tags!

I loved the light green background in both of Tracey and Emily's tags and my sweet snowman is one of the first stamps I ever bought back in 1999 from a company called Stamp City.

Day 17 was sponsored by Avery Elle and I LOVED Jamie Gracz's adorable tag using the Polar Peek A Boo Pals stamp set!

I so wanted to copy Jamie's tag with the 3 star cutouts but after checking her blog I see that she used a GIANT tag (4 x 5 1/4) to fit all three star cutouts and I don't have that big a tag...hence only 2 of the critters peeking out on my tag!  I love the reindeer with the lights all tangled up in his antlers too, so I had to ink him up too!

Day 18 was sponsored by Neat & Tangled and absolutely LOVED Elena Roussakis adorable red, black, & white snowman tags!

Elena's tags reminded me of chalkboard tags, so I used Avery Elle's Winter Woodland Wonders stamp set and colored up the snowman and birdie for my tags.

Day 19 was sponsored by Jillibean stamps and I was inspired by both Tracey and Joyce Mehrberg's beautiful purple backgrounds and penguins.

I made a purple plaid background using Concord & 9th's Plaid Background stamp and then die cut a couple penguins from SSS's Penguins...love how these turned out and my granddaughter's favorite color is purple, so guess whose gifts these tags are going to be attached to?!!

Over a week left to play along, and LOTS of inspiration to get you started!  Check it out right HERE and then play along!  

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

25 Days Of Tags 2018 - Days 13, 14, & 15

Hello friends.  Still having FUN being inspired and playing along with the 25 Days Of Christmas Tags challenge!

Day 13 is sponsored by Technique Tuesday, and I was inspired by both Tracey & Kim and their Christmas lights tags.

I don't own any Technique Tuesday stamps but I substituted PTI's Corner Adorner: September stamp set and came up with the brightly colored tags.  I also added a little bit of silver glitter paper like Kim did to bling it up even more!!  The DSP at the top is from Reverse Confetti's new Winter Solstice 6 x 6 pad.

Day 14 is sponsored by Muse Christmas Visions and I was inspired by 2 different tags from Kim Heggins and Kimberly Wiener.

 
These tags were inspired by Kim's BEAUTIFUL water colored tree's...I used SU!'s Winter Woods stamp set and inked up the stamp, spritzed with water, and then stamped on my tags.  Next I went over them with a WOS pen and it made it even more water colored looking plus added the sparkle!!

I was also inspired by Kimberly Wiener's lovely mistletoe tags and used a Stamplorations set called Layered Mistletoe.  I stamped my berries in white ink and then went over the top of them with a bottle of Smooch Pearlized Top Coat that I've had for like forever and it actually still worked...it's quite lovely IRL!!

Day 15 is sponsored by Stamplorations and I was inspired by Joyce Mehrberg's and Tracey McNealy's beautiful tags.

My tag on the left was inspired by Tracey and her lovely blended background.  Tracey had an angel on her tag, but I just really LOVE the Stamplorations Christmas Reindeer set...they are so whimsical and fun to use!  They're embossed in white and I also did some splattering with white acrylic paint.  The tag on the right was inspired by Joyce's tag on kraft using these FUN deer...just stamped them along with the sentiment and snowflakes in Soft Suede ink and then did some splattering on these too!

Make sure you check out all the inspiration and FUN and play along for your chance at some of the wonderful prizes that are up for grabs.  You can find all the info to play along right HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

Twelve Tags of Christmas and 25 Days of Christmas Tags

Hello friends.  Yep...still continuing to make more tags!!  I'm actually combining these two tag events today because Shari Carroll of SSS did a video (HERE) for the 1st day of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags event showing a mixed media (collage) type of tag that I absolutely fell in LOVE with, and I just had to make one...well ok, I made three!  But anyway, I thought these tags would work great for Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas tag event too because they are a mixed media tag.

I CASE'd a good portion of Shari's tag because it was just too pretty not to, but also added a few of my own touches!  Take a look:

I used quite a bit of Tim Holtz products to make my tags including Holly Collage paper, Holiday Flash cards, and the Christmas 8 x 8 pad.  I started by using Ranger's Texture Paste and rubbing it with my fingers (messy!!) over my PTI Basic Bookmark #2 tags and then adding torn bits of the Holly tissue paper and pieces from the Christmas 8 x 8 pad.  Once they dried I started adding my layers.

My greenery sprig is from TH's Holiday Greens dies and I sponged it with some Mossy Meadow ink and then some Delicata Golden Glitz ink.  I also did some gold embossing to the edges of the PTI Fancy Flakes snowflake, but it didn't show up real well so I added some of the Delicata Golden Glitz ink to the snowflake as well.  I sponged Tea Dye ink around the edges of the Noel flashcard and then stamped a few small snowflakes over that too.

One of the papers in the 8 x 8 pad is clear acetate that has white snowflakes on it and I die cut a 2nd tag to lay over the base tag and I love the look it gives with all the extra snowflakes on the tag!  Wish I could take credit for that idea, but that is Shari's idea too!  Make sure you check out her video on how to do a tag like this...she has all kinds of helpful tips and the link is right HERE.  A few red sequins, a button, and some very fine gold thread finished off my tags.

If you like making tags, be sure to check out both events (HERE and HERE) to play along...so much wonderful inspiration from both!!

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Days, 10, 11, & 12

Hello friends.  Here are tags from Days, 10, 11, & 12 of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags.

Day 10 was sponsored by Studio Katia and I was inspired by ALL of Tracey's DT and their sweet, sweet little snowy village tags!!

I do not own any Studio Katia stamps, but I did have Lawn Fawn's Winter Village that worked beautifully for this challenge.  I used PTI's Tag Sale #8 to die cut my tags and Copic markers to color all the little houses.

Day 11 is sponsored by Winnie & Walter and I was totally inspired by Shay and Joyce Mehrberg's lovely kraft tags with the all over floral design.

I have several Winnie & Walter stamp sets but nothing with tiny Christmas florals, so I substituted a couple Catherine Pooler Christmas sets (Festive Trimmings & Tis The Season) to come up with these.  The joy die cuts are from PTI's Wet Paint Holiday Collection.  I also added Pale Gold Nuvo Drops to the centers of the Poinsettias.

Day 12 is sponsored by Pretty pink Posh and I was inspired by Nicky Meek's adorable pastel tags.

I adored all the sweet little critters on Nicky's tags, but the only Christmas Pretty Pink Posh set I have is the Happy Snowman set, and I think he looks just as cute on these pastel tags!  I embossed with white an older snowflake background stamp on my Gina Marie Designs square scalloped tags and then fussy cut out my little snowmen with their matching scarves.  Simple but they'll look great on the grandbabies Christmas gifts!

Still lots more inspiration to come, so check it all out and play along (HERE) for the chance to win one of the MANY prizes being offered!

 

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!

25 Days Of Tags 2018 - Days 7, 8, & 9

Hello friends.  Still playing along with the 25 Days Of Christmas Tags and today I'm sharing tags from days 7, 8, & 9.

Day 7 is sponsored by Birch Press Design and I was inspired by Desiree Kuemmerle and her gorgeous gold and cream colored die cut ornaments.

I used a Gina Marie Designs die to make my tags and after finishing these 2, I made a bunch more and left the "joy" die cut off...it hides all the detail of these elegant dies, plus they're very small and the joy kind of takes it over.  But anyway, without the joy they're very delicate and pretty looking!!

Day 8 is sponsored by UNIKO and I was inspired by 2 different tags from Tracey McNealy and Carol Mayne.

I loved Tracey's simple pine branch, acorn, and sentiment in red, so I used an older SU! set called Ornamental Pine and a sentiment from PTI's O'Tannenbaum to come up with these simple little tags.

I was also inspired by Carol Mayne's sweet little Poinsettia tags in red & green.  I used the same MFT tag die and then stamped the Poinsettia's from Catherine Pooler's Cozy Borders stamp set.  Couldn't seem to capture the glitter from the Rockin' Red WOW embossing glitter that I added after stamping, but IRL they really sparkle!  The little Merry Christmas sentiment is from a SSS set that I stamped in green.  Again, simple but really liked the design!!

Day 9 is sponsored by Pink & Main and once again I was inspired by Carol Mayne and her adorable critters tag!

My critters came from 2 different MFT sets...Cool Day and Polar Pals.  I colored them with Copics and then added them to a MFT tag.  The DSP at the top is from PB's Festive & Frosty 6 x 6 pad.

Still lots more inspiration to come, so check it all out HERE and then play along...there's some great prizes up for grabs!!

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25 Days Of Tags - Days 4, 5, & 6

Hello friends.  Still playing along with Tracey McNealy's 25 Days Of Christmas Tags and today I have tags from Days 4, 5, & 6.

Day 4 is sponsored by Reverse Confetti and I was totally inspired by Tricia Barber and her adorable little Gnomes!

I loved Reverse Confetti's new Stitched Grid Tag die, so I improvised with PTI's Grid stamp and Reverse Confetti's Holiday Gnomes stamp set.  These were so much fun to color up with the red, green, and aqua!!

Day 5 is sponsored by Newton's Nook and I was inspired by Zsofia Molnar's sweet little kitty tags!

I loved Zsofia's red, kraft, & white color theme too, and used an MFT tag die and PTI Bitty Big DSP and a SSS kitty stamp to create my version of Zsofia's tags.

Day 6 is sponsored by Paper Sweeties and I loved both Joyce Mehrberg's and Lindsey M-p's cute little Winter birdhouses!

I used the same MFT tag die as yesterdays tags, and then stamped a Northwoods rubber stamp that I've had forever (yep, on a wooden block!) and colored with my Copics.  The sentiment is from PTI's Rustic Wreath and I also added some tiny red Nuvo Drops for berries on the greenery and Dazzling Diamonds glitter (SU!) on the rooftops of the birdhouses.  The backgrounds were blended with Salty Ocean DOX ink and then splattered with white acrylic paint.

Can you tell I like making Christmas tags?!!  Join in the fun...there's LOTS of prizes to be won!!  Check it all out right HERE.

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25 Days of Tags 2018 - Days 1, 2, & 3

Hello friends.  I love, LOVE making Christmas tags and today I am playing along with Days 1, 2, & 3 of Tracey McNealy's 25 Days of Christmas Tags challenge.

Day 1 was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and I was inspired by 2 different tags and came up with these:

For the tag on the left, I was inspired by Jo Nevil's tag...I LOVED how she used tiny Poinsettia's (PTI's Pleasing Envelopes) on top of die cut snowflakes (SSS's Marisa Snowflake) and the Faire Isle background (Catherine Pooler's Cozy Border's).  For the tag on the right I was inspired Debbie Yates adorable tag with all the red & white with the pop of green for her wreath and used an AliExpress tag die and PTI's Mini Tag Along kit for the wreath.

Day 2 was sponsored by Altenew :

I loved Enza Gudor's lovely, lovely tag using Altenew's Holiday Bow stamp set.  I stamped and fussy cut everything out and attached to a tag I stamped with a hardwood background stamp in light gray ink.  The sentiment is from Altenew's Blessings stamp set.

Day 3 is being sponsored by Concord & 9th:

I absolutely fell in LOVE with Emily Midgett's beautiful black & white tag with the pop of teal!  I used Concord & 9th's Plaid Background stamp set on top of an MFT tag and then added the die cuts using PTI's Bold Borders: Yuletide, Shaped Sayings: Christmas, & Holly Jolly dies with silver cs (Thanks Darnell!!) and silver glittered cs that I colored with a Copic BG49 marker to get the teal color.  A few white Nuvo drops were added for the berries.

I was hoping to catch a bit of the sparkle from the Copic colored silver glitter cs, but no sunshine or decent light to photograph with today...grrrrrr!!

This is such a FUN challenge to play along with and you can check it all out right HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!