Tag Tuesday -- Christmas Leftovers

Don't know if anybody else has been eating Christmas leftovers as I have the last few days.  Thank goodness they are almost gone. 
But I also find I have a lot of craftable (don't think that's actually a word) leftovers as well.   For instance, the paper liners from the Fannie May candy box.  I used them to make my flower on this week's tag.

So your challenge this week is to use some leftover Christmas tidbit -- maybe a tag from a gift you received, a scrap of pretty Christmas wrapping paper, some packaging that looks interesting.
It doesn't need to be a Christmas tag -- just use some Christmas leftover on it.

And if you've cleaned up your house so well already that none of this is laying about, then I guess you are out of luck for this week's challenge.

Have fun making tags this week!

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Christmas Past

Along with my heartfelt Christmas wishes to all my blogging friends, a few of my past Christmas creations!



Tag Tuesday -- Colors of Christmas

Creating for Christmas, for me, often includes either silver or gold.  And I usually tend to go for the gold.   So I challenged myself this week to use silver.  I silver embossed my three images and then placed them on some background text I recently received which has the Christmas story on it.

So this week the challenge is to use either Silver or Gold on your tag.

This will be our last challenge before Christmas.  I will be back next week with other one.  But until then I want to wish all of our taggers a very blessed and special Christmas!

(Just a quick note:  I make it a point to come and see every single tag that's posted.....sometimes it just takes me a couple days.  I know this week will be especially busy:)

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Snowflake Ornaments

I first admired these snowflake ornaments over at Robin's Nest.  Then when I passed some of the snowflakes yesterday in Walgreen's I picked up a pack to experiment with.

I found I had to use a glue gun to adhere my round artwork to the snowflakes because of all the glitter.  I also found since the snowflakes are so sparkly I preferred it without the glitter around the circle.

But I think they are so pretty.....and I am off to make some more!

Tag Tuesday Challenge -- The Colors of Christmas

Welcome back to Tag Tuesday -- where I promised an easy, stress-free challenge (you won't need any specific inks, stamps, sparkly snow stuff, die cuts or anything like that).   Lynn S asked for no weird colors, so I'm really hoping I won't disappoint there either:)   But you can take all week to create your tag and link back here.

With that intro the colors for this week are:  Green, Yellow & Brown.

Here's my very uncomplicated tag. 

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Published!

I had some work published in the latest edition of the Stampers Sampler which I wanted to share.  It was for the Different Point of View feature.  These two pages show how I used the same sentiment stamp in different ways.

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Congrats to other Tuesday Taggers whose work I spied in there:  Lynn Stevens, Tracy Evans, Lolita Dally and Penny Bennington.

See you tomorrow for Tag Tuesday!

Day 12 of Tim's Tags {And I'm Exhausted}

I don't know how Tim manages to create all these tags 12 days in a row, but it has exhausted me!  As Day 12 rolled around {thankfully} I had to get this tag off early this morning if it was going to happen at all.  The wind is howling outside, a snowstorm is expected, and I'm supposed to be making a long drive out to my sister's house.

So I made my tag.  I'll give you glimpses of it as it really was not fit to print, shall we say.  IRL it looks okay, but it just would not photograph well at all.  And probably the only thing resembling Tim's tag for today was the background paper I used.   There's another reason I'm glad this tag thing is over -- I'm getting frustrated cutting into my Seasonal Paper Pad!!


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Well, the good news is that Tag Tuesday will return this week -- that almost sounds like a joke at this point.  But we still have a few more weeks before Christmas to finish up our colors of Christmas series.  So I hope you'll pop back on Tuesday and join us for a non-stressful, take your time, easy kind of tag!

Tim's Tags Day 11 -- and I'm Off!!

I started out today EARLY because I've got a million things to do this Saturday two weeks before Christmas.  Woke up and was THRILLED to see Tim's tag was not too difficult to replicate.

I had the exact dictionary page he used -- and that was about it.   I used some snowflakes as a mask for my background and Flower Soft for the snow.

I like today's tag.  I can tell you yesterday's tag is never going to happen:):)

And with that I am off to do the million things I've scheduled for today!

No Tags, No Flowers -- Just Spoons

I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels overwhelmed trying to keep up with Tim and his tags!  Whew!  So I'm just going to go at my own pace and make them as time allows and I feel inspired to.  Working has kept me very busy this week so that has come into play, too.  

Today I thought I'd share some altered spoons I made a few weeks ago.  It's my first attempt at them.  On Black Friday I scored a fabulous deal on a new set of silverware, so I made use of some of the spoons from the old set.

Tim's Tags Day 9 -- More Flowers!

Day 9 finds me faced with another flower I didn't have the die to make -- only this one was a lot easier to create and turned out much more successfully.   I just cut the paper on my own as Tim showed in his video and -- voila -- this time it turned out proportionately!.

Time and inspiration kept me from yesterday's tag, so I was glad to see this one this morning was on the easy side.  It forced me to cut into my Seasonal Paper pad (which I'm not fond of doing) for the background and flower, but seeing as this is one of my favorite tags I guess it was worth it.

Best tip from Tim today:  Tim's video on how to make a rosette was very helpful and can be created without his die, too.

Tim's Tags Day 7 -- That Darn Flower

For me it all started with the flower.  Yes, I had the sticky back canvas and the grungeboard, but I didn't have the flower die.  So I figured I could just eyeball it and cut out the pieces myself.  (Oh, I didn't have that mist either to spray the sticky back canvas, but I made do with some reinkers and water in a mini mister).

Well, cutting out the flowers myself gave me an ENORMOUS flower.   I liked the flower a lot, especially when I stamped the text on it, but it was ENORMOUS.  So my tag, therefore, had to be ENORMOUS.

I cut a piece of cardboard heavy enough to hold my ENORMOUS flower.

From there I just went out on my own, adding the calendar, the fragment with 25 behind it and the clip at top.  I already had some canvas letters, so I simply scraped the edges with my finger to distress them (turns out you don't really need that fancy tool to do this:)

And there you have it.  I like it a lot. 

Oh, and in case you are wondering -- I happened to be up at 4:30 this morning and this darn flower took me an hour and a half to make.  Had to kind of hurry with the rest of it so I could get off to work!
Did I mention I really like that darn flower?

Tim's 12 Tags -- Day 6

No tag on Day 5 from me -- it was just too busy of a day.  When I had a little time in the evening I was too tired to really get inspired.  So I'm letting Day 5 go and moving on to Day 6.

Which was a little interesting given that the main focus of Tim's tag was a very large reindeer and I only had one rather small reindeer stamp to try and substitute.   So I made up for his size by giving him a shiny red nose!

I liked the idea of creating a woodland scene though and added a rusty metal moon to mine.

His tissue paper ribbon at the bottom was a great touch and I carried the music theme to the top of mine by stamping on my ribbon.  Along with a little jingle bell I added.

Feeling much better now knowing I didn't miss another day.........



Tim's 12 Tags -- Day 4

Today's tag was another fun one -- and easy.  Which is good because our first snow is falling today and there's snow to be shovelled!

It did require me to cut in my Tim Holtz Seasonal Paper Pad (for the Santa paper background)  which I was very reluctant to do.   I guess I'll have to buy another pad just to look at.

I deviated a little from his tag, but now awfully much although  I did bring a bit of red into my tag.  The only ticket I had said "trust" so I kind of stamped "wish" on a piece of brown cardstock and stuck that over part of the ticket.

The coolest trick of today's tag was how Tim showed how to create this snowflake patterned blue facets.  You can see how he did it here.

Tim's 12 Tags -- Day 3

I'm loving these tags of Tim's!!   They are incredibly designed -- and leave so much room for you to add your own touches or change things up as you need to.

It was only as I tried to reproduce his background that I saw how many layers and how much detail he adds to things.  
I had his bird die and I also had vintage greeting he used from his seasonal paper pad.  (Can I just take a minute to say that his seasonal paper pad is the most fabulous set of papers I have ever seen.   Out and out my all time favorites!  I will have to have one I'll use and one I'll just keep to look at:)

I also chose to create a pinwheel flower for my tag as I had just been making some of these the last few days and had it handy.

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Like that telephone in the background on the first picture?  As I was walking this morning around the neighborhood (I like to go early when it's still dark out) I spied it in my neighbor's trash. (ETA:  I didn't actually go rummaging here, I just spied it sitting on top of the newspapers in the recycle bin.)  I scooped it up, brought it home, cleaned it up a bit -- and now I have a super cool retro phone for my office.

Tag Tuesday -- Christmas RAK Winners

Friday morning -- time to announce the winner for my Christmas crafting RAK.   I had already decided in my mind that I would pick the numbers of this season -- 12/25.  

So having said that,  the winners are:

#12 -- Sharon

#25 -- Elwa.

Ladies, please e-mail me with your info and I will mail these out to you.   You can find my e-mail

by clicking on my picture on my blog.

Congratulations!

Tim's Tags Day 2..

..and not only is it a much easier tag to create (only took me 1/2 an hour today as opposed to three yesterday), but I was doing it at 5:00 a.m. instead of 3:00 a.m.

You can see Tim's original tag here.   I followed it pretty much as he showed.  I didn't have the Happy Holidays stamp, but I thought my Merry Christmas stamp looked very Tim-esque.  I also didn't have a bird charm, so I silver embossed one from a stamp I had.

The best tip of today's tag:  Tim showed how to make your own stamp pad of sorts  from Cut and Dry Foam.  Since I just bought a whole new package of this I was able to give it a try.   He has shown this in the past, but I have to admit this is the first time I really understood what he was saying.  I can't explain it....

you'll have to check out his post today to see for yourself.  Anyway, I didn't have the exact shades of reinkers I needed so my pincone came out a little less vibrant than I would have liked

All in all though I think he created a lovely tag and I'm pleased with mine as well.



My Three Hour Tag

Wow, Tim's 12 Tags of Christmas really started up with a bang!  I can so appreciate those of you who commented yesterday that they didn't think they'd have much time to play along with his Christmas tag fun.  I wouldn't have even attempted this one -- except I woke up at three in the morning.  So by the time six o'clock rolled around, I was just waiting for enough light outside to take a picture.

As you can see, mine is substantially different than Tim's.  Didn't have the house or fence die, so I created those on my own.  With my tree I went in a totally different direction, using corrugated cardboard and then white embossing it for a snow effect.  Speaking of snow, I had none of the stuff he used, so I opted for flower soft.  I added a little garland to my fence, too, which I quite liked.

Actually, I like the way my tag turned out, even though it I had to venture out of the Tim Zone for quite a bit of it. 

Best little gimmick of his from this tag:  Love using the bit of cotton from a cotton swab for the chimney smoke!