Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags

The last day, and losts of new techniques learnt, and hopefully a few new friends made.
I didn't have anything for this one, so first of all cut out the bauble from grungepaper, as my hands can't cope with grungboard. I did have the distress inks and crackle paint. I then used the only Christmas backing paper that I had, and it's very dull, so put a few extra things on. I used one of Tims paper stack Decembers, and reduced it in size. I took the foliage and cones from a Christmas decoration. I have put the wrong coloured green ribbon on the bauble, but it's stuck, so it stays.

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 11

Nearly there, the penultimate tag. I did have the pine tree die today, but that was all. The rest I had to improvise, but hey, that's all the more fun. Just think of all the h...........k I would have felt compelled to do if the tags had only taken me a short time, if I had had all the right bits. Not very chuffed with this one

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 10

Although I only had the snowflake embossing folder (confession, it only came yesterday, I must have had a premonition) todays tag wasn't too complicated. I cut out the snowman by hand on card, having enlarged an image of it from the embossing folder. Put it all together, embossed the top acrylic layer, and fastened it with snowflake brads. I gave the snowman some snow to sit in, as he seemed to be floating.

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 9

Once again I had none of the required bits, so mine isn't like Tim's. First of all I photocopied some carol music, stuck it to my tag and inked it up ith my prefered colours. I cut out some letters with one of my alphabet dies and stuck them on, and put glossy accents on as instructed. I used a flower that had been kicking around my workroom for ages and put a heart in the middle, didn't like the crown as well. I used some old buttons to decorate the side. hung some bits at the top, and that was it finished. That's the quickest one so far. Didn't start it until 8 pm-ish.

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 8

Oh, didn't like this one at all. I had to draw and make my own mask, and in paper is was very difficult to ink it up properly. The whole thing ended up with a halo round it. Good technique, but only with the right stuff. I used a Crafty Individuals flourish stamp, and cut out some houses on card. Inked them up, and painted some puff paint on the top for snow. I didn't like the clock or photo corners so left them out, and put on a wooden Christmas tree instead. Not my favourite tag.

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 7

All I had today were the alphabets for the Joyful bit at the bottom. I used a cuttlebug embossing folder for the background, but had to use it twice as my tag is too big. The join is hidden under the flower. I glued some canvas to the grungepaper with great difficulty, the only glue that worked was UHU. The flower I cut out with a sizzix flower die, which seemed to work. I didn't have the rock candy stickles, so used diamond instead. Not as good as it has gold in it. I had a grungeboard flourish,which I painted silver. I used a coin with a ring on the top, and used 3D glaze over the top.
It has taken me ages with frequent interuptions from the men folk who were trying to defrost the pipes in the roof, and that's with leaving the heating on all night.

Tim Holtz 12 days of Christmas tags Day 6

I just knew that flipping reindeer would appear before too long. Not a good start, I didn't have anything, so had to be devious. I used the fir tree die ( only bought it last week) for the trees on the left, and one of my flourish collection to stamp the background Used a ribbon at the bottom, and made a greetings thingy. Now comes the devious bit. I scanned in the reindeer from the picture on the sale packet and enlarged it. Cut it out of grungepaper and embossed with a circle embossing folder, only because I couldn't find my scroll one. I found it after I had finished. I had to mix a blue paint for the deer, and am not very pleased with the result. The embossing folder wasn't as deep as Tim's so it is not as effective.. I don't have any metal word things either so hung some bells on instead.