O Christmas Tree -- Red & Green Challenge

This week's challenge is to make a red & green tag. It seems I only think Christmas when I think red & green, so I made another Christmas tree tag:


The image is from Tin Can Mail (Inkadinkado), stamped in moss green ink (Club Scrap). I used a red marker to color in the holly berry, and then got carried away and filled in the notes at the bottom, too. I dotted glue randomly on the tree, then shook on some Judikins Prisma Glitter. It's a pity the picture doesn't pick up the glitter; it's quite pretty. Finished with a satin bow.

Dream

Here's this week's challenge tag at Tag You're It. The challenge was to use the word "dream" on the tag. Here's mine:



Pretty simple. Stamped the image on an actual manila tag with Versafine Vintage Sepia; image is lightly colored with chalk. Because the image is square, I wanted to soften the edges, so I masked the ends of the tag with post-it notes torn into an arch. Gilded the edges slightly with a gold leaf pen. The stamp is made by Magenta.

Sew . . . on a Tag

This week's "Tag You're It" challenge was to use sewing on a tag. I abhor sewing on cardstock, so my tag actually features faux stitching! I used a push pin and a ruler to make holes around the edge of the cardstock, and then connected the holes with a gel pen. This makes believeable stitching, especially in real life. My photography makes it look like a solid line in spots:



The image (Inkadinkado) is stamped on the green background, and again on the printed paper. The dress on the printed paper is cut out and glued over the top of the image stamped on the green. I cut out the corners freehand -- I'm awaiting delivery of a Stampin'Up punch like this. Anyway, I like the effect, even if the cutting is less than perfect.

Christmas Tag

I made this tag for the challenge on the "Tag, You're It" blog. I found this blog on a mention from another blogger.

This week's challenge was to make a tag for Christmas. I used one of my favorite angel stamps to make this tag:



The stamp is from Stampington. I watercolored her with Adirondack ink, and a touch of Twinkling H20s. All the papers are Club Scrap. I ran the cream piece through a Cuttlebug embossing folder, and then sprayed it with gold Radiant Rain. You can't really see the glitz on the photo.

In my first iteration, I used a Distress ink pad in Antique Linen on the embossed piece. In real life, there is a little too much contrast, and the background fights with the angel in the foreground. This angel has more Twinking H2O paint, her wings are an attempt at a copper patina:



This was a fun challenge. You can find the challenge site at http://weekendtaggers.blogspot.com/