Twelve Tags of Christmas --- Wrap-up!

I'm excited to announce the winner, top tags, and honourable mentions

for the Twelve Tags of Christmas 2018.

105 amazing entries this year - WOW!

  THANK YOU for sharing your beautiful works-of-art!

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Winning Tag

(Prize:  $50 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp)

Bonnie (Stamping with Klass)

It's all starts with the fabulous colour combination of red, white and kraft.  The richly coloured red sleigh looks fun and festive with the brightly coloured packages all tied up with ribbon.  The metal blades of the sleigh are settled into a snow drift with lots of snow falling all around.
A beautiful, creative, winter scene, that makes you feel the excitement and chill in the air!
Congratulations Bonnie!!

Make sure to grab your Winner's badge.

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Top Tags

(Prize:  $25 gift certificate each from Simon Says Stamp)

Nancy (Splitcoaststampers Gallery)

T. (The Altered Paper)

Pat (Colourful Card Creations)

Congratulations Nancy, T., and Pat!!

These three top tags are as diverse as they are beautiful.
Starting with Nancy's muted colours of her snowy winter forest scene, this tag leaves you with a peaceful, tranquil feeling.
T.'s gorgeous ink layered background sparkles, while her beautiful, ornate ornament adds another big punch of colour with lots of dimension and texture.
Pat's tag starts with a textured holly background, which is highlighted with silver and blue.  The tranquil winter scene is so pretty with the mix of soft, delicate colours and finished beautifully with a silver frame.

Congrats to Nancy, T., and Pat!

Make sure to grab your Top Tags Badge.

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Honourable Mentions

An InLinkz Link-up

Congratulations to Bunny, Colleen, Hideko, Julia, Sue B., Nancy,
Shaz, Christine, Marcia, Linda, Robyn, and Sue J.
Make sure to grab your Honourable Mention Badge.

Random Winner

(picked by random number generator)

Result:55

#55 Robyn

(Prize:  $25 gift certificate Simon Says Stamp)

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Prizes will be sent out shortly to the Winner, Top Tags, and Random Winner.
Thanks to everyone that played along or left messages of support.

I hope you enjoyed the fifth and final addition of the 

Twelve Tags of Christmas!

Oh Christmas Tree!

Hi everyone.  First time inking up this fabulous stamps from Penny Black. 

Placed tree stamp in my misti, along with a piece of Mixed Media paper.  Used markers to ink up the stamp, spritzed with a little water and then stamped.  Added too much water, so blotted the image lightly with a paper towel.  Dried it with my heat tool and repeated the inking and spritzing a few more times until I was happy with the colours.

Splattered the background with diluted brown and blue-green inks (same colours used on the tree) and stamped my sentiment in brown.  I like the muted colours of this card.

I decided to use the same stamp, this time with brighter colours.  I used the technique of adding versamark to the image, adding Brushos to the inked stamp, spritzing with just a little water and stamped.  The image turned out really well.  I still had lots of colour left on the stamp so repeated with spritzing a little water and stamping.  I ended up with three prints from the one inking with Brushos.  Below is the second print.  The first one was darker, the third one was lighter.  Three cards in just a few minutes! :)  Gotta love that!  I added some red glitter glue for the tree lights.

Stamps:  Christmas Glow (Penny Black); Christmas Sentiments (Penny Black)
Paper:  Mixed Media Paper (Strathmore 140 lb. 400 Series)
Ink:  Distress Inks:  Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint, Pine Needles, Mustard Seed (Tim Holtz)
Accessories & Tools:  Water mister, paint brush for splattering

November Rudolph Days

Hi everyone.  Today I'm playing along with Rudolph Days.  This is the last challenge of the year.  Thanks to Maureen for running this fun challenge.  I managed to play along each month this year!!

Today's card was an experiment that turned out pretty well.  The background sky was a piece I had in my stash.  Did it ages ago using coated card stock (a gift from my sweet friend, Christine) smooshed with distress inks and Inka Gold (blue sapphire).  Art mediums react differently on the coated card, so it's always interesting to see what happens.  This one is turned out really well and I used the piece to create two cards with this design.

I die-cut the lime green foil using the Evergreen Window Die from Memory Box.  As you can tell by the name, this normally creates a window, but I wanted to try to use it differently.  I die-cut the foil and then fussy cut around the edge to create a thin frame.  Then I layered it with the backing and popped it up foam and then on to the card base.  The stamped sentiment finishes the card.

I used the cast-offs from the die-cut foil piece above, inlaying them into white card stock cut with the same die.  Might be weird to have white trees and a green sky, but I think it looks pretty!  Always great to be able to get an extra card using leftover bits and pieces.

I hope you'll check out the Rudolph Days November Challenge and join us!

Stamps:  Christmas (Gina Marie Designs)
Paper:  White (Neenah 110 lb.); Coated Card stock
Ink:  Distress Inks for smooshing; Salty Ocean for sentiment
Accessories & Tools:  Evergreen Window die (Memory Box),  Lime Green Foil (Thermoweb)

Challenges:
Rudolph Days November Challenge

Penny Black - Evergreen Tree

Hi everyone.  Today I'm sharing a clean and simple card featuring Penny Black's Evergreen Tree die.

I started with a small panel of mixed media paper, smooshing with Broken China distress ink and lots of water.  Once dry, I layered two pieces of torn which paper for the snow hills (sponged on the edge with more Broken China ink).  The snow hills were die-cut with the scalloped square die from "do not open..." die set.  The smooshed background was also die-cut with the scalloped square and the snow hills were adhered on top, lining up the edges.

Another small panel of mixed media paper was smooshed with two shades of green Brushos.  Once dry, the largest tree in the set was die-cut.  The top layer of the snow tree was die-cut from white card stock four times, adhered together and glued to the backing with the green Brushos.  Crystal Glaze was added to the recessed areas (green) and left to dry.  This give the tree a stained glass look.

More Crystal Glaze was added to the top of the snow hills and all over the snowy part of the tree, then both all were sprinkled with diamond dust.

Once dry, the scalloped square was popped up on foam onto the card base.  The tree was popped up on top of the scalloped square for more dimension.  A sentiment was stamped underneath the square using Broken Glass.

Here's a close-up ...

and here's an even closer look at the shine and sparkle ...

If you get a chance, pop over to the Simplicity at it's best blog to see some new designs from my Simplicity Sisters.

I'm entering this card into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Baby It's Cold Outside.


Penny Black Products:
#51-384 Evergreen Tree Die
#51-402 do not open... Die
#30-387 Festive Snippets

Stamps:  Festive Snippets (Penny Black)
Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 140 lb. 400 Series); White card base (Neenah 110 lb.)
Ink:  Distress Ink:  Broken China (Tim Holtz); Brushos (Lime Green, Leaf Green)
Accessories & Tools:  water mister, Evergreen Tree die (Penny Black), do not open die (Penny Black), Diamond Dust, Crystal Glaze (Nuvo)

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Baby It's Cold Outside