Tim's 12 Tags

I so enjoy Tim #12Tags. It is amazing to see what he can come up with each and every day. I have to admit I have been guilty of staying up until midnight to see what the new tag is and then I plot how I will make it in my sleep. Or rather lack of sleep. EEEE!

Today's technique featured crackle paint. I embossed the snowman from grungeboard, cut out by hand, and then applied the tattered rose crackle paint. I think I did a good job as I got some pretty big cracks. I then distressed again with the spun sugar distress ink and spun sugar and festive berries distress ink.

I coated a tag in distress ink picket fence and fired brick and then stamped fired brick snowflakes all over. I then used my finger tool and added some more picket fence to dilute the image. I knew that even though Tim had gone all blue for his tag that I wanted to go all pink and red. I pulled out some red, white, pink glitter snowflake paper to line down the side. I also used this same pattern paper to add to my charm at the top. I tied the charm on with red tulle and red garland ribbon. I then added glossy accents to the charm. I also had a red tag on hand that said Dec 25 which I applied to the bottom of the snowman. Just perfect!

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 12 Home for the Holidays Card

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's card. I am a little sentimental today as this is the last card for 2011. But I think I ended with a good one.

I found this paper on clearance at Scrapbook Island and knew it would be perfect paired up with a digi stamp from La La Land Crafts. The ornament pattern paper was distressed with the festive berries distress ink. I then used my copic markers to color in Marci, as you can see I went with festive colors, including coloring in the panda bear with green colors rather than black and white. I added red and green buttons with red and white twine from the Twinery.

Enjoy and merry christmas. I will be back with more goodies throughout the month!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 11 Warm Wishes Card

Warm Wishes

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's card. We are almost near the end!

Today I am sharing a card I created called "Warm Wishes". This is meant to be my Christmas neutral card for my non-Christmas celebrators. It is a blue cardstock base card to which I added a purple cardstock belly band. Here I added three felt snowflakes of different colors - teal, dark blue and white. I added a gem to the dark blue felt snowflake. Finely I added a "warm wishes" sentiment that I cut from my Cricut, it includes a smiley face on the a.

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 10 Tweet Wishes Card

Tweet Wishes

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's card.

I have a new card to share today called "Tweet Wishes". This card was a lot of fun to make. I paired a bird on wire pattern paper with a blue and dark blue checkered pattern paper. The bird on wire paper include falling snowflakes and a hint of green. The patterned paper also came with matching tags. I combined 3 matching tags with a Wishes token from Tim Holtz, a purple brad and some snowflakes from the Martha Stewart deep edge punch. I stamped in the sentiment Tweet Wishes.

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 9 Gingerbread Family Card

Gingerbread Family

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's card.

Today I am sharing the Gingerbread Family Card. I saw this delightful paper at Scrapbook Island and just had to make some cards from it. On the reverse side of the gingerbread was this cute striped paper in orange and red which I used as my card base.

At the top of the card I added 3 additional layers from the same pattern paper after adhering I added on either side a Mr and Mrs Gingerbread brads. Next up was my Gingerbread family. I used two sections of this paper for a layer effect.

After adding the first gingerbread layer. I hand cut out the gingerbread family, applied rock candy stickles to all the white frosting and added red pearl pen to all the belly buttons. It was such a fun card to work on and you get to enjoy dessert without the sugar rush or calories.

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 8 Tree of Snowflakes Card

Tree of Snowflakes

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's card.

Today I am sharing a Tree of Snowflakes card. I love the green and red plaid pattern paper as the background for this card. It gives a sense of home and family. I wanted to make a simple card to go with this simple paper. I cut some triangles of different sizes from green cardstock. I left a hinge at the bottom of each triangle so I could give a raised but shadow effect on the card. And I embellished them using the Tim Holtz snowflake embossing folder.

After embossing I added red stickles to the embossed snowflakes. Yes, red stickles for red snowflakes, not white or blue. I was trying maintain the theme of the red and green plaid pattern paper. After the stickles had time to dry I added them to the card. I applied adhesive to the first layer and 3D foam dots to the second layer for the raised effect I was seeking.

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 7 Starry Night Reindeer Card

Starry Night Reindeer Card

Hope you enjoyed yesterday's brown present card.

Today I am sharing a Starry Night Reindeer Card. This card was a lot of fun to make and a lot of friends and family will be receiving this one. It is based off a sketch from Mojo Monday. The patterned paper is from Two Peas and the Indie Cards are also from Two Peas.

The card starts with a blue base. I added a twig patterned paper and from there the layering began. The reindeer were cut from the Tim Holtz reindeer die - which I seem to be using a LOT this season. Then I added a layer of brown paper and reindeer patterned paper. Then layered on the reindeer and sentiment Indie Card. The sentiment features Santa and his 8 reindeer flying over rooftops saying Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

The reindeer were cut on kraft paper and then misted with 2 different Tattered Angels mist and then Tim Holtz distress ink. A blue and white twine were knotted around there neck for extra texture. The finishing touch was smearing the distress stain white picket fence on the ears and tails.

This card is a hybrid in that it uses both traditional scrapbook supplies and also digital scrapbook supplies. I'm not sure it saves as much money as it feels like it should. But the digital paper allows you to size to the exact size you want.

Enjoy and merry christmas.

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 6 Presents Under the Tree

Presents Under the Tree

Hope you enjoyed yesterday's Poinsettia card. Today I am sharing a brown based card of presents hiding under the tree ready to surprise the little ones on Christmas morning.

This quilted Christmas tree is just delightful and I paired it with the corresponding brown pattern paper from the collection. I stitched brown and white twine around the first layer and added presents under the tree with 3D foam dots.

I added the rocking horse specifically for my Aunt Tammy. 

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 5 Poinsettia

3D Poinsettia Card

Hope you enjoyed yesterday's card!

Today I am sharing a red and gold poinsettia card with the sentiment "Peace on Earth". I selected a golden polka dot pattern paper to place on the green grid base. A poinsettia pattern paper was added and additional poinsettias were applied with foam dots to create a layered affect.  A red glitter ribbon was applied and then the sentiment "Peace on Earth".

It is a very traditional elegant card compared to the "Little Girl Believe" and "Cascading Ornaments" cards I have shared previously. But there are more pink and non-traditional card colors to come!

Enjoy and merry christmas!

12 Cards of Christmas Series - # 2 Musical Joy

I hope you enjoyed the Peppermint Flower Christmas card yesterday.

Today I am sharing a card I call "Musical Joy". The base is red cardstock, to which I added some Christmas music paper. The music paper is printed in red rather than traditional black and I spritzed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist spray. It's a good thing there were words on the paper as I didn't have to guess which way was up.

A beautiful red satin banner was added  and the word JOY was cut out on my Cricut utilizing red, green and white striped glitter paper. A chipboard holly image rounds out the ribbon nicely.

Enjoy!