Happy Christmas

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Thank you so much for reading my blog over this last year.  I really appreciate the time you take to visit my blog and read my ramblings.

A #10 Manila tag

I haven't made a tag for ages.  Actually I feel as though I haven't been creative for ages!

As you know I can be quite dylusional and I belong to a group on Facebook for all those who have a similar addiction.  It's the Dyan Reaveley Society of Art Journaling.  If you're a Dyan fan, why not check us out!

Every now and again Dyan sets us a challenge using her products for an art journaling page.  I haven't been able to join in the other challenges but I decided I would give this one a go.  We had to use her snowflake stencil, Dylusions London Blue spray ink and Santa's Beard from the Christmas Accessories stamp.  I don't have the last item so I improvised.

I sprayed the London Blue and the Vibrant Turquoise onto my glass plate and squirted some water on as well.  I swiped a #10 tag through the inks and used another tag to take off the excess ink.

I sprayed water through the snowflake stencil and turned the stencil over and pressed the wet stencil on the bottom of the tag.

I stamped the holly down one side of the tag.  And painted the leaves with Holly Green Mica ink from Dyan's pre-Ranger range.  I used Christmas Red Stickles for the berries. I also put some modelling paste through the stencil in the hope that it might stay white but it didn't.  Never mind!

I made the figure using Tallulah Tripp and 3 of the beards for the skirt and one for the bodice.  I used glue and glitter.

I stamped the words from the Right Words set and stuck them on.

So there you are.  A finished tag.  And a challenge entry.

This morning I was reading Hels Sheridan's blog and found a challenge there using holly as a theme so I'm going to add it there as well.

Have a great day.  Thanks for popping in.

Bernice

December 2012

How will you record your memories of December or Christmas 2012? Or even 2012 itself?

Some people like to use the ideas from Ali Edwards for December Daily.  Others use Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas.  Some people keep an Advent Journal recording their thoughts about the true meaning of Christmas. Or how about trying Reverb 2012 with Hope Wallace.

I couldn't decide what to do.  I think I was all crafting-daily-out after 30 days of An Attitude of Gratitude and a holiday in Florida.

But then I saw these gorgeous papers from Anita: Christmas Carol Painted Papers

 
They are available as jpegs and I put them into Publisher to print off this time.

I decided I would make tags so I put 6 pieces of card in my printer and put 2 images on each Publisher page in landscape format.   I printed off all the designs then mixed up the printed sheets and printed them again on the back.  My card isn't very thick so I only printed with text quality.  If I had used manila card I would have printed picture quality.

Then I cut up the sheets to make 31 tags (well actually 32 - 16 doublesided tags) plus 2 covers.  I stuck the cover papers onto a manila tag and cut it down to size and then stuck another pattern on the back.

After I got this far I saw this blog post from Hope about her Reverb 2012 book.  So I decided to put blank tags in between the printed tags and follow along with the Reverb questions.

I am using Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink to edge each tag and to stamp with.

I looked through my scrapbooking stash for numbers and embellishments.  I used an Artist Cellar stencil that I bought in the States for the background on this tag.

This stamp is a Tim Holtz one bought from Joann's.

And this is another new stamp.

This is a Dyan Reaveley stencil.

I may decorate the tags further with embellishments, although I think Anita's designs are so lovely that I have difficulty covering them up!

If you would like to win a set of these pages please leave me a comment and I will choose a winner on Saturday morning. (10am GMT)