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Friday, December 11, 2009

Tidings of Joy Tag


Here is another tag. This one uses green as the main colour theme, but also has red as a contrast. Not much stamping on this tag but I was wanting a Christmas holly style to it. Think I achieved what I wanted to, but I am never really satisfied with what I do. Must say though, often when I come back to what I have done next day, it almost always looks better. I think I get overload when I do a project from beginning to end in one session. What about you?

Anyways this began life as a pale pink base cut from card ! It was just what came to hand and because I was using a Distress ink background it really didn't matter.

I swooshed Distress ink in shabby shutters and pine needles onto a non-stick craft sheet and spritzed with water. Layed the tag face down on ink and lifted off and dried with a heat gun. This was repeated a few times (drying in between) until the background was to my liking.



I then inked a swirl stamp (Crafty Individuals) with pine needles Distress ink and stamped in a couple of places and then heat embossed with detail fine clear embossing powder. This provided a nice shine and enhanced the green too.

I then moved to the bottom of the tag and cut a strip of 7 Gypsies backing paper as the base of the embellishment and stuck this in place with glue stick. I then applied some red holly berries and shiny sequin leaves held in place with Pinflair Glue gel. This was allowed to set before the next step. Below this strip I applied some rub-on gold holly border.




Next I used a chipboard tag from a set of dovecraft tags and inked it with lightning white Brilliance to tone down the colour a little. To this I then applied the word 'JOY' as a gold rub-on and edged the letters with opaque pigment pen. I then took a short length of red satin ribbon and stamped it with the same CI stamp and pine needles Distress ink. Drying with a heat gun before applying a brad and mounting the tag as shown on foam pads.


Finally I added a dark green eyelet with the cropodile and edged the whole tag with dark green chalk ink.


Sid xx

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15 comments:

  1. very nice!! love the background
    isa

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  2. I love the tag - those berries are fab and I am the same as you ... never happy on the day ... usually the next day I think it looks OK ... I don't make much that I like long term though ... never have ... there are very few pieces that I keep.

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  3. Seems to be tags everywhere you look at the mo!!!!! Love the fab traditional colours of this one xxxx

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  4. I am absolutely loving your tags Sid - brilliant

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  5. Fab tag .. love the colours and the holly

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  6. Loving your Christmas tags........ watch out Timbo!

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  7. Wonderful tag, love the background!

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  8. like the colours and especially the little holy leaves and berries :)

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  9. I love everything about this tag!!! The background is stunning, and your composition is great. I know what you mean about never being happy with your own work at first. Guess it's an artist's "thing." Glad I found your blog. I'll be back for more visits soon!

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  10. I think this tag is great. Love the colors and you did achieve the "holly" look to this. I thank that there are many of us that aren't always happy with what we do, until we sit back and look at it in a different light or on a different day. We are our own worst critics .....Thanks

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  11. Love this tag - the background colours are gorgeous.

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  12. Gorgeous tag...I am often like you - not all together pleased with the final product ...then the " scrappin' fairies " come in the night and seem to add just a touch of something to make the work look more to my liking...what is it - pixie dust??
    Whatever ...it works!
    Thanks for sharing this !

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  13. I love your ideas and appreciate that you share how you made it. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. Great work, thank you!

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  14. This is lovely Sid - love the colours xx

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  15. So many things I like about this tag! I like tags in general - this one is AWESOME! Great elements!

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