Wednesday, 23 December 2009
If You Can
Just a quickie. Was going through my bloglist and went to A Place to Bark - the video reduced me to tears and I just had to make another donation. If you are an animal lover please visit Bernie Berlin's "A Place to Bark" (see my sidebar) and look at what she is achieving.
The Other Six
Got up early this morning as my hip was aching and besides which I must do a dust and polish around the house - spent far too much time crafting (LOL) and we need to go out and get the turkey! On the bus I might add, not able to get the car out yet.
Tag 7
This was my seventh tag. A different Father Christmas but still Tim's masking technique. The white flourishes don't show up much but they are there. Was stuck for what wording to put on until I remembered this "Joy" stamp - it just fits.
Tag 8
This was my favourite of all Tim's tags when I saw them. I don't know why but I love this lamp post stamp. Might need to get Tim's though as I do like it. Loved doing his technique with the vellum. The key was one I found in the drawer, not sure what it is for but I felt it was the right choice as I didn't have the one he used. Again I think I need those keys.
Tag 9
Now at the risk of upsetting the creator I must say I was not that thrilled with this tag. That is until I did it. I love it and it is one of my faves. Because of lack of supplies it got left until the last. I really must get some of that film strip Tim used.
For my film strip I used black cardstock and punched down the side, measured the photographs and punched down the other side. I think it worked out pretty well. The main photograph I cut out a deckle edge because I remember old photographs having edges like that, shows my age! Put on tiny photo corners (took me ages to make them so small) and made my own words up to fit on the tag. The flower is a German Scrap again but I coloured it in with my Alcohol Inks this time. Finally the letters "S" and "C" were stamped and embossed and then I put Page Pebbles over the top.
Tag 10
I thoroughly enjoyed making this one as I love using my paper stump on metal sheeting. As you can see I did go over mine with a Black Dabber because I liked the antique look and felt it fit in better with the other tags.
Tag 11
This has now become one of my favourite tags. I just love the fresh green colours. Had to improvise with the reindeer and used the one that my friend Mary gave me when I was in America in November. I don't have one of those brad making tools so I found some letter brads and I think they work quite well. I like the contrast of black against this green so I stamped the words and embossed them on a strip of cardstock and put that on at the top.
Tag 12
Here is my final tag. What a mess I made of my fingers when I was doing the roses. I still have green down the sides of my thumb nail. Was so glad I was not doing any baking that day (or the next one). They were not supposed to be greenish but I quite liked them when they were done.
Well, that is it! My 12 tags for Christmas. What an enjoyable journey I had making them. The one "plus" of all this snow. All that is left is for me to display them. Perhaps I will take a photograph and upload it tomorrow as I am sure I won't have much time to do anything else for my blog. On the other hand I could write up my list of WANTS (or are they NEEDS) ready for my next trip to America!
Is it really Christmas Eve tomorrow?
Tag 7
This was my seventh tag. A different Father Christmas but still Tim's masking technique. The white flourishes don't show up much but they are there. Was stuck for what wording to put on until I remembered this "Joy" stamp - it just fits.
Tag 8
This was my favourite of all Tim's tags when I saw them. I don't know why but I love this lamp post stamp. Might need to get Tim's though as I do like it. Loved doing his technique with the vellum. The key was one I found in the drawer, not sure what it is for but I felt it was the right choice as I didn't have the one he used. Again I think I need those keys.
Tag 9
Now at the risk of upsetting the creator I must say I was not that thrilled with this tag. That is until I did it. I love it and it is one of my faves. Because of lack of supplies it got left until the last. I really must get some of that film strip Tim used.
For my film strip I used black cardstock and punched down the side, measured the photographs and punched down the other side. I think it worked out pretty well. The main photograph I cut out a deckle edge because I remember old photographs having edges like that, shows my age! Put on tiny photo corners (took me ages to make them so small) and made my own words up to fit on the tag. The flower is a German Scrap again but I coloured it in with my Alcohol Inks this time. Finally the letters "S" and "C" were stamped and embossed and then I put Page Pebbles over the top.
Tag 10
I thoroughly enjoyed making this one as I love using my paper stump on metal sheeting. As you can see I did go over mine with a Black Dabber because I liked the antique look and felt it fit in better with the other tags.
Tag 11
This has now become one of my favourite tags. I just love the fresh green colours. Had to improvise with the reindeer and used the one that my friend Mary gave me when I was in America in November. I don't have one of those brad making tools so I found some letter brads and I think they work quite well. I like the contrast of black against this green so I stamped the words and embossed them on a strip of cardstock and put that on at the top.
Tag 12
Here is my final tag. What a mess I made of my fingers when I was doing the roses. I still have green down the sides of my thumb nail. Was so glad I was not doing any baking that day (or the next one). They were not supposed to be greenish but I quite liked them when they were done.
Well, that is it! My 12 tags for Christmas. What an enjoyable journey I had making them. The one "plus" of all this snow. All that is left is for me to display them. Perhaps I will take a photograph and upload it tomorrow as I am sure I won't have much time to do anything else for my blog. On the other hand I could write up my list of WANTS (or are they NEEDS) ready for my next trip to America!
Is it really Christmas Eve tomorrow?
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