Wednesday, December 8, 2010

12 tags of Christmas-#7 and a Gingersnap entry

Well today I am going to kill 2 birds with one stone as they say. I saw a challenge over at Gingersnap Creations a few days ago and what better way to make a tag for this challenge and make it one of my 12 tags.
So the theme GC81: Chestnut Theme Challenge - is Snowpeople .
This tag took a bit of doing but turned out so cute. I love these snowmen in their globe and they just make me smile. I love snowmen, some peeps like Santas some like angels, some like gingerbread but I really like snowmen. When I first saw these stamps I had to break the bank and get it. I have had this a couple years now but I use it quite a bit for cards etc and I have some single snow peeps by the same designer.
This is a Canadian company called Sunshine Designs but you cannot buy from their site, you must find a retailer who sells them. I bought my locally.
Back to the tag.... I stamped the image on Watercolour paper with Black StazOn ink. I then used Watercolour pencils and waterbrush to colour my images with. I cut out the image and just ran a black ink pad around the edges, learned to do that trick after cutting images out from InkStains by Roni. I cut a shipping tag shape out of this great holiday BoBunny scrap paper. It is two sided and had purple swirls on the back so I cut a few strips with decorative scissors and put a little trim at the top and bottom of the tag. Still needs something......I found a strip of sticky backed snowflakes in my stash and cut some to fit the top and bottom just for a bit of filler and eye candy. Oh and I also inked the edges of the tag before placing the snowglobe on with Dusty Concord DI. I then took a Studio G clear stamp and stamped Friends in the same ink on a scrap of WC paper inked the edges then attached the globe and the Friends sign with some foam tape to raise them off the tag a bit. I added some.......you guessed it ....Stickles to the large dots on the bottom of the globe and added some white fiber and that was it.
So a bit different than distressing but I like how it turned out. Thanks for dropping by again and hope to hear from you soon. I see a couple peeps are commenting every day, so.....keep up girls.
Til next time......create with what you have.


6 comments:

  1. This is soooo cute.. love the snow globe and snowmen.. a great entry...xo

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  2. Very cute! I'm a snowman collector too. These guys are adorable. Great non-traditional Christmas colors - very fun. Thanks!

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  3. Love the snowmen and also like the crisp black outlined with the colouring - one of my favourite methods. You have reminded me of an older snowman stamp that I have, I am off to dig it out and get busy - thank you for the inspiration

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  4. This is beautiful. You come by liking snowmen honestly. They are my absolute favourite! Keep them coming sweetheart!

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  5. super sweet tag and the snow people stamp is adorable!

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  6. A fantastic tag! The snowpeople are so cute!!! Thanks for playing along with Gingersnap Creations.

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