THE TIM HOLTZ 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 12

Today is the Grand Finale of the Tim Holtz 12 Days of Christmas tag series.  It was great fun to participate even though I chose to make cards rather than tags.  Today, I took my inspiration from Tim's tag as far as the colors - a beautiful blue, white and silver and many of his products but mine took on a totally different look.  First I started with Broken China Distress stain for my background and I covered that with the Music Tissue Tape.  I took a cereal box and covered it with Aluminum Duct Tape and ran it through an embossing folder and die cut letters for PEACE.  I stained the letters with blue alcohol ink then I mounted them on black cardstock shadows.  I stamped an angel image and embossed it with silver.  I cut it out and also mounted it on black leaving a very narrow border just to make the angel stand out more the way the letters had.  I added some blue gems in the centers of the snowflakes.  I made a rosette with a piece of lace, added a silver ribbon flower and put them both on a piece of silver tinsel.  I really enjoyed working on this one.  I have participated everyday and I am really going to miss it tomorrow morning.

Hope you have enjoyed viewing my cards.  Tomorrow I will decide who is getting which one and address them and get them out in the mail.

Have a peaceful blessed holiday season!

THE TIM HOLTZ 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 11

Today Tim did a very Jolly Santa on a beautiful blue background. He used a melting pot, shrink plastic, alcohol inks and UTee to make embellishments.  I had a very busy day today and only got to working on my tag this evening.  I did not have any shrink plastic (or a melting pot) so I used packaging and UTee and very small diecut leaves and a tree branch. I colored them with alcohol inks.  I did my background with several shades of blue Distress inks and stains on glossy cardstock. The background still looked too plain so I ran it through a holiday embossing folder for some texture. I stamped my Santa and HoHoHo in black on glossy cardstock.  I used red Distress ink and Walnut stain Distress ink on blending foam to color Santa and his reindeer.  I used Forest Green Distress stain to color the HoHoHo.  I added a bit of white Liquid Pearls for the snow on top of the letters.  I used foam tape to pop up the Santa and HoHoHo like Tim did.  Up in the corner I added my plastic Utee branch and leaves.  I added a few red pearls for the holly berries.

It's not my favorite but here it is:

Can't wait to see what Tim comes up with for the Grand Finale tomorrow!

THE TIM HOLTZ 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 4

For today's tag I actually had some of the right materials - in different colors or types/styles but closer than I've been on any other day.  First take a look at Tim's and then I will tell you all about mine.

To start, I didn't have grungeboard but I did have a Sizzix snowman die and snowflake die which I cut from a cereal box.  I didn't have the white stain so I used white gesso.  I cut the scarf and hat from felt.  Next I coated the snowman and snowflake with clear crackle accents as I didn't have the rock candy crackle paint.  I didn't get the nice crackles that Tim did but it does have an icy glaze to it.  I didn't have the Picket Fence stain so I used Faded Jeans and Broken China.  I misted my card front and dragged it through the stain.  I added more Broken China stain as I wanted a bit deeper of a color.  I then took some snowflake stamps and stamped on with Faded Jeans stain. I used Snow Cap Alcohol Ink to stamp a white swirl.  Finally the snowman and snowflake were dry and I was able to adhere them to the card front!

Here's the result:

I hope you are all enjoying Tim's Tags and my cards.  Please come back again tomorrow for Day 5.

THE TIM HOLTZ 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS - DAY 2

Today was the second day of the Tim Holtz tags.  See Tim's tag here.

I decided to do a card again.  I had to substitute for a lot of the materials again.  For my background, I used music stamps on kraft paper, resist ink, and Distress Stain Broken China over a Crafters Workshop swirled stencil. I don't have a reindeer die or sticky canvas so I used a reindeer stamp on kraft paper with walnut stain Distress ink.  I mounted it on chipboard, cut it out and used pop up tape under it.   I made the wreath with a pipe cleaner colored with Distress Ink and Green Stickles.  I added a shooting star sticker and added red brads to the gold borders which I put on the top and bottom.

And here's mine:

I hope you are enjoying my take on Tim's wonderful tags.  At the end I will have a series of Christmas cards all set to mail out just in time!