Day 6 Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll & Friends!

Loll is half way thru her Twelve Day Christmas Tag Event!

Six more days of inspiring tags from Loll and her Guest Designers.

But you have until the 24th to link your Christmas Tags!

Here is my Day 6 Holly Tag!

I love how my sweet holly tag turned out using a favorite SU retired 2 step stamping set..."Watercolor Winter".  I used it with a trendy technique...placing my die cut tag in my MISTI and arranging the solid leaves and berries stamp and coloring with Garden Green and Real Red markers then spritzing lightly with water and stamping.  

Next I arranged the lined stamp and stamped over the leaves and berries with Archival Jet Black ink.  I loved the watercolor effect.  I used the same steps for the stamped upper part of the tag.

I kept the tag in MISTI and arranged 2 sentiments from Penny Black "Holiday Snippets" stamp set and stamped with Archival Jet Black ink.  Added Real Red silk ribbon and white twine.  Done.

A pretty little tag for a tray of cookies:-)

Hope you get to play along in Loll's tag event.  A fun way to get your Christmas Tags done ahead!

So much awesome inspiration from Loll's and her Guest Designers daily Tags!

The guidelines for the challenge are that it must be a mixed media Christmas Tag (any style/any size), which includes stamping,  plus two mixed media elements (techniques or products).

Happy Holidays my friends...Hugs!

Adding to STAMPlorations Never-Ending Anything Goes

Supplies:

Stamps: SU Watercolor Winter.  PB Holiday Snippets

Paper: SU Shimmery White

Ink: SU Garden Green and Real Red markers.  Archival Jet Black

Accessories: CUTplorations Luggage Tag (Medium).MISTI. SU ribbon (ret) and white twine, spritzer.

Loll's 12 Tags of Christmas 2016..Season's Greetings

Today is Loll's Day One of her "Twelve Tags of Christmas with Loll and Friends" Event! This is Loll's 3rd Annual Event and is such a fun and inspiring way to get your Christmas Tags made up a head of the Christmas Rush.

Lots of layers on this tag...I started with a Tim Holtz  3" x 6 1/4" Manila tag.  Painting on 2 thick coats of Gesso, drying between coats.  Then using a ruler and pencil to draw a 1 1/2" x 3" rectangle.   Next I stamped my fir tree with Versamark and Heat Embossed with Vintage Verdigris EB powder.

I used Wet on Wet watercoloring with a #8 paint brush to add several layers of Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Walnut Stain and Black Soot.  When dry I used the same technique to add Distress Inks to my rectangle.

Next I masked my rectangle and stamped the snowflakes, sponged the edges of tag with Black Soot, added the Chevron ribbon, linen thread, wood snowflake and sentiments.

How long did this take...oh a couple of days as layers dried and I needed time to think about the next step.  I had plenty of other things to do between the steps,  so I did not mind!

The very last step....hurray!  Snow flake splatters with diluted white acrylic paint using a paint brush.

Jill Foster's One Layer Stamping and Painting Video for Penny Black was very helpful for my watercoloring technique.

Enjoy and hope you get to play along with Loll and Friends Tag Event.  You have until November 25th to join the fun with your tags.  Hugs.....

Card Recipe
Stamps: SU Serene Snowflakes and Evergreen (ret). STAMPlorations  Oh, Christmas Tree sentiment
Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Walnut Stain, Black Soot, Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Mowed Lawn and..a few more I'm sure...lol! SU Early Espresso for snowflakes and sentiment.
Accessories: Tim Holtz Manila Tag, paint brushes, Golden's Gesso, SU Chevron ribbon, linen thread, wooden snowflake (ret) and EB paste (way retired).  SU Fine Tip Glue Pen.  Craft Sheet, sponge dauber
Techniques: Watercoloring Wet on Wet,  Heat EB, One Layer Stamping and Painting, masking, sponging