Linda Coughlin, owner of the blog "The Funky Junkie" and the online craft shop of the same name (The Funky Junkie Boutique), has issued a challenge:
"Every September I start making a tag a week with a winter/Christmas theme and challenging my visitors to be inspired by something on the tag that will get them going on a winter/Christmas project of their own. I hope you will play along with my little challenge this year. It's a nice way to get your Christmas cards done.
"Here's the deal. Each Monday for the next 12 weeks, I will post a Christmas tag. If you wish to play along, you can make any sort of Christmas or winter themed DIY project. It can be a tag, but doesn't have to be. It can be a Christmas card, a holiday decoration, a scrapbook layout, a tree ornament, a banner, whatever you want but it does have to be inspired by my tag and must be Christmas or winter themed."
Below is the fourth tag of her 2017 series:
"Every September I start making a tag a week with a winter/Christmas theme and challenging my visitors to be inspired by something on the tag that will get them going on a winter/Christmas project of their own. I hope you will play along with my little challenge this year. It's a nice way to get your Christmas cards done.
"Here's the deal. Each Monday for the next 12 weeks, I will post a Christmas tag. If you wish to play along, you can make any sort of Christmas or winter themed DIY project. It can be a tag, but doesn't have to be. It can be a Christmas card, a holiday decoration, a scrapbook layout, a tree ornament, a banner, whatever you want but it does have to be inspired by my tag and must be Christmas or winter themed."
Below is the fourth tag of her 2017 series:
OK, this tag is Victorian to the core! Vintage colors, silhouettes, top hats and holly! Those are the parts I took to create my own version but I changed it up in that I don't have that caroler dye set.
I started with a background: Stamped music using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, spread tinted Texture Paste (Lindy's Gang "Green With Envy Green spray as the tinting agent) through a layering stencil of holly leaves, and blending more Vintage Photo around the tag edges:
I started with a background: Stamped music using Vintage Photo Distress Ink, spread tinted Texture Paste (Lindy's Gang "Green With Envy Green spray as the tinting agent) through a layering stencil of holly leaves, and blending more Vintage Photo around the tag edges:
I die-cut the "Festive Get" BIGX die in matte black, red and dark green; liberally painted Wink of Stella "black" on the gent's hat, coat and shoes; cut and collaged the wreath, scar and bows and collage a gent who might very well be on his way to join a caroling group of his own:
I popped the gent up on the background and added a tinsel cord to complete my version of Tag #4:
Products used in the making of this tag were:
- Stamps: Stampendous “Decor Music” (DCR105)
- Stencils: Stampers Anonymous Layering Stencil “Holly Bough” (THS015)
- Inks: Distress “Vintage Photo”; Lindy’s Gang “Starburst Spray “Green With Envy Green”; Wik of Stella “Black” (GL 010)
- Dies: Sizzix BIGZ “Festive Gent” (660034)
- Papers: Distress Tags (TDA53828); scraps of matte black, red and dark green cardstock
- EMbelishemnts: Clea Metallic Tinsel Cord
- Media: Ranger texture Paste Opaque Matte
- Adhesives: EK Tool 3-D Foam Dots
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