I finally have a little bit of a breather from every day life and thought I would post the December tag exchange tags I made with the theme of "Red" and also the Christmas Cards I made to send to friends and family this year. I made a total of 52 cards which kept me busy! I am looking forward to creating the tags for January very soon!
For the Stocking tag, I used four different red textiles to make up the background, and then used one of the background textiles for the stocking. It is filled with miniature ornaments and more of those mini ornaments are also added to the bottom to give the tag a little bit of movement and interest. The back of the tag is made with a silk fabric with a swatch of cream linen fabric that I stamped the sentiment on, as well as my name and date and added a border with a gold ink blended in the fabric. The trim around the edges is gold ribbon glued to the fabrics. I added bits of different yarns that I had for the tie on top, as well as a few adornments, which you can't see in the picture, tied on the yarn pieces.
This "Ice Princess" tag starts with textured white gesso with sprinkles of the tiniest specks of glitter, also not visible in the picture. Her hair is made of leaves from a holiday pick to be used in making flower arrangements. I added small dots around the bodice of her dress and also around the neckline with perfect pearl pen with a tint of blue. The back is covered with a small piece of wallpaper remnant, to which I added the snowflakes and "Red" label made from card stock and glued on.
Pictured below is the front and back of the card I made and sent along with the tags. The base is made from a piece of holiday card stock, which I left original for the back of the card. The front is a collage which is made from a napkin (the santa) and different ribbons and tissue paper. I added a few stamps and the Ho Ho Ho sentiment is stamped with gold on a red piece of card stock. The top and bottom border is gold ribbon and a piece of red yarn. I liked how it turned out in person, the photo is not so flattering!
I have snapped just a few of the Christmas cards I sent out to friends and family. The tree is made from a coffee filter sprayed with 3 different Dylusion sprays and topped off with a gold tinted Tattered Angels spray. I folded the coffee filter in the shape of the tree and added ornaments that I cut from my different gelli prints. The garland is made from glitter glue and the tree trunks are made from a National Geographic page treated with citra solve. The gifts under the tree are scraps of Christmas wrapping paper cut to different sizes with a hand drawn bow and ribbon on top and down the front.
Snowflake stamps and a Winter Wishes stamp adorned the back and front of the envelopes.
