ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #527 - CHRISTMAS

It's time for another Christmas challenge here at ATSM and this week I've chosen to create a tag.  I can never have enough tags at Christmas and I've kept all the ones I've used on family gifts over the years. I grab them off them quick once they've opened their presents and save them! 

I do love Mr Frostie from Tim Holtz and here I've given him a slightly more vintage feel.  I used water colour paper to get the effect I wanted.  I used Distress Ink in Speckled Egg, Weathered Wood and Brushed Corduroy as my colours drying each layer with my heat tool before I added another one.  I then added just a tiny spritz of Broken China to the glass mat before adding it to the tag just to add a touch of brighter blue.

I stamped Mr Frostie in Versafine Nocturne and added some White Picket Fence Distress Crayon to the inside of his body and the tiniest bit of Kitsch Flamingo distress crayon for his cheek.  I added some background stamping from the same set of the music and the snowflakes and added Broken China Distress Spritz to the snowflakes. I used a paint marker pen to add some white splatters over the tag.  Finally I found an old Tim Holtz metal tag which I added some white paint to and fixed to the top with some hand dyed thread. 

I'm adding this into the following:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday  AG 

ABC Christmas - S is for Snowman 

Rudolph Day Challenge - AG 

Aud Sentiments - Tag 

PEARLY SPARKLES - SNOWPEOPLE

Our challenge this month at Pearly Sparkles is snowpeople - snowmen, snowwomen, snowkids - I think you get the idea.  I have recently purchased Mr Frostie from Tim Holtz - I loved it last year but it was sold out so I was delighted to be able to get it this year and to be honest I can't stop using it.  I think I'm already boring Instagram with images!

I used the snowflakes from the set to create the background using the watercolour stamp technique.  Add ink to the stamp then spritz with water to give a soft image.  I added extra touches of ink in Salvaged Patina and Salty Ocean and scribbled a border around the outside.

I used an image from Tim Holtz from one of his large Collage Strips and I loved the way this couple were standing behind the snowman.  It fit the sentiment from the set perfectly.  I stamped Mr Frostie separately and cut him out - I added some Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Texture Paste to the snowman's body which makes him sparkle but sadly it doesn't show on the picture.  To finish off the card I added an old Tim Holtz snowflake.