12 tags of Christmas tag 6

So as you may know, I've been playing along with the 12 Tags of Christmas
Challenge that is being hosted by Linda at The Funkie Junkie
this is my rendition of week 6!
You can find her creation here
I was inspired by her bow, and the coloring on her tag!

I have to be honest, I really struggled with this tag!

the top part feels too heavy to me!

And the bottom half a little bare...

Oy... so I wanted something shiny, so I tried embossing my pretty cut out

and it turned out ok, and then I did a little embossing on the edges of

the little tag I made as well!

Definitely not my favorite tag, but it was definitely challenging!

If you remember this fabulous challenge is being sponsored by Linda's store

The funkie Junkie Boutique

also entering this into Creative Inspirations: Traditional christmas colors challenge

12 tags of Christmas: week 7

Good Monday morning!

Today I have another Christmas tag for the 12 Tags of Christmas 

That I've been playing along with at The Funkie Junkie 

I was inspired by Linda's bow! Oh you gotta go check out that bow!

Mine certainly doesn't do it justice... (Linda what was the secret?)

But I tried...

If you remember this challenge is being sponsored by Linda's 

Shop Funkie junkie boutique which is currently closed as Linda and her husband are in the

Process of moving! 

But she'll be back up and running soon! 

I hope you've enjoyed all these tags, I've got them all hanging up in the craft room!

It's feeling at least a little festive in here!

Funkie junkie tag 10

I know! Two posts back to back??

I've been hard at work on both of these tags for the last day, and 

They seem to have come together at nearly the same time! So here goes!

This tag is also for The funkie junkie 12 tags of Christmas challenge

This is for week 10. 

Remember this great challenge is being sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique

Where Linda is offering a fabulous prize!

I was most inspired by her brick wall background!

I had a fabulous time trying to recreate it!

I also tried to do the icicles, but alas I left them on my work table

And koa kat got to them overnight!

It's ok, it gave me a chance to break out my new washi tape from Freckled fawn

I'm also playing along with the challenge at Cut it up challenges which is

Ugly Christmas sweater... Use up your ugly papers!

This green paper definitely fits the bill!

I can only imagine what was going through my head when I bought it... And I bought two of them??

Seriously what was I thinking??

Here's a close up!

I tried my best to make the leaves look better!

Sort of looks like snow??

I also made a glittery ornament out of a die cut circle that I covered with glossy accents

And then some silvery glitter..

This is for the challenge at Crafty catz where the challenge is to sparkle it up!

Hope your crafting instead of stressing today!

My tag also fits in the challenge at Desert island crafts challenge #42

And includes Christmas, red and green, twine, and sparkle!

Funkie junkie tag #9

Happy day before Thanksgiving

Are you all prepped and ready for the craziness??

I know I am! Lucky me I don't have to do all the cooking... 

I work Thanksgiving night, and we all bring a part of the meal! Yeah!

I'm soooo looking forward to Steph's green bean casserole,

And I'm trying out my Great Aunt Jewell's chocolate divine dessert... Mmmmmm

Ok ok, enough jabbering on.. 

This post is actually another Christmas tag from The funkie junkie week 9

Hop on over and see what Linda created! 

Then you'll see I was inspired by her layout, and her background

This challenge is being brought to you by her store The funkie junkie boutique

Where she's having a moving sale!  Yep, she's headed to Gainesville from South Florida!

Sooooo for the background I cut a piece of scrapbook paper with that wood!

I then die cut all the hearts out of some distress papers

Then I used my new distress stain to ink up the hearts

I was also inspired by the button on Linda's creation with the twine 

I only had a super small piece, so I made it work

Then I added the ticket, the number 4 and the bow on top!

The leaf is also a die cut that I grunted up with my sanding block

Here's another look!

I also am playing along with: 

Seriously creative challenges: Wood

Shopping our stash: Leaves

Cut it up challenge: Buttons everywhere

Funkie junkie tag 8

I'm getting this tag up just under the wire for the challenge over at 

Little darlings where the challenge is to make a tag using a saturated canary image

I'm also of course playing along with Linda over at 

The funkie junkie this is for tag number 8

I know I'm out of order but I had to try out my new distress stains!

I was inspired by Linda's layout

And of course the distress stains (aren't they amazing??)

Join up with the funkie junkie challenge for a chance to win an awesome

Gift card from Linda's shop 

The funkie junkie boutique

Here's one more shot of this fab tag!

Entering this into:

Simon says Stamp and Show: Stamp without ink (I used glue to stamp for the snowflakes!)

Crafty Sentiments: Christmas

Alphabet Challenges: T for Tags

Christmas tag #5

Good Monday morning!

Today I'm sharing my newest installment of the 12 tags of Christmas

I've been following along with miss Linda at The funkie junkie

This is my 5th installment! 

However I am still 4 behind! Ahhh will I ever catch up?

I certainly hope so as Linda's store The funkie junkie boutique is sponsoring this 12 week challenge,

And there is a fab prize at the end..

So, here is my tag

I was inspired by many things on Linda's tag, but most of all

I tried to reproduce the snowflakes on the background

They were stamped and heat embossed with clear 

Embossing powder, which as many of you know makes a resist

I was then able to ink over them with vintage photo distress ink

Voila! Plus I got to use some of those used holiday stamps

I have laying around!

Hope you like, and that you're getting your craft on this wonderful Monday!

Funkie junkie tag 4

I have been a bad bad Halloween blogger the last few days!  

It's simply been busy, and Hubby and I are now in full swing getting ready for mom and dad's arrival

at the end of the week! 

We couldn't be more excited! 

I seem to be moving more into the Christmas Spirit the last few days, so you may see a few more

Halloween posts, but I'm being pulled into the world of glitter and greens and reds!  AHHHH

However I've been following the funkie junkie's blog challenge for 12 Christmas tags!

I am sort of glad that I'm still a few weeks behind, it gives me something to dream about ha ha ha

Today however I'm sharing my rendition of week 4!

Miss Linda has the most fabulous creations, and I've pulled a few different pieces of her creation for this tag!

(You can see her creation here)

and here is mine... 

I was very excited to be able to use my new embossing folder for the red background that I distressed using my sanding block!  I then glittered up the die cut star with some gold glitter, and I die cut a tag and stamped "dream" on it, then added a cut out of Tim Holtz Ideology paper and of course some twine!

The flower is the two smallest tattered flowers die cuts using kraft glassine.

A quick stamp towards the top of the card, and then I added a burlap string with some more twine 

and a button, just like Laurie did!  (only her's is much better!)

I'm enjoying these tags immensely! 

And the best part is that Laurie's store (found here) called the Funkie Junkie Boutique 

 is sponsoring this challenge,

and she is offering a fabulous prize to 3 winners!!!  Wow!

It's certainly not to late to join in the festivities, and the best part is they don't have to be tags, you just have to take some inspiration from what she's created!  

Which for me it seems is always a LOT!