It's day six!! We're half way through the 12 Tags of Christmas and I couldn't be having more fun! It has been such a blast to create my own interpretation of Tim's tag and to come up with solutions for how to make embellishments that aren't in my stash. Today's tag is one of my favorites! Tim again stunned his blog readers with an amazing vintage truck carrying a tree covered in white sparkly fluff. (He even "tied" the tree to the roof of the truck with twine...brilliant!)I again followed Tim's technique for covering my tag, which consisted of attaching newspaper to the background (Tim used a dictionary page), then aging the piece with ink and a distressing tool. I also added a big 'ol swirl (a favorite element) and sentiment, from Kitchen Sink Stamps, in cranberry red. And that's where the similarities end...because...while I own two jars of sparkly fluff, I only own a chocolate brown and orange...not a jar of white fluff in sight! So I created hills that were covered in brown fluff! To make the hills I tore pieces of kraft cardstock into a hill shape and then crinkled up the paper. After smoothing the paper, I ran a blending tool, loaded with distress ink, over the paper. The ink sticks more to the creased section and the edges, creating depth and shadows. I then used glossy accents to adhere the sparkly fluff. The hills were overlapped and glued to the tag.
My trees, compliments of GinaK, were embossed with olive embossing powder on kraft cardstock, aged with olive ink, and attached with dimensional tape.And then...this may be my favorite part...I created a faux metal tag! Tim used one of those fancy real metal tags but...well...you know...I don't have any of those special trinkets. (Is anyone feeling sorry for me yet? LOL!) To create the metal tag, I dumped a big 'ol pile of silver embossing powder onto a piece of cardstock (no VersaMark, just a pile of embossing powder). Using a heat gun, apply heat to the embossing powder by holding the gun underneath the paper. It will take some time but eventually the entire pile of powder will melt. Then, working quickly, ink up your stamp with VersaMark ink and push it into the hot embossing powder. Once my "tag" cooled, I used Nestibilities die cuts to cut out the tag shape, which is attached with a safety pin to my ribbon.
And that is the story of today's tag!! I can't wait to see what Tim has in store for us tomorrow...This has been such a fun adventure in experimentation and creating!! Thanks Tim!








If you check out Tim's tag, you'll see that he attached some wonderful gold edging (probably more of those pesky metal trinkets) on the top and bottom of his card. To create my edging, I used a SU! corner punch (without the corner device attached) to punch out a decorative strip of cardstock. I then covered the strip in VersaMark, by pushing the strip into the ink pad, and dumped gold embossing powder all over it! A little heat and voila, I have my own faux metal trinkets. :-) Here's a better shot:
Once I created my Fragment pieces (check out Tim's blog for step-by-step directions on how to complete these) and attached them to my card, I simply added a rub on sentiment from SU! Most of the images used on my tag are from SU!, with the exception of the swirls on the background, which are from 
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Here's a close up shot of one of the better plaid sections...
And my one metal trinket!
The stamp set I used is from Stampin' Up! and the swirls are from 
And here is the layered flower...First the leaves, then two flowers, and finally a yellow rhinestone for the center of the flower. Everything has been attached with dimensional tape.
You know...now that Tim has shown us how to use all these amazing products and tools, my Christmas list just got longer! I have to get my hands on the metal trinkets...they are so much fun!
And in this final photo, you can see the dimension to the butterfly and sentiment. I also like to bend up the butterfly wings and sentiment to give the illusion of movement.
Hope you enjoyed today's random tag...I had a blast making making it and am looking forward to more Tim artwork in the coming days!! Yippee!!










