12 Tags of Christmas - Day 7

We're winding down to the homestretch.  Today is day 7 of the 12 Tags of Christmas .... following along with Tim Holtz.  I'm so proud of myself in able to keep this up.  Nothing else is getting done.... lol.... but at least I know that I will have accomplished this task at hand.  I am learning all sorts of new techniques that I've never tried out before.  You really need to go to his blog and see the tags that he is creating.  So go here.... Tim Holtz.

So today's tag used a lot of different techniques, and again, I'm without a lot of the items that he used.  Now if someone would like to gift me with any Tim Holtz supplies.... I would graciously accept them.  He  cut flowers and leaves using sticky backed canvas ..... now where can I find some of that locally.  I had an appointment to take my mom to, so on the way home we have to pass Michael's... so  I stopped in there very quickly.  They didn't have that, but what I found was some Canvas paper by Strathmore and thought I could see about making this work as an alternative.  The other thing that I didn't have is the wood grain folder that Tim used to emboss the tag with.  But have no fear, I used another one..... "Rays".  I should have taken a picture of the tag before I embellished it, but oh well.... I'll have to remember to do that next time.

I'm still in search of the Rock Candy Distress Stickles.  It's on my wish list.
Again, I used my cricut to cut out different elements that I needed for this tag.  This time, I used the font from Hannah Montana cartridge, and the flowers were cut from Accent Essentials.

So without further ado once again, here's my day 7 tag.

Closeup of Bottom of tag.

Closup of flower to show a bit more detail.

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge - Flower and Leaves

Hannah Montana Cricut Cartridge - Joyful

Shipping Tag

Ribbon from stash

Button from Joanns

Rhinestones

Crystal Stickles

Glimmer Mist - Meadow Green,  Burnt Red, Cherub Pink

Tim Holtz Embossing Folder - Rays

Tim Holtz Grunge Paper

Distress Inks:

Walnut Stain

Vintage Photo

Forest Moss

Fired Brick

Crushed Olive

Frayed Burlap

Alcohol Ink - Cranberry

A Superman Layout

I've not done any layouts in a while and I'm really behind in scrapbooking all of my pictures.  At this rate, I'll never catch up.  Hopefully, my unemployment will be ending soon and I can become a productive working citizen once again.  But in the meantime, I'll continue to do my crafting.

I had printed these pictures of my grandson's 5th birthday party and they were staring at me saying... please make a layout and put them in my book.  LOL!  So I did.  It still needs the journaling done, but I didn't want to post all of that on here for the world to see.

I got an SCAL image of superman from http://mardenz.blogspot.com/ and pieced him out.  Not a bad job.
I used Disney Hannah Montana Cricut Cartridge for the wording.  It was pop dotted off the page.  I used my Signo white pen and drew in some lines for a bit of an effect.
Paper used was Bazzill card stock and the patterned paper .... I believe was a Making Memories paper (4th of July).  It went very well with the color theme.

Altered Boxes

While browsing at my local hangout.... LOL! ... Michael's, they were restocking the $ bins and putting in all sorts of neat things.  Those little $ items add up quickly, so you have to be really careful or you can spend $100 on those little items in no time.

They had these cute little boxes and I wasn't going to get any, but decided to pick up 2 of the 3 styles they had.  I think I'll go back and get some more because I can see these used for little gifts.

I took the knobs off of them and painted them with Pearlescent paints for a little glimmer.
I covered them with DCWV papers from the Safari stack (butterfly print) and Saffron stack (loved the colors).  I then punched small holes in the tops with my cropodile and added eyelets so I run ribbon thru them.

The little tube purse has a small piece of letter to go around the knob for closure, but I'm going to run out and get some colored elastic since that piece of leather doesn't hold too great.

The other purse had some elastic on it, but it didn't match after I covered it with that gorgeous butterfly paper, so it will get some new elastic as well.  I tried several things as a closure, but they weren't working for me.

On the larger purse, I used the Disney Hannah Montana Cricut Cartridge and cut out the butterfly.   I layered it and glued it down, adding a little rhinestone in the middle of it.  It will hold a cell phone and a few other necessities. I'm thinking my friends daughters might like this for when they are hanging out with friends and just a few items vs a large handbag.

Forgot to take pictures of the round tube before it was altered, and remembered when I had disassembled the larger one.  So, it went from this......

to this......

Recipe:

Wooden boxes from Michael's

DCWV Safari Stack

DCWV Saffron Stack

Rhinestones

Eyelets

Ribbon (from my stash)

Disney Hannah Montana Cartridge

I think I might go back and embellish them a little bit more.