12 Tags of Christmas - Day 10

Frosty the Snowman... was a ........ ok... you get the gist.
Todays tag is quite cute and would make a good tag to put on a child's present... but I'm not.  LOL! These are all for me.  I will use them on a tree stand to display them for everyone to see.

So again, I don't have some of the elements... but I'm not going to let that stop me.  Take a look at Tim's day 10 tag.  It's really cute.  He's come up with some of the neatest dies.  But alas, my cricut to the rescue.  I found a culte little snowman on my Joys of the Season cricut cartridge and used it instead.  I cut it out using grungepaper.  I stamped the Sentiment and then took it a bit further by embossing it with some UTEE so it would stand out more.

And here's day 10's tag:

Here's the top of the tag.  I like the embossing acrylic on top.

And I embossed the sentiment so it would stand out.  I went back and used Black stickles on the broom making it look more like a lamppost.

Recipe:

Shipping tag

Joys of the Season Cricut cartridge

Tulle and Ribbon from stash

Black Stickles

Acrylic sheet

Sizzix Snowflakes Embossing folder

UTEE

Tim Holtz brads

Tim Holtz Grungepaper

Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snow Cap

Distress Inks:

Faded Jeans

Stormy Sky

Walnut Stain

Black Soot

Happy Hanukkah Card Set

I usually try to send out Hanukkah cards to my Jewish friends.  And this year is no different.  I had intended to do another technique, but I couldn't find an element that I needed for the cards... so I switched gears.  I hope my friends like my creativity.

Recipe:

Cricut Cartridge - Joys of the Season (Sentiment and Menorrah)

DCWV Glitter Stack  (Silver and White)

DCWV Shimmer Stack (Blue)

Yellow Stickles (flames)

Ribbon - Holiday Inspirations (Joanns)

Mother's Day is Coming Up Soon

I'm trying to keep ahead of the game by knowing what I need to get done for upcoming holidays and special events.  The next big event is Mother's Day.  Since I've not done any etching in a while, I decided to do a Mother's Day plate for my mom.  Although she's considered legally blind, she appreciates things like this that she can show to her friends when they come over.  You know how mom's need to do a bit of bragging.

Today, I pulled out the vinyl and the etching cream and went to work.  After playing around in design studio, I found a border that I liked well enough to etch.  I used the Cricut Joys of the Season Cartridge for the border, the Mother's Day Seasonal Cartridge  for the words and Cricut Calligraphy Collection Cartridge for the date.  I think it came out quite well.

So it started off with the vinyl looking like this:

To adding the etching cream and looking like this:

And turning it into this:

Recipe:

Vinyl

Etching Cream

Cricut Cartridge - Joys of the Season

Cricut Cartridge - Calligraphy Collection

Cricut Cartridge - Mother's Day Seasonal