Christmas Carolers and Candycane Stripes 12 Tags

Hi sweet friends!  I'm back today with a couple more tags made for the Funkie Junkie's 12 Tags of Christmas challenge.  These tags are so very Christmas with the traditional colors and imagery and I'm loving it!  I absolutely loved Linda's Tag 3.  I was inspired by everything she did, particularly the candycane stripe and crepe fringe.

I decided to do a partial stenciling of the candycane.  I taped my stencil onto half of my tag, then tapped with my Versamark pad and embossed with red EP.

I was happy to use some of Tim's new glitter tape to cover the seam.

I embossed the open side of my tag with the Tim Holtz Tiny Dots EF.  Since it didn't go all the way down, I used the new Christmas Quote Chip to cover the bottom half and mixed the text with a Metallic Holiday Small Talk sentiment to complete the phrase.

I carefully crinkled the crepe fringe and glued it to the bottom.  The snowflake was die cut from glitterstock and glued to a second cut from watercolor paper to make a hefty embellishment.  I added some twine and a tiny bell for my topper.

I truly love the bright crispness of this tag and all of the fun elements put together.  

Tag 4 was the tag that was hardest for me.  I was so happy to have the Victorian Carolers die, but I couldn't decide on a background.  I really wanted to bring green into my tag color mix...  In the end (after making three inky backgrounds that didn't work out...) I opted for Tim's holiday paper from 2016.  I just love the plaid!  Once I decided on that, the rest worked out easily.

I stamped this very old, but oh so wonderful hymn stamp onto inky paper and curled the distressed edges.  I cut my carolers from chipboard and sanded the edges.

I embossed the wish die in red and made a second cut from black for a shadow.  I used one of my failed backgrounds to cut the greenery.  I cut a tag from the paper pad and stamped a postage stamp onto it and tucked it beneath my layers.  I added a green bow to get my fix and some twine holding a Christmas Typepad Token charm.

I've told you before, but playing along with this challenges is one of my favorite things to do to get in the Christmas spirit.  I hope you'll play along and be in the run for one $50 grand prize gift certificate or two runner up prizes of $25 gift certificates to The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  There you will find these and other incredible Christmas craft products to set your spirits bright!

View all of my 12 Tags of Christmas HERE.

Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Peppermint	(LATE SEPTEMBER PRE - ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Bells	VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad	(February Pre-order) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Butterfly Design Tape
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Metallic Stickers Holiday Talk TH93347	(LATE SEPTEMBER PRE - ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Quote Chips	( LATE SEPTMEBER PRE - ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fringe Christmas	Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Victorian Carolers Bigz Die
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Sizzix Holiday Greens Die Leaves	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 3PK - Vintage Tidings by Tim Holtz
Tim Holtz Ideaology Mini Stash Tidings	(LATE SEPTEMBER PRE-ORDER )Tim Holtz Idea-ology Typed Tokens, Christmas	Prima Art Basics - Heavy Gesso - Black 17 fl. oz. (March Pre-Order)

I'm sharing with:

The Funkie Junkie 12 Tags of Christmas

Crafty Sentiments: Winter

Dies R Us: Snow

Cards und More: Anything With Red

Ike's World Challenges: Let it Snow

The Holly and Ivy Challenge: Anything Christmas Goes

Crafty Cardmakers: Anything But a Card