Holiday Tags

My stash of Christmas cards is in pretty good shape, so when I saw the new challenge at Just Us Girls for holiday tags I decided I’d make a couple since I have no new ones for this year. Then TypePad went down, and now I’m just getting this posted at the last minute! The old adage, “Better Late than Never” seems to fit.

The first tag was inspired by a post on Ellen Hutson’s blog for layered tags. Mine looks nothing like theirs but I did layer one tag on top of the other.

I started with a tag from Simon Says and ran it through an old embossing folder by Cuttlebug. I die cut the red tag with Pinkfresh Studio’s “Mini Tags with Fillable Words,” and die cut Cheers from it layering bright green paper behind the word. The greenery is from Pinkfresh Studio’s “Festive leaves stencil,” which comes with coloring stencils and dies.

The second tag is a monochrome one. I made my own tag this time around and stenciled Nuvo Silver Glitter Paste through the Simon Says “Falling Stars” stencil.  The trees and house were die cut with Gina K’s “Winter Wonderland” dies.

I used tiny strips of dimensional tape behind one of the trees and layered three houses together for some dimension there as well. The sentiment was silver embossed on black and is from Reverse Confetti’s “Christmas Card Greetings” that I purchased just before they closed the shop.

In addition to Just Us Girls, I’m adding the second tag to the CAS on Friday challenge which is Winter. I’m not sure if a tag is allowed at CAS on Friday, but I’ll take my chances.

I’m happy to have my blog back, but writing this post took at least twice as long as usual. Obviously, things are not quite working as they should. Hope it improves soon!