A Christmas Ornament

Ever since the Wonder of Christmas set was released in October I have wanted to create an ornament with the beautiful double skate image. Of course, I had to create a vintage tag to present it to the recipient. I had so much fun with this project!

 

To create the ornament, I stamped the image with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink and cut with the coordinating die. I also die cut three more skate images from white cardstock. I got out my prima watercolors to color the image(#'s 24, 86, 93, 125, and 128). Once dry, I glued the multiple layers together with Bearly Art Precision Craft Glue, punched a hole in the top and created a hanger with gold cord.

I pulled a kraft tag from my stash of freebies from crafty orders over the years. I knew I was saving them for a reason. I began by placing the vintage doily stencil over the top and inking with antique linen distress ink. It is faint, but adds just the right amount of texture to the base. Then, I inked up the script background with vintage photo distress ink and placed my tag on top of it and pressed down. Next, I added more layers with the going postal set using walnut stain distress and real red inks. 

To finish it off, I added some gold cord and red ribbon to the top and attached the ornament to the front with three glue dots. I affixed the ornament cord to the back with some vintage style washi tape. I think the tag is a pretty way to present the ornament. 

Wonder of Christmas

Script Background 

Going Postal

 Vintage Doily Stencil

 

This post linked to:

 Die Cut Divas: Winter/Christmas

 

I hope you enjoyed today's project and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

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Christmas Tags

Happy Saturday! I have some quick and easy tags to share with you today featuring the recently released Wonder of Christmas set. This set can be bought individually or in a bundle with the coordinating dies.

For my first set of tags, I started by stamping the sentiments and berries with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. Then, I stamped the pine boughs with parsley ink and colored the berries with a red marker. Next, I distress the the tag with vintage photo and some walnut stain distress ink. I also dragged the edges of the tags directly along the ink pad to darken them up. Of course, no tag is complete without some ribbon so I added a gold ribbon and some gold cord to finish it off. 

My second set of tags follows the same process as the first set. I changed out how I decorated around the sentiments. The pine bough is stamped with parsley ink in two different directions to make it look like a longer piece. I stamped the pinecone on scrape cardstock first and cut out to create a mask. Then, I stamped the first pinecone with walnut stain distress ink, placed the mask over the first one and stamped the second one. I added red berries with a marker. On one of the tags you can see some sparkle because I used a red glitter gel pen over the top of the red ink. I wasn't sure I liked the tag with the sparkle so I skipped it on the others. The tags were finished up the same way as the first set. 

Wonder of Christmas Bundle

 

This post linked to:

Krafty Chicks Challenge: Stamp Act 

Dare 2B Artzy: Tags/Bookmarks

The Funkie Junkie: Yuletide Delights 

Die Cut Divas: Winter/Christmas 

 

I hope you enjoyed today's project and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

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