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Day 6 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make six tags this year.

Day 6’s inspiration is Day 23, 2016.

For my take on the wreath tag, I used some die sets kindly sent to me by Penny Black – the Jumbo Bauble set (51-743), part of the big holly stem in the Holly-Days set (51-741), and sprigs from Stocking Stuffers (51-747) and Joy of Giving (51-748). The sentiment is from the Merry Edger set (51-745).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 5 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make six tags this year.

Day 5’s inspiration is Day 17, 2018. Click here to see the tag I made then!

I had so much fun with this tag! I chose a circle die from Simon Says Stamp and images by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 3 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make 6 tags this year.

Day 3’s inspiration is Day 14, 2012.

For my tag, I used a tag die by Marianne Designs plus a Sleigh die by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 2 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately, I only had time to make 6 tags this year.

Day 2’s inspiration is Day 20, 2017. Here’s what I made five years ago.

I used dies from Penny Black’s Stocking Stuffers set (51-747). The stocking is cut from some old paper from my patterned paper mountain and I used stiffened felt for the trim. The tag base is from the Tagged set (51-007).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 1 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

Back in 2017, I discovered Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags and played along every year since then. Last year, she decided to stop hosting the challenge but as there’s 10 years of tag inspiration on her site, I decided to create my own event! So, I decided to create my own event and have decided to do that again this year! In November, I randomly selected 25 days from Tracey’s event blog posts from 2011 to 2020 and will be using those tags as my own inspiration! Unfortunately, life got super busy for me in the autumn so I wasn’t able to make 25 tags this year…. I only managed 6 which I will be sharing over my next few posts.

So for Day 1, the inspiration comes from Day 12, 2019. This is what I came up with in 2019.

I heat embossed some snowflakes on my kraft tag and added a Sizzix deer die cut. I covered his antlers in glitter and added a few pearls plus a stamped sentiment!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Copper snow

Happy Monday everyone!

I had a couple of hours free this evening so I finally got round to joining a couple of challenges again! I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using the unusual colour combo from this week’s Color Throwdown challenge.

I knew I wanted to use a copper and black background and originally planned to stencil some copper paste onto my card base. As time was not on my side, I decided that using a background die may be quicker – and it was! I chose an older background die by Hero Arts which I stuck onto some copper cardstock. I decided to use the Antique Pine Label die by Memory box as my focal image which I coloured with bundled sage distress ink. The green looks so light in the photos, but it’s darker in real life! Sometimes I find taking the photos so stressful!

Anyway, to complete my card, I stamped a Clearly Besotted sentiment onto some kraft card and added a few kraft snowflakes and dots.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.