Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #8

Another week has rolled around and I'm back to share my Tag #8.  If you are a new visitor to my blog, I'm doing a Funkie Junkie style 12 Tags of Christmas challenge and you are warmly invited to join in the fun.  There is still plenty of time to catch up.  You just need to have all tags completed by December 15th.  You can do any type of holiday project.  Full "rules" of the challenge are in this post.

Here's my tag for your inspiration for the Tag #8 challenge.  I'm not as happy with this one as I have been with the last two.  I stamped the Santa collage onto vintage muslin and then sort of quilted it by adding some stuffing behind it and sewing around the edges.  But I think he's a bit too puffy.  I may have to re-engineer him at bit.  For a fairly simple tag, I struggled about 3 hours with it.  My craft table is littered with rejected elements that I made and tried and didn't like.  The tag was stamped with the Whimsey Classified Ads stamp - this was inspired by one of our challenge participants - Kate with her wonderful newspaper background on her tag here.  The Santa is from the retired SU set Yultide Montage.  The Dec. 25th ticket is from SU's Winter Post set.

For the flower, I cut 3 layers of vintage muslin with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and two layers of white vintage style crepe paper.  The tiny snowflakes were cut with a Cutlebug die from Very Vanilla paper.  I edged them just a bit with Vintage Photo DI and then double embossed them with UTEE to give  an enameled look.  That's pretty much the details.

Thank so much for stopping by and for your lovely comments.  I hope you will decided to play along with us on this challenge.