It's Time to Play The 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style

Well, here we are again ready to kick off year 3 of The 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style.  It's just a fun little challenge that will help you complete your tags or cards for Christmas.  Each Monday for the next 12 weeks, I will post a Christmas tag.  If you wish to play along, you can make any sort of Christmas or winter themed DIY project.  It can be a tag, but doesn't have to be.  It can be a Christmas card, a holiday decoration, a scrapbook layout, a tree ornament, a banner, whatever you want but it does have to be inspired by my tag and must be Christmas or winter themed.  

Sound like fun?  A number of my blogger friends had a great time with this challenge last year and some have even played along for the past two years.  I hope you will play along.  Here are the challenge requirements, which must be adhered to in order to be eligible for a prize at the end. 

• This is an inspiration challenge. Each week, I will post my tag and you will use it to be inspired to make something. You can enter any sort of craft.  It can be a tag, a card, a home decor project, a scrapbook layout - your choice but please make it winter/holiday related. 
• You must take inspiration from something on my tag and tell us in your post what inspired you. You don't have to use my style, my layout, my colors, my theme or anything except be inspired by something on my sample. Your make can be shabby, it can be grungy or it can be clean and simple. I don't mind if you CASE my work, but if you do, please give me credit. 
• We will have 12 weekly challenges beginning today, Monday, September 23rd.  You can link your project using the linky provided. If you don't have a blog, you can use another hosting site such as SplitCoast Stampers, but you must provide all required links and information in your posting.
• To be eligible for the drawing at the end of the 12 weeks, you must: 1) enter all 12 challenges, 2) provide a link back to this challenge and mention that it is sponsored by my store The Funkie Junkie Boutique, with a link to the boutique. 
• You do have to have a blog (or some other way to provide the required links and inspiration information).
• All 12 challenges will remain open until December 22nd.  You can play any of the 12 challenges up through that date. To be eligible to win, you must have submitted an entry into all 12 of these challenges by midnight Eastern Time December 22nd.
• On December 23rd, from the pool of players who participated in every single challenge and provided a link to the challenge and a link to my store on their post, I will draw three winners. There will be one $50 grand prize gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie Boutique given out plus two runner up prizes of $25 gift certificates. 
• Additionally, everyone who participated in all the challenges and met the requirements will receive a 10% off coupon good for their entire order at The Funkie Junkie Boutique during the month of January 2014.  

Here is your inspiration piece for week #1.  I made it using the brand new Artistic Outpost release Christmas Chalk.  I had such a great time working with this new set from Artistic Outpost.  Here I started with a jumbo tag from my boutique and cut a piece of black card stock to fit over it.  The solid white snowflakes were made using Wendy Vecchi's white embossing paste.  I created my own snowflake stencil by cutting Tim Holtz's mask product with the mini snowflake movers and shapers dies.  The flourish is white chipboard that I spread Glossy Accents on and then sprinkled on chunky glitter.  The icicles at the top, which are white CS embossed with a TH texture fade and trimmed out, also had glitter applied in the same method.  I ran a border down the left side made with the Wendy Vecchi Art Parts Scallop Trim.  I found something out about the Art Parts.  They always feel too thick and clunky for me.  So this time, I took an exacto knife and split it down the middle.  It was so easy - it came apart very cleanly and I really like the thickness of it once it was halved.  So the border you see here is actually one piece of scallop trim, split lengthwise down the middle and the two pieces laid end to end.  I painted them black with distress paint and when dry, rubbed white craft ink over it with my finger.  I used Idea-ology Alpha Parts to spell out Let it Snow, rubbing white craft ink over them too.  Then I couldn't get the white craft ink to dry on the Alpha Parts so I ended up (don't laugh) painting it over with clear nail polish - LOL (okay, go ahead and laugh, but it worked great)!

That's it - the rest is self-explanatory, but let me know if you have questions.  And I'll be looking forward to having you play along with us this year!







These products used to make this tag are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger products are always 20% below MSRP.

25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Artistic Outpost Christmas Chalk Unmounted Rubber Stamps	Mini Snowflakes Sizzix Alterations Movers & Shaperss by Tim Holtz	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Mask Sheets	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - White
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Alpha Parts, Newsprint	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Art Parts Scallop Trim	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Christmas Background and Borders Set	Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes BIGZ Die