Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #9

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Hello and welcome to week #9 of the 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style.  We are on the downhill slide now with only four weeks until Christmas.  I hope you are planning to play along.  You can play in any order at any time prior to December 21st.  If you link up all 12 challenges and follow all the challenge requirements found in the Week #1 post, you will be in for the drawing  - 3 gift certificates to The Funkie Junkie Boutique are going to be given away.  In addition, all participants who complete the challenge properly will receive a 10% discount coupon to The Funkie Junkie Boutique to shop in January.  We have had some amazing submissions this year - thank you so much to everyone who has played along!

I have so much fun making the tags each year and love making a variety of styles.  Last week it was homespun and this week I'm going for elegant with a gold and black color palette.  I started with one of the jumbo manila tags that I sell in the boutique.  I don't have them in black so I used black distress paint and painted it with two coats of paint, drying it with a heat tool between painting the two layers.  

Next, using the Tim Holtz Christmas stencil, I stenciled on gold Wendy Vecchi embossing paste.  The edges of the tag were dry brushed with gold acrylic paint dabber.  On a piece of vellum, I stenciled on embossing ink using the Tim Holtz Festive stencil and embossed on Queen's Gold embossing powder.    The edges were ripped and sponged with Vintage Photo DI.  When the gold embossing paste was dry, the vellum was affixed over it using Ranger Multi Medium Matte.  

I haven't used my Snowflake Rosette decorative strip die yet this holiday season and have been wanting to use it.  I wanted the embellishments to be very simple so as not to take away from the two layers of embossing.  I cut the rosette out of white CS, stamped it with the Christmas Carol stamp from Tim's Mini Holidays 3 set, sponged the edges with Vintage Photo and gave it a shot or two of Tarnished Brass Distress Spray Stain.  There are two layers of seals, the bottom one was gold embossed with Queen's Gold EP.  The top one was cut with the Stacked Snowflake die from acrylic packaging and sprayed with Brushed Pewter Distress Spray Stain. I topped it off with a small gumdrop from my shop, which is a bit smaller than the Tim Holtz gumdrops.

The sentiment was made with a stamp from Mini Holidays 5, stamped with embossing ink and embossed with Queen's Gold.  I used selected areas from the Festive Stencil, stenciled on embossing ink and embossed with Queen's Gold.   The panel was cut with the new Labels Thinlits dies.

I dyed the shabby seam binding by scribbling a bit of Tarnished Brass distress stain on my craft sheet and dabbing it in it.

That's it for Tag #9.  Thank you so much for coming by to check to out.  I hope you will be able to play along this week!  Please be sure to link up all your projects by December 21st.









The products below were used to make the above project.  They are available at The Funie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger, Wendy Vecchi and most other name brand products are always 20% below MSRP.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Paint - Black Soot	Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste - Gold	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencils - Christmas
Ranger Embossing Powder - Queen′s Gold	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Ink Reinker	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams
Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Snowflake Rosette Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Mini Holidays 3	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Mini Holidays 5	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Labels
Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Metallic Gold	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Tarnished Brass	Tim Holtz Ranger Metallic Distress Stain - Tarnished Brass	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 4 oz.	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Stacked Snowflakes Bigz L Die
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Brushed Pewter	1/2" Gumdrops - 10 Piece White Acrylic Embellishments

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