Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas - Funkie Junkie Style - Week #4

Hello friends and visitors.  This week it's week #4 for the 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style.  Again this week, I'm having fun with foil.  I know foiling has been around the paper crafting world for a couple of years now, but I never used it much.  All of a sudden, I can't get enough of it - LOL.  Especially gold for the holidays although I'm thinking I will give silver a run too.  

For this tag, I started, as I always do, with a jumbo manila tag that we sell at The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  I cut out the corner element using the new Tim Holtz Mixed Media Christmas Thinlits die and then gave it two coats of white gesso.   I used a coarse paintbrush to apply it because I like the vertical brush strokes to show.  Then, using a small piece of white CS, I applied the Christmas red deco sheet to it so it would show through the die cut pattern.  When I did the die cut, I saved the tiny holly leaves, colored them green and then applied green Stickles.  When dry, it was like putting a jig saw puzzle together - I had to figure out which holly leaves went where.  The new Christmas Tidings Design Tape was used to create a pretty top for the tag.  

BTW, I always cut a similar sized piece of chipboard and glue my tag to the chipboard.  It keeps it stiff,  not allowing it to curl as one-layer paper craft projects are likely to do.  I also add a chipboard easel to the back so it will be self-standing.  I use the old Tim Holtz Small Easel die to cut the easel.  

Next, using the Poinsettia Mini Layering Stencil (from Set 19), I stenciled on the poinsettias.  I used Wendy Vecchi's Red Geranium ink for the stenciling, after covering up all the holly on the stencil with removable tape.  That's a fiddly job but I didn't want the holly leaves stenciled in red.  The Red Geranium was too red to match the deco sheet so I toned it down a bit by stenciling over it with Wendy Vecchi's Watering Can gray.  

Then I went for the foil.  This time to adhere it, I used a glue stick, just running it lightly down the edges and then applying the foil.  I love the spotty coverage that gives.  Looking at my tag at that point, I felt I had too much white space above the large poinsettia so I dug out my old Tim Holtz Flourish stamp and added a foil flourish using Sticky Embossing Powder to adhere the foil.

Now it was time to create my crinoline poinsettias.  I used two dies, the Mini Poinsettia Movers and Shapers and the Tattered Poinsettia Bigz die for the smaller top ones and the two smallest poinsettia die cuts from the Bigz die for the bottom one.  They were colored with Barn Door and Cracked Pistachio distress stains, crunched up in a ball and dried with my heat tool.  After adhering the layers together, I used a good sized dot of Multi Medium Matte in the center of each one and while wet, poured gold micro beads on them

Finally, I created the sentiment stamping it on white CS with Jet Black archival using the Labels Thinlits die set.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Mini Holidays 5 set (one of my favorite Christmas sentiment stamps).  I sponged on Barn Door distress ink and then edged it with Vintage Photo, doing a little spritz and flick for the background.  I went around the edges with the mini glue stick and applied gold foil.

That's it for Tag #4.  I hope you can find something here to inspire you to make a holiday project.  If you do, you are invited to play along in this challenge.  All the rules can be found in the Week #1 post about the challenge.

Thank you so much to everyone who has stopped by and especially to those who have left comments and the wonderful friends who have already entered the challenge.  It's so exciting to me to see the entries coming in!


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The items below were used to make this tag.  They are available at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Wendy Vecchi and most other name brand products are always 20% below list.

50 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	25 Jumbo Manila Shipping Tags 8x4" #12	Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 3PK - Mixed Media Christmas by Tim Holtz	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Deco Sheets Holiday
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Design Tape, Tidings	Sizzix BIGZ Alterations Tim Holtz Small Easel Die	Tim Holtz Mini Cardinal and Poinsettia Sizzix Alterations Movers and Shapers Dies	Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia BIGz Die	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Layering Stencils - Set 19
Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Red Geranium	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival Ink - Watering Can	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool - With 4 Blending Foams	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Ink Blending Tool Replacement Foam	Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain - Barn Door
Ranger Tim Holtz Cracked Pistachio Distress Stain	Ranger Multi Medium Matte 1/2 oz.	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Pad #3	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black Reinker	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Mini Holidays 5
Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Inkssentials Mini Collage Glue Stick
Ranger Shiny Foil Transfer Sheets - Brights	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Thinlits Dies - Labels

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