Christmas Tag, Winter Cabin, Decorative

Another ornamental tag for Day 6 of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas Tags!

Hope you like it...

This is one of my all time favourite little dies.  It does most of the work for you!

I based my design and colour scheme around Kittie's gorgeous tag.

(See below).

She was one of the first people I started stalking in blog land!

(Love your style, Kittie). x

Supplies Used:

Dies:

Die-Versions (Sweet Petites) 'House and Trees'

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles

Memory Box 'Star of Wonder'

Punch:

Martha Stewart/Punch All Over 'Aspen Flurry'

Other:

Acetate - rescued from craft packaging (my favourite kind)

Cord 

If you are brave enough to consider gluing on to acetate, use the smallest amount of glue you can possibly get away with as it will squish everywhere and make a horrible mess.  I use Collall Tacky glue.  You can scrap this stuff off if you find you have accidental glue marks in places.  Not sure if it still scrapes off when completely dry.  Trial and error, I'm afraid.

I did marry up the dies on the back of this tag, too.  Covers up the glue marks that way :)

Thanks again for your patience in reading through my backlog of quick posts.

Have a great day...

Donna. x

Mixed Media Tag, Rustic House, Male/Female

I'm much later than I had hoped to be with getting anything finished, photographed and posted on this blog...  and I'm woefully behind on commenting again...  but truth be told I'm dealing with some stuff that's hellish right now.  I'll update the Autism section at some point soon to give more details...
All I'll say for now is it involves my daughter and in many ways we're going through a similar situation to the hell we faced five years ago.
Life can be so very unfair...

 I'm sorry to those of you I regularly stop by to say hello to.  I will try my best to catch up again...

*

I'm here today to share my DT take on Erin's tag over at Tag You're It.
Are you playing along?

I tidied up my craft area over the Christmas break so I could finally get back to something a little more 'messy' design wise.  A little bit of ink, some texture paste and my beloved dies were all that was needed for this quick and easy make...

Now normally I would get myself all 'het up' about that cloud at the bottom not being perfectly done.  But seriously, you go look up at the sky and find me a perfectly formed cloud.  

You found one...  Really???

In other words...  I can live with it.  Just this once.  And if I change my mind it will be very easy to place the stencil back over and reapply a bit of extra texture paste.

Here's Erin's tag...

I was initially stumped over what to do instead of that caravan (I have no vehicle dies or stamps) and toyed with the idea of a window, tree and cloud mini scene design...  until I had a rummage through my die cuts and found this house.  It's so basic and 'rustic' looking, but there's just something about it that I absolutely love.  And it has a door AND a window...  just like the caravan :)

Supplies Used:

Ink:
Tim Holtz Distress 'Mowed Lawn'
Tim Holtz Distress 'Stormy Sky'

Stencil:
Memory Box 'Mini Clouds'

Dies:
Quickutz 'House'
Marianne Design/Craftables 'Tiny's Pinetrees'
Marianne Design/Craftables 'Tiny's Winter Village'

Other:
Texture Paste
Brown Twine


Challenges I'm entering...

Pixie's Crafty Snippets Challenge
(All snippets)

The Sisterhood of Crafters
(Something Old, Something New).
Although the Quickutz Die is old, it's new to my die collection...

Craft Rocket Challenges
(Challenge #7 'Clean and Simple')

Have a good weekend...

Donna. x