Blue Spruce Tag

My good friend, Loll Thompson, of Stamping with Loll is running her annual Twelve Tags of Christmas event.  Loll makes twelve different tags but also has guest designers each day. So there is a lot of wonderful inspiration!

Here's a tag I made for the event:

I love blue spruce trees so used that as the theme of my tag.  The tree is die cut from a 5 part tree die, edged with a blue highlight glitter, and decorated with small gemstones and a silver star.

The tag itself is mixed media cs.  I drizzled some masking fluid on it to keep some of it uncoloured, then sponged with Milled Lavender and Tumbled Glass Distress inks.  When dry, I rubbed off the masking fluid and stamped a text stamp in Stormy Sky Distress ink.

I attached my tree and a "joy" sentiment, die cut from the same blue cs as the tree.  The ribbon was coloured with Tumbled Glass reinker.

The Twelve Tags of Christmas linky is open until November 25 so do join in!

Supplies:

Stamps - Crafters Companion text stamp

Ink - Distress Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass, and Stormy Sky

Paper - blue cs, mixed media cs

Accessories - Elizabeth Craft Designs 5 part tree die, Tim Holtz Joy die, Dienamics tag die, Tim Holtz crinkle ribbon, silver star, tiny gemstones, masking fluid, blue highlight glitter