I love reading how your tags come to be, it in my mind, justifies why I save all these bits and pieces of things thinking I will use them at some point on a card tag or layout. Still this reminds me how and where i can use images from gorgeous cards I receive!! Just beautiful!
Sure you don't like making decisions - how many challenges are you running! This is an absolute stunner. So effective, the colours, the concept and even though you say simple I say psssssht! This is brilliant. Anyone would love to be the recipient of this beautiful tag. Don't say only one or two or three or four, you are too clever to waste such talent! Wish my tags looked half as good as this!
Way back in 2007 when Tim Holtz started the 12 tags of Christmas, I followed along and tried to keep up. Little did I know back then that creating Christmas tags would become a personal tradition for me.
It took me a long time to finish those original 60 tags that Tim used to teach us all sorts of cool techniques, but I was committed to finishing them. I hung them on a Christmas garland in my entry hallway that first year, and every year since. I finished the first 60 and have been gradually expanding my garland to the whopping 108 that it displayed Christmas of 2020.
I loaned my garland to my mother a few Christmases back - the year we went to San Diego for Christmas - and her Sunday School Class had a fit over it and wanted me to teach them how to do them. That was a lot of fun, teaching a group of little old ladies (I say that with the UPMOST respect) how to be artsy-craftsy. They had fun, I had fun, and I put 24 tags on my garland that year, because in addition to the one that I taught them how to do, I created a second tag each month as a thank-you gift to them for playing with me.
My friend Tammy, who works with me at the library, saw one that I had done on a gift this past Christmas and wanted to learn how to make them, so I've helped her make three this past month. That's been fun.
So I don't really have a plan for how many get added in a year, I just kind of let them happen as my life allows and my creative mojo niggles my brain. I don't work at them very hard, but I keep a Sterilite storage box on my desk full of bits and pieces that may or may not become tags so that I can work on one when the mood hits.
Every so often I wander through the box and put tag kit ideas together into ziplock bags to see if I can't create something later. I've been doing that for the past two or three days, and I guess now it's later ...
The little bird was on a Christmas card we got last year, and I loved him so much that I kept the card front and fussy cut him out. The wood flourishes - they're pretty old and two in the package were broken, so I used them here, putting a little ink on them with a paint brush. The little bow is a pattern cut from a ephemera pack - the original had one of its tails missing, so I just used the original as a pattern and cut this one from a piece of scrap paper. The greenery - that's something I prepped up for some project somewhere and ended up not using, so it went into the box of bits and pieces and ended up here. The sentiment - that's from a package of ephemera that I picked up at Tuesday Morning for $1. The tag base was one I created a long LONG time ago, just playing with paint, crackle finish, and an embossing folder.
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