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GentlewoodFarms
January 28, 2021

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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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