12 Days of Christmas -- Tag #2

I managed to get my hands on some size #8 tags tonight.  I made a quick stop at the The ScrapBox on the way home from work to pick up a few supplies, not only did they included the size #8 tags, but the Retro Holiday set of stamps as well.  The last set that she had on the wall.  I just love that snowman.

Tag #1 was done with a size #6 tag which is what I had on hand at the time.  Now that I have worked with both the #6 and #8, I think I prefer the smaller size for when I am making tags for cards but #8 for layouts.

Anyway, I finished my Tag #2.  It is 1:30 in the morning.  I took a picture using a bunch of the lamps that I had and adjusting the lighting in Photoshop.  The photo is not bad but the colour is just off slightly.  It has a bit more yellow in the photo that the actually tag has.

I love the grunge frame stamp that Tim Holtz Tag #2 used but alas it is not part of my collection, yet.  so I used some architectural accent stamps that I have from Blockheads.  I used weather wood distress embossing powder to stamp the background image.  Instead of the green and read colouring, I went for weathered wood, worn lipstick and dusty concord.  The speckles are done with perfect pearl Perfect Pearls to fit into the more purple/blue/silver tone of the tag.  Faded jeans was used to accent the distressed edge of the tag.

I also was not able to get my hands on any of Tim's photo corners nor his metal flowers.  My photo corners are maded from 36 gage metal sheets that I cut into photocorners and then embossed using Ten Second Studio plates.  I ran the same metal through my Cuttlebug to cut out two 5 petal flowers that I had in one of my Spellbinder flower dies.  I then followed Tim's instructions to put the flower together.  The metal was way too shiny so I covered with some alcohol ink and distress stickles to grunge it up a bit. The six petal flower behind the rose is from Imaginesce.

Two tags down and 10 more to go...Can't wait to see the what Day 3 will be.