One more down and only one to go....

Second last tag and I am almost done.  I am not as happy with this one.  I screwed up and I am not sure if I want to redo the background tag or not.  I was trying to stay close to Tim's Tag as possible but since I did not have any white rubons, I decided to use my Signo white pen and just write in "Merry Christmas".  Well, the Signo pen was flowing fine on my test paper but as soon as I started on the Tag...Ughhh...it made a mess.  This is the first time I have had trouble with my white pen so I am not very pleased.

I am still trying to decide how bad of a mess it is or if I am just being anal.  The other thing is that I should have written it on before I put the reindeer on so that the text was straighter and didn't "go around" the reindeer.

Any way, it is done and I will leave it aside for the rest of the day.  Tonight I will take another look at it with fresh eyes and make my decision.

One of the other supplies that I did not have this time around was the iTop brad maker.  I wasn't really interested in this tool.  If you are a sewer, you probably made covered buttons; that is basically what the iTop does but as a brad instead.  I just couldn't bring myself to buy this tool with the associate punches.  I have tons of button tops left over from my sewing days so I just decided to used those on the tag.  The ones I have don't require any special tools and they snap together using your fingers.  I also dug through my stash of craft fabric and found some really nice Christmas fabric to use on the buttons instead of using the adhesive canvas.

For the flowers, I used some fabric Imaginesce flowers that I had instead of the paper Primas.  I need to replenish my stock of white Prima flowers.  I go through them fairly quickly since they are so versatile.

I just have one more tag to complete.  I am on the hunt for a 6 petal flower template I can download and trace.  All of my flower dies are either 5, 7 or more petal dies and will not work for the roses on Tag #12.  Hopefully I will have more luck than I did searching for the film strip clip art.

Happy Sunday everyone.   I am heading off with my kiddos this afternoon to get a Christmas Tree.  That should be lots of fun.  I usually go by myself since the kiddos never seem to be all the interested in accompanying me but they are getting older and are at that perfect "Santa & Christmas" stage.