The Funkie Junkie 12 Tags of Christmas 2012

 Hi everyone, hope you're having a lovely Sunday and here in the south east of England the weather is nice and sunny!

Last year I joined in with Tim Holtz 12 tags of Christmas, managed to get them all done BEFORE Christmas :-) for once and used them all on my Christmas presents which is a big success. I wanted to do it again this year but of course TH has changed the format of the 12 tags this year and was thinking about how I would do it when found out that Linda, the funkie junkie from the Funkie Junkie Boutique is sponsoring her own twelve tags of Christmas. The challenges started in September and run until 17th December with lovely prizes to be won for entering a tag for all the weeks. I'm on a major catch up with them but have managed to make seven so far which I'll be sharing over the next week or two.

For this first tag I was inspired to use TH's marbling technique that Linda used for her background as I didn't have great success with this previously. It came out better this time and changed my colours to blue tones with rust coloured accents from the rusty metal heart, the ribbon that I dyed to match with distress stains and the TH ideology washers and brads. Inspired from Linda's as well as the background and the heart I went with stars and the numbers which I covered in silver stickles, wings cut with a Magnolia DooHickey wing die from fabric and the glittered background stamping where I used a large TH flourish stamp, heat and bond powder and Stampendous glitter.

So my tag is similar but different to Linda's and I love all the sparkle and knew who's present this would go on before it was finished :).

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.