Friday, January 7, 2011

Last of my Tim tags...Day 11 and Day 12

I finally finished my Tim tags.
For day 11... For the background paper that I covered my tag with was from an early 1950's Woman's Day magazine. I inked up the right side of the tag. I didn't have the tree die, and so I had to draw and cut out a tree. I used white enamel accents to the tree branches for snow.
Again, I didn't have the snow flurries die. So, I just stamped a row of big snowflakes in blue ink down the left side of the tag. I rubber stamped Season's greetings as my saying to put behind the ornate bookplate. I added a piece of twine to the trunk of the tree, and placed a red gem on the top of the tree with a star hanging from my tags ribbon. My take on Day 11.
Day 11 tag
My Day 12 tag:
I used scrapbook paper from Tim's seasonal pack to make my tag. With my Cricut I cut out the 2 layered green and red ornament with the word Joy. To make the hanger for the ornament I twisted thin red wire.  I inked an old small December calendar page that I happened to have on hand. Every year I get a few of the little calendars at a local restaurant and they come in handy on art projects during the year.  I was glad to find I had kept an old calendar. I then added the metal corner brackets, some greens and fake berries. Also a  small red bow and red ribbon.
Day12 tag
I am glad I finally finished my tags. Just sorry that I didn't have the time to follow along each day when Tim was posting his tags before Christmas. I didn't have a lot of the products Tim used, but it was fun seeing what I could find that I had on hand to make my tags.
Day 1-12 tags Day1-12 2nd
More of the tag posts are in the December archives.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Beautiful tags.... I love them

Susan said...

Congrats on finishing all the tags! You did a great job, especially improvising!
Susan

Kerry said...

Elaine, can't remember if I left a comment before -- but I am now. Your tags are wonderful - I think they look perfect and congrats on achieving your goal. Thanks for sharing with us. Kerry

Tammy D said...

Wow those are definitely my favorites.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful Elaine, all of them. I think I still like "Joy" and the poinsettia the most. Did I miss seeing somewhere what you will do with these? I mean, they are gift tags, but they are also works of art, and it seems they could be the gifts themselves!

Elaine Akers said...

I just want to thank everyone for the super nice comments you all left for my Tim tags. I had so much fun creating them. Glad you enjoyed them too. I'm not sure what I will do with the tags, but maybe they will be hung on my tree next year.
Elaine

Diann said...

You did a fantastic job with all your TIM tags, Elaine. They would be wonderful on your tree next year or as tags on your gifts! Diann

Michele Kovack said...

I so enjoyed looking at all of your tags! Wonderful job!