Karen Telfer's "12 Days of Christmas Tags 2025" - Day 8

I'm up to date and here is my Day 8 tag for Karen Telfer's "12 Days of Christmas Tags - 2025" series.  If you would like to play along too, you can find Karen's tutorial here.

Here's a top tip when smooshing ink.  Instead of wiping away the surplus ink at each stage of smoothing the tag through the ink, I give the ink a light spritz of water and then pull the tag through the ink.  You end up with a lighter version of the original background (like above).  Two for the price of one has to good, right?

For the background of my tag, I used three shades of Distress Oxide Inks, using Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass and Cracked Pistachio.  

Top Tip Two:  Before each stage of stamping, I dusted the surface of the tag with an anti static chalk bag.  This stops the embossing powder sticking where you don't want it.

I stamped the Lavinia Stamps "Noel" which is part of their "Seasonal Words" stamp set in Versafine Clair "Bali Blue" ink, coated in Wow! Clear embossing powder and heat set.

I used a Wow! Clear Embossing Pad to stamp the Lavinia Stamps "Fairy Webs" at the top and bottom of tag, coating with Wow! Bright White super fine embossing powder and heat set.

I then repeated the process with the snowflakes, using two Lavinia Stamps sets:  Snowflakes and Snowflakes small.  Finally, I aded some pale blue sticky gems to the snowflake area around the "Noel" word.