On the run up to each Christmas, I usually take part in Karen Telfer's Christmas Tag challenge. Because we were living in the caravan and I didn't have my craft supplies, I wasn't able to take part in 2024. Now my craft room is set up, I thought I had better get cracking on the tags. For 2024, Karen was doing 12 tags rather than 24 as she had a busy work schedule.
This is the last tag of the 2024 challenge. I'm feeling bereft already, but Karen has assured me there will be another set of Christmas tags for 2025. So not too long to wait. This is my Day 12 tag (you can view Karen's tutorial here). Today the tag is all about "favourites".
For my tag, as stencil play is one of my favourite techniques, I used greens and yellow Distress Oxide Inks, spritzed with water, lay a stencil on to the ink then put the wet inky side of the stencil down on to a blank tag, which achieved the light coloured background pattern.
I used Versafine Clair "Rain Forest" dark green ink to stamp the wreath and sentiment, which are both part of the Papertrey Ink stamp set called "Wreath For All Season". I have had this stamp set for many years and it is definitely one of my favourites. I used Versafine Clair "Strawberry" red ink to stamp the berries.
I used a metallic gold gel pen to add dots across the surface of the tag and to draw lines on the edge of the tag too.
Here's a photo of all 12 tags I've made from this series.
