A New Challenge To Me & Guest Designing!

Today I have the great honour of being a guest designer over at the uber talented Loll Thompson's blog 'Stamping With Loll' for a challenge - mixed media tag challenge - that was new to me (and also a technique that was new to me too . . . doubly scary!)

Twelve Tags Of Christmas Challenge

Of course I was thrilled to be asked, but mixed media . . . gulp.  I told Loll that I would love to be a guest, but I wasn't even sure what constituted 'mixed media' . . . I needn't have worried because anyone who has had any dealings with Loll will know how sweet and generous and helpful she is.  She explained that I was probably making things that would already constitute 'mixed media' without even realising it!

So, I made a selection of tags to Loll's specification and sent her pictures and she told me that they all fitted and to choose my favourite.  As Loll has a liking for these colours, I chose this tag in honour of her.

 First, I made a Bokeh piece and die cut a stitched tag from it, then I stencilled stars with glitter gel all over it and whilst it was drying I die cut a few snowflakes and did the sentiments.

When all was dry, I adhered the snowflakes, putting enamel dots in the centres and popped the sentiment strips up on foam tape for dimension and finished it all off with some black, organza ribbon.

Why not join in the fun over at Loll's blog and show us your tags!

As if more incentive was needed, Loll is also generously offering prizes too!

Winner - $40 gift certificate from STAMPlorations 

Top Three - $20 gift certificate each from STAMPlorations 

Random Draw - $20 gift certificate from Happy Little Stampers 

Random Draw - One Christmas stamp set from Dee's Artsy Impressions

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Loll publicly for her faith in me, whenever I doubted myself and for being so sweet as to take a chance and give me my very first opportunity at being part of a DT . . . thank you, thank you, thank you Loll from the  bottom of my heart!

Thanks too to all of you, my lovely readers throughout this past year who have supported me and left me such sweet comments and words of encouragement!

Now, what are you waiting for . . . get tagging!  Hazel xx

Twelve Tags Of Christmas Challenge

Hello my lovelies!  Today I have something very different for you . . . a tag for the wonderful Loll of Stamping With Loll  where she has this fabulous mixed media tag challenge going on.  There are loads of guest designers with some amazingly creative tags, that you just have to go and see!

I had never attempted mixed media before, but I found it to be quite a fun thing to do!  This is one my attempts.

I made the base background by spraying some ink on to a piece of card stock and left that to dry.  When it was dry I sponged some distress inks through a stencil in a few places.  Then when that was dry I cut it out using a stitched tag die.

Next, I sponged some sparkle gel through a star stencil and also left that to dry.  Meantime, I punched some snowflakes out of glitter card and stamped the sentiment in Versamark on to some vellum and the companion part to the sentiment on to black card stock and then heat embossed both in white.

Finally, I assembled the tag, and added a piece of satin ribbon and some sparkle gems to the centres of the snowflakes and that was me done!

Why not come and join us . . . there are even prizes to be won!  As always, I appreciate you all.  have a wonderful day!  Hazel xx