Wednesday, December 8, 2010

12 Tags of Christmas Day 8

I'm caught up!!!  I just love this blogging community of ours.  I was truly stumped on this one.  Then I started blurfing and found many creative suggestions, including the method I eventually used.  Several people suggested using clipart as a model for a homemade stencil.  I could find a Santa and sleigh, I could find a reindeer, but nothing with the two together that really worked.  Finally, I used two separate images, played around in Paintshop and, using Tim's as a guide, came up with something pretty close.  I used a very specialized material for my mask - printer paper - which worked lots better than I expected, LOL!  You'll see I did get some white "shadow" around the antlers, but I'm okay with that.  The houses I free-handed on some corrugated paper from some lightbulb packaging.  I had the Dymo, a watch front, the spinners.  I added a little rusty jingle bell to the ribbon (hard to see, since I photographed this at night - I wanted to get it done!!!).  The corners are silver embossed using  a stamp from Elusive Images.

And for those of you who were wondering what on earth I was going on about with the tissue box.... it was this.  I thought I might use this silhouette image, since I love ice skating.  However, I realized the design would have been too intricate, and I would have lost the skating effect.  Cool little scene though, isn't it, LOL?!?
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13 comments:

  1. LilaDecember 8, 2010 at 9:13 PM

    I love your tag

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  2. NettyDecember 8, 2010 at 9:34 PM

    Wow how clever are you, brilliant improvisation Jean. I love your little houses and the white round the image makes it stand out. Is there no end to your talents.....no I think not as love that tissue box pot, such a great winters scene. Just finished No 6 and waiting for the glu to dry.
    Annette x

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  3. donnaDecember 8, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    You have the Dymo? I envy you. What a wonderful tag you created for day 8. I love your Santa and houses. Yes the skaters are very cool.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 8, 2010 at 10:41 PM

    Looks great and your Santa is perfect!

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  5. Louise (KardKrazy)December 9, 2010 at 1:43 AM

    A great idea to use clipart as the mask! And I love your little corrugated houses. Very innovative substitutions:)

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  6. DanieleDecember 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM

    lovin' this tag jean, esp. the houses
    hugs

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  7. The Dolphin InnDecember 9, 2010 at 6:13 AM

    Your tag turned out beautiful, I used printer paper for my mask too although didnt do the sleigh in the end, love the little tissue box - xxx

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  8. MinxyDecember 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM

    Just delightful, i like the houses in white, very christmasy

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  9. Suzanne CDecember 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM

    Beautiful! Love your birch log cabins! Lovely take on the tag.

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  10. UnknownDecember 9, 2010 at 7:45 PM

    Just been looking at all your catching up tags very good and mprovised really well. I am also playing catch up. I have made up to tag 7 just need to photograph and post lol oh and thanks for your visits to my blog always nice to see you hun

    Love Dawn xx

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  11. FlissDecember 10, 2010 at 4:57 PM

    I'm astounded at how you made your mask. It worked brilliantly and I'd never have known if you hadn't said.
    Just love this!
    xx

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  12. Lynn StevensDecember 11, 2010 at 12:30 AM

    I never would have guessed you didn't use his stencil! bravo!!!

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  13. 2amscrapperDecember 13, 2010 at 12:03 AM

    Yes, cool little scene. Love your little houses on this tag. Helene

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