A Christmas Gift Tag

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

I did think that making a Christmas tag would maybe help me feel a little cooler when I made it on Friday, I was 'channelling' crisp, cool snow as I was making the Tag but it didn't help, I was still sweating, despite being blasted by the fan, which is a nightmare in itself in my messy craft room, I have to make sure that everything is weighted down, otherwise I would in fact be sitting a snow storm of die cut 'bits' instead of snowflakes!  

Yesterday was a slightly cooler day, it was quite breezy, we did get a really good down pour of rain over a couple of hours on Sunday evening, it didn't do much in changing the humidity though!  The most important thing yesterday was that we got 3 loads of washing dry, "why 3 loads"  I hear you asking, especially after I had emptied laundry baskets on Friday, well there is a good answer.... Sophie tidied her room on Sunday evening!  Where 4 bath towels and 3 large hand towels appeared from in a week is a mystery in itself, especially as I did her laundry with her uniforms on Wednesday!   I just shake my head and make sure its all done, it's beneficial to get out in the sunshine while assisting Paul with the pegging out. Do your husbands peg your washing out the same way as you do????  It has taken a while but Paul has aced it now.  We go with the 'Tops by the bottom and Bottoms by the tops' rule !! 

Today's Tag was created with a Gemini 3D embossing folder, ( I embossed the tag after die cutting it) to preserve as much of that gorgeous embossing as possible!  I did cut the reinforcer for the tag in silver mirror card as well as the snowflakes as I thought it looked better.  I took my  SU Snowflake die collection and die cut a selection, the pretty snowflake swirl die was diecut in white, I then cut similar sized silver snowflakes and adhered them to it.  It's hard to see in the photo but the pearls have a lovely iridescent coating, they look like bubbles almost, I had also added some diamond pearl spritz to the white card before cutting the snowflakes. To finish the card I mixed a white satin ribbon with silver trim and sheer ribbon that has tiny iridescent sparkles all over it, as I thought that they complimented the snowflakes on the tag.  I may well make a matching card as I love how this tag turned out!  

I think that our next Challenge should involve lots of colour, so if any of you have any ideas please let me know. 

I hope that you all have a lovely day,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

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