A LITTLE Bit of Winter

I wanted to do a few different techniques on this tag… and also a few challenges too… LOL… I love doing many things all at once…

So I started out with some white card stock… and one of my new stamps from Impression Obsession… I love the 6x6 background stamps that they have now… so I chose to use the Pine boughs… as that is good for HelsSheridan’s challenge of using pine boughs stamp… or pine boughs ink… which I also used… 

So I am back at the white card stock… and I used clear embossing with this new stamp… and then colored around it with the new Distress Ink of Pine boughs in Tim’s newest winter collection of inks… love that color… very crisp like the air is now…  Fall is over in many ways…  and winter is here…

My next piece of card stock… I used the pine bough ink on my stamp… and then quickly stamped… and then embossed with pine distress embossing powder… so it has a nice texture and also a layered look of color…  

I then merged the two prints matching them up perfectly (not that it really matters … as the print on the background is just that… a great background for you to play with…

I then dyed some seam binding with the pine bough ink pad… and added some gold (twinkling H20’s)  and a few other greens to the ribbon for color layers…  love that too… you know I do… 

I used this small piece to go between the two prints…  just as a divider but also just to divide the tag up… 

I then used a tag from Spellbinders and made the white background for this lovely poinsettia flower that I made from another Spellbinder die set… using Liquid pearls in the center of the poinsettia… 

I made the leaves by using my favorite leaf stamp that I made myself… and again layered them so that they are under the tag and also under the flower… gives a more layered look to this area…

Okay.. then I added a snowflake …. Of course I had to add a snowflake… winter is coming…  snow will start to fly all over the place…  a few little pieces of 7 Gypsies paper that was on my work table were added… and then this sweet little one with the look of winter all over her was added… 

She is for the Simon Says stamp and Show challenge…  which the theme this week is WOMEN… 

So there you have it… a winter tag…  with all kinds of winter stuff on it…  I would much prefer to be going into fall or spring… but as long as I can still make a flower I am okay with the season at hand…  as there is a season for everything in life… 

Hope you have a wonderful day… maybe join in on some of these fun challenges… and play a little while…  enjoy yourself no matter what you do… and remember life is what you make it… 

Love, Light and Peace....Bonnie