#12 12 Days Of Christmas Tags... the last one...

Tag #12... of the 12 Days of Christmas

Oh.... I so don't want this to stop...

but Christmas is almost here...

not many days left...

are you ready???

 

Sunday is Solstice and

the shortest day of the year...

a day when we celebrate the light

and the dark of the day...

so on Monday the 22nd of December

we will be celebrating again

 

the return of the longer days..

and summer will in 6 months in full bloom.

Wow..

Time does fly when you are having FUN.

 

So

here is my last tag...

or my 12th DAY....

 

These last 11 days and this project have all been created for the Funkie Junkie's

12 Days of Christmas Challenge...

and for that challenge Linda has created a tag, 

which is absolutely WONDERFUL... 

of a window, wreath and peeking inside the warm and toasty home,

Oh what fun... 

so... 

My Inspiration...
from Linda's Tag is

The WREATH, The Window,

and the POINSETTIAS!!!! 

I had to go with a feeling that I had from the first tag I created, that I wanted to make a Poinsettia wreath... 

Finally I would be able to do that with this beautiful tag of Linda's....

I knew it would be a certain way... 

and it came out just the way I wanted it... 

 

So here it is...     

 

 

This is my little scene...

This is not large..

The wreath is only 4 inches in Diameter ...

The deer, it is about 3 inches...

but more on the deer later..

The little tree about 3 inches...

SMALL little scene.  and PINK... 

 

 

 

I will write about things as I go along..

and hopefully make this as short as possible... 

 

 

 

I received my Christmas trees, and they were squashed...

so I had to use a few of them in different ways..

One way, was to cut off the squashed section,

and put it into a box...

Voila'

so I made a 1.5 inch little box, and colored it...

and put my tree in it...

and then decorated it...

lots of liquid pearls,

and distress essences... 

had fun...

wet and gooey but okay..

it will dry...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I cut out 12 deer using chip board.

and glued them all together...

to create my deer...

I then embossed it with Adirondack Mushroom

and then attached the rusted star...

it is real metal... rusted... love it... 

 

Looking down on the scene 

 

Okay... my wreath...

Oh how much fun I had making this delightful

little wreath...

Thank You so very much Linda, for making a wreath the last challenge...

Oh... I totally enjoyed making this...

holding it,

moving it around to see it in all different lights...

it is really soft and sweet in all ways...

 

I used a circle frame, from the dollar store package of paper mache frames...  nothing special other than it was a circle, stronger than what I could make, and also colored GREEN... which I put on the back...

 

Okay.. now to decorate this..

Stamper Sunday Challenge...

create using a book theme...

a page of a book etc...

so the bottom layer on this wreath...

a row of poinsettias cut from book pages...

and then colored a very pale green...

Love the softness of that...

 

Then I started to make the poinsettias..

I used the Sizzix die cut of Poinsettias

 by Tim and used only the small flower...

 

This is also going into the Challenge over at Eileen Hull's

Sizzix Art with Heart... 

 

So my poinsettias were cut out of many different things...

coffee filters that were colored pale pink,

baby wipes that were pink, pale pickled raspberry, white, and even a few that had yellows, greens and browns on them...

each one very carefully chosen and then cut out...

then made into a small poinsettia...

with a JINGLE BELL in the center of it..

Carefully glued in place, along with some mistletoe berries, a little twig and of course some rock candy goo...  love that stuff...

I think I used three bottles on this project...

what do you think...???

I think I love the stuff..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My little sled.. started out like any wooden object that we get our hands onto... it was once a light tan wood...

now it weighs four times what it did...

and it has a fence glued to it... and a bunch of sticks for firewood,

and of course tons of glitter, glitter glues, rock candy and you name it... 

All ready for the wreath to be laid onto it...

I didn't glue it down,

as I think about putting it away at the end of winter...

and want the wreath to be pretty next year too...

 

 

On clear little pebbles

 

 

Hanging on black board. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yes... each flower also got some rock candy,

and some other goodies... LOL... what fun I had

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My finished project...

 

 

It is going in a very special place... and will be shown on the glass with the clear little pebbles...

I love it...

hope that you enjoy it as much as I am going to... 

I wanted a delicate wreath... and I got it...

I might even put this with my little white village...

You never know...

 

 

 

 

Remember the other day... I made my tag box???

Well here it is with my tags all in it...

 

 

 

 

The Christmas side of the box... 

 

The angelic side of the box...

my favorite actually...

 

It is sitting right here in front of me...

and as I type I am loving it more and more...

It will go into our den soon...

but for now...

it is sitting here being admired... 

Please make sure you go to the FUNKIE JUNKIE

and see all the wonderful work of all that are creating these

12 days of Christmas Tags,

and also go and view the

 FUNKIE JUNKIE BOUTIQUE….

Lots of fun there too… wow…

you name it…

It is a wonderland all unto it’s self…

I have finished all 12 tags, and hope that you have seen them all... and enjoy each and every part of each tag...
they were made with lots of love so that it would vibrate out to you during this season of LOVE...
I drew this yesterday for you to enjoy too...

Thanks again for all the love you all have given to me in comments and personal letters... I truly appreciate them all...
Hope you have the best ever holiday, and enjoy your family, friends and community around you...


Love to all of you.
Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

Monday, Monday.... oh what a day!!!

Today being Monday, is generally very busy around here... not much different.... but there is a lot of  difference also... 

 

This morning I looked at Our Creative Corner, to see who the winner was of this past months Challenge... and I WAS....

Not only for the month of October... but this was the third time I have won this challenge... so I got the Gold Metal of Honor...  WOW... 

I am very honored and also very happy about this... 

Great Fun...

So now I have to think about what to do as Guest designer..????

Oh something will pop up in my brain...

hopefully anyway.

 

Okay... Then I had a challenge that I love to do...

Sunday Stamper...

Hels didn't have her brain in gear yesterday,

as was also teaching a class...

and so it wasn't released until late...

so I played with it this morning...

and this is what I came up with...

 

 

Introducing the Angel of Poinsettias...

She is gloriously happy and is just so very pretty...

 

Do you recognize her???

She is TH angel

and I cut off the skirt she comes with...

 and added poinsettias

from my own design and also TH mini set of poinsettia... 

And made her a NEW SKIRT.. 

Added some glitter,

and also a few leaves...

And she is beautiful...

 

 

She is an Angel of the Light...

and represents Solstice

as she has wings...

but also had a huge snowflake

on her back too...

 

The Challenge this week at Sunday Stamper is to use WINGS...

of anykind...  so I used Angel wings...

 

 

The tag she is on, is in lavenders, pale blues, and white with silver high lights... 

but then it is mounted on a tag of plums, wine, and Pickled Raspberry.... that was embossed and accented with the PR...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted something fluffy on the bottom,

so I tied a piece of tulle on the tags... and added some plum colored ribbon, and then a little glittery snowflake... 

I just had to finish this tag off like that as I wanted it to be

bright...

and airy

 and light...

and I think I did just that...

 

So that is my WINGS tag Hels...

and as usual I totally enjoyed the Challenge...

and never worry about being late...

your audience is always here to pick up whenever...

 

Thank You for stopping in for a visit today...

and hope that you have a wonderfully creative day also...

you can always join in on this challenge...

it is always fun... and there is a nice group of creative people that also join in...

 

Thanks to all of you...

And since next week is Solstice,

Please enjoy ...

Peace...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

 

 

 

 

Poinsettias of PEACE

Well FINALLY I got some time to PLAY...  it has been rather hectic around here for the past couple of months... but I think we are starting to get back to normal little by little... 

 

LOL...

 

(can anyone really tell me what

NORMAL is in all reality??? )

 

Okay... so I played and

the INSPIRATION

was Hels Sheridan's

Sunday Stamper... 
and also
Simon Monday Challenge 

 

I wanted to do a little Christmas thingy... 

and so I did... 

 

It has a very earthy theme to it though... 

 

The White stands for the angelic forces

around us at all times in our daily lives... 

 

The Green is for the love and energy that we live from....

the plants give us the oxygen we need to

breathe and live,

and also the good veggies

that we ingest...   The living earth mother ...

 

The Brown background is

multi colored browns and

also GOLD

for the richness of our soils

that give us the life we are living... 

 

The BLUE is the Sky connection... 

The heaven above us... 

 

PEACE is alive with the glitter to bring 

attention to the fact we are all one, 

and we need to start to live as one... 

loving each other in all ways.... 

 

A little intense???

Life is so beautiful in all ways,

and we need to give thanks all the time,

every day to the GLORY of it... 

So I wanted to share with you this feeling... 

 

I hope you are having a wonderful day

and that each day gets to be a little bit better... 

THINK LOVE. 

 

So here is my tag...

 

 

I am not sure that you can actually see the background...

but I did have fun making it...

and Hels, I was INKY plus...

finally I took some really wet gold

and splattered it all over the background... 

What fun it was...

Clean up was not fun...

but a necessary chore after having FUN...   

 

The centers of the poinsettias

I used Pink Blush liquid pearls,

and then poured some Glossy accents into the center,

after they dried... and then put some rock candy glitter...

Love the effect of it... 

 

 

 

I think I will put this onto a white bag for a gift bag...

I need to use some of my white bags up...

I bought way to many a few years ago... LOL..

if that a form of hoarding????  

Oh well... 

So be it... 

 

I hope you have a wonderful day....

create to your hearts content,

and even enjoy the clean up... 

Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit.

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie