Joy to the World!-12 Tags of Christmas-Week 3

Welcome! I've completed Week 3 of 12 Tags of Christmas-Funkie Junkie Style and this time I really had to put on my creative thinking cap, because I had almost none of the wonderful products Linda used for her elegant tag.

The 12 Tags of Christmas is a weekly challenge hosted by Linda Coughlin of the Funkie Junkie blog, and generously sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique. Currently she is on Week 9 of her inspiring challenge, so I've got a lot of catching up to do! If you participate in all 12 weeks of the challenge, you may be chosen as a lucky winner of some very generous gift certificates to Linda's well stocked shop The Funkie Junkie Boutique. But EVERYONE  who follows the rules gets a generous 15% off coupon to use in January! It's a win, win, win Christmas scenario!

My background stenciling was done on black cardstock. I used Tim Holtz Flourish stencil and texture paste mixed with gold acrylic paint. I was able to get a reflected pattern simply by using one side of the stencil, letting that side dry, then flipping the stencil over and doing the other side of the card. Once it was all dry, I replaced the stencil and went over the flourishes with my metallic wax rub on my finger.

I was inspired not only by Linda's elegant color scheme, but by the musical notes. I chose a printed paper from my stash and cut a panel using an old Spellbinders die I received as a gift from my lovely and talented blog friend Kathy Clement of Kathy By Design. If you haven't seen all the amazing projects Kathy whips out at amazing speed, you must drop by and see her inspiring work! I inked the panel with Frayed Burlap and Walnut Stain to age it a little and layered it on some heavy card stock to give it some stability.

I didn't have Linda's doves, but I liked the idea of the die cuts, so I chose Tim's Victorian Carolers and cut them twice--once from black card and once from manila file folders. I edged both the black and the manila cuts with my metallic wax rub and layered them up, offsetting for a glow-y halo. The carolers were popped up with Ranger black adhesive foam tape.

I liked Linda's snowflakes, and I haven't had a chance to use my not so new Mini Paper Snowflakes Thinlits die yet. I cut 6 of the smaller ones out of file folder, inked with Frayed Burlap and spritzed on Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold mist. I layered these with foam dots.

Once again, inspired by Linda's tag, for my sentiment I used a Tim Holtz Labels Thinlits die and added a Holiday Talk Metallic Sticker. I inked in Frayed Burlap and edged with the metallic wax rub. I layered this up on some ribbon I colored with Tarnished Brass Spray stain and pleated using my hot glue gun.

I wanted to lighten up the background just a little more, so I cut a little off my black stenciled panel and layered it up on a card blank I stamped with a Heidi Swapp image in Potting Soil Archival ink. I blended on some Frayed Burlap ink.

That's it for me! Please head over to The Funkie Junkie to see Lind'a inspiring tag and all the other entries into this challenge. There's still time to get your's into the mix! What are you waiting for?

Products used that can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

I am sharing this card with these inspiring challenges:

The Funkie Junkie 12 Tags of Christmas-Funkie Junkie Style-Week 3

Southern Ridge Trading Company-Christmas

Happy Little Stampers November Anything Goes With Dies Challenge

-Noor! Design Challenge #24-Winter

-Morgan's Art World-Challenge #23- Use An Item From Your Stash I used my old ribbon seambinding and gave it a facelift with Tarnished Brass spray. The Spellbinders die is also an old item from my stash.

-Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge-Trio-Tastic I used three snowflakes.

-Mod Squad Ribbon, Ribbon! Who's Got the Ribbon?

Addicted to Stamps-Challenge #136-Die Cutsand/or Punches (with a stamp) I used a Heidi Swapp stamp top and bottom. 12/11

We Love 2 Create-Challenge #24-Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

-Deep Ocean Challenge#142-"Inspired By a Song or a Movie" I was inspired by the carol "Joy to the World".

Thank you for stopping by today and for all your encouraging comments! I read and appreciate each and every one of them!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily 

UPDATE: Yippee!