My Christmas Wish 12 Tags of Christmas Funkie Junkie Style Week 3

Hello friends and welcome!  Can you believe we are already 4 days into December? Where did November go? I'm slowly getting through Linda's (Funkie Junkie) 12 Tags of Christmas challenge and loving every minute of it! I sure hope I'm not boring you with all these Christmas cards!

 The 12 week challenge is super easy to complete--if you're driven, you might even be able to start today and get 'er done! The rewards are numerous--you get your Christmas cards done, and if you complete the challenge and follow the simple guidelines, you will be in the draw to win one of three GENEROUS shopping sprees to The Funkie Junkie Boutique, who is sponsoring this event. EVERYONE who completes the challenge and follows the guidelines receives a 10% discount on their January order at the shop!

 Although I was inspired by the diagonal bright red stripes, festive Fluted Stars and Christmas fringe on Linda's sweet candy cane tag, I was a little stumped by this one. Well, a lot stumped, since I didn't have that stencil and a couple of trials using what I did have were tossed in the trash. I started this third design by using Tim's Christmas Kraft stock, since it already had some of those candy cane prints, but I wanted something brighter (or so I thought) for this card to be more like Linda's jolly tag HERE. So I dipped into my old Christmas stash and used Tim's old Merriment paper stash. Even though the stripes aren't diagonal, I thought if I rolled the paper, some of them would be slanting.

I chose one of Tim's Christmas ephemera pieces for my sentiment and colored the berries and holly loosely with Distress ink, water pen and Distress markers and added Stickles to the berries on the ephemera and also to the die cut berries.

 I love the Christmas fringe and Fluted Stars Tim came out with this year! I colored mine with Watermelon and Mercury Glass alcohol inks.

Linda carries some gorgeous lace in her shop, and I chose this lovely Venice Lace which I colored with Antique Linen Distress spray stain. The poinsettia is a combination of several from my stash, the red one colored to match the paper.

The rolled paper makes this a little fat to send through the regular mail, but that's OK. I think this will be hand delivered to my daughter, who loves horses.

Yep! You might see the spider web-bie wrap on our Christmas tree in the photos. It's still wrapped up from the tree lot and sitting in a bucket of water. Since I'm terribly allergic, we hose it down everyday for a week or so before bringing it in the house.

I'll be sharing with these challenges:

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

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Star Light Star Bright

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

SumMore Fun Mood Board #16 I was inspired by the photo with the cinnamon stick and the one with the lantern (rustic) as well as the theme, Let it Snow.
Country View Challenges December 2017 - Christmas Well, I have the red and the green this time!
Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Challenge #310 - #311
Dies R Us Challenge #86 - Christmas Carols 'Jingle Bells' "One horse open sleigh!"
Noor Design December Challenge.... Anything Goes
Die Cut Divas Winter Time

Thank you for your visit today and for all your lovely comments! I sure do appreciate them and I'm really enjoying repaying the visits and seeing all your wonderful artwork! If I haven't been by lately, be assured it won't be long!

Hugs and Blessings!

Sara Emily

I've used the following products, which can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique:

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 14PK - Paper Snowflakes, Mini by Tim Holtz	Sizzix Holiday Greens Die Leaves	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Ephemera Pack - Christmas	( LATE SEPTMEBER PRE - ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fringe Christmas	Ranger Archival Ink - Vermillion
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Festive Berries	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Frayed Burlap	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Tim Holtz Ground Espresso Distress Ink Pad	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Mowed Lawn
Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Stain Spray - Antique Linen	Venise Lace Trim - One Inch (1")	(LATE SEPTEMBER PRE - ORDER) Tim Holtz Idea-ology Fluted Stars	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Mushroom	Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Ink - Watermelon
Seasonal Stickles Assortment - Holiday	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Stickles - Clear Rock Candy