Merry & Bright Etcetera Tag

Welcome back my lovely crafty friends!

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas around here. I took a break from cardmaking and made this decor item using a medium Etcetera tag.

~ The finished project ~

I began with a medium Etcetera Tag and the Christmas Paper Stash.

I chose several different patterns of paper and trimmed them down to make a patchwork on my tag. I used matte medium to adhere my paper to the tag & trimmed off the excess. I then used my sanding block to distress the edges and peel off bits of the paper. 

I used my Distress Crayons - Black Soot, Vintage Photo & Walnut Stain - to go around the edges, of the tag and the pieces of paper.

Next I added some Antiqued Bronze Distress Crayon - this added just a bit of shimmer.

To complete my tag - I added some Festive Paper Dolls, Christmas Quote Chips, 

Christmas Clippings Stickers, 

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Merry Christmas!

It's the most wonderful time of the year and I have just started my Christmas cards.

It's time to power through and get them in the mail by Dec 1.

Here is the completed card - it's a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" square card.

I started with a 5"x 5" square piece of Superstock - this is a fabulous cardstock 

from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine.

I tacked this down to piece of chipboard with washi tape.

I then taped down a piece of torn copy paper across my cardstock.

 I wanted to create a wintery sky for my card background and decided to use

Distress Oxides. I love the soft chalky look of these inks.

The colours I used Broken China; Salty Ocean; Peacock Feathers;

Wilted Violet; Seedless Preserves and Faded Jeans.

I removed the copy paper and had a lovely winter sky over a snowy ground cover.

Next I used the "snowfall" die from the Winter Wonderland die set.

I die cut the deers from the Winter Wonderland die set with Seedless Preserves Kraft cardstock & the Retro Merry Christmas die with silver Deco Sheet.

I assemble my card for a perfectly wintery Christmas card.

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