Papertrey October Blog Hop Challenge; CFC #118; NBUS #65; Rudolph Day

Greetings, Crafty Friends!

Today is the 25th day of the 10th month of the 2,013th year and that means it is another blog hop challenge at Nichole's Papertrey Ink (PTI) glorious website, as well as Rudolph Day at Stamping For Pleasure.  And we can't forget we've also whooshed around to another Friday, drawing ever more perilously close to Christmas!!

 

My friend Sandra hosts Rudolph Day where the rule is that you have to make something festive ~  and for this month's PTI blog hop challenge we are to make festive tags.  Here is our photag inspiration:

As fun would have it, there is also a "tags and bags" challenge going on at CAS-ual Fridays, so I'm linking up there, as well.

Frank Lee, I prefer making cards to making tags, so this was a challenge for me that turned out to be happily successful once I decided that I wanted to make my tags in the shape of a Ball jar.  I used a die from Paper Smooches for my jar, but you can also find fine jar dies at other companies, including PTI.

 

With one exception of pine needles (from SU!), the little jar tags are filled with PTI images, most of which are NBUS, and all of the tags are made from either PTI white or kraft paper.  The other ingredients I'll list at the end.  Almost all of the images were enhanced with either Wink of Stella pens or my white gel pen.  Unfortunately, even taking the pictures in the sunlight did not show off the winking and sparking that you can see IRL. 

 

I made seven tags.  Actually I made ten of them, but three didn't quite get finished in time.  

 

Enjoy~



  

 

  

  

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*  

 

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Images:  PTI "Holiday Button Bits" and
"Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers"
Dies:  PTI "Holly Jolly"
Paper Smooches "Crystal Clear" jar
Ink:  PTI spring moss, new leaf, pinefeather
Doodle Twine
Rain Dots by Cloud 9
Wink of Stella and Sakura gel pen
Miscellaneous silver thread, hemp, eyeballs, jingle bells, and felt
Cropadile, SU! rivets