Friday, January 29, 2016

January 2016 Tag

I am trying to get in more creative time this year.
And by helping me with this goal, I have decided to do Tim's 2016 Tags.

So here is my January 2016 Tag!!!
I have done these tags for 2 years, and every year for January, it is a New Year type of theme.
For this year I wanted to do something a bit different, so went for a Snowflake theme.
Up here where I live January is one of the coldest months with plenty of snow.....so I thought it was fitting to do my tag to reflect that...plus I wanted to do some colour :)






















Ok, lets get started.
First we need a tag ;)
Tim has some foil paper, where I don't, so I use my own way of adding foil to the tag.
I have done this many times and it works great!!
I use foil tape...the type that is used to tape duct work :)
Here is the first video I did on using this product "Foil tag".

The foil on this tag stuck where I didn't want it..see the bit of tag showing at the bottom...this stuff sure is Sticky.






















Because I am doing a snowflake theme, I grabbed this cute snowflake embossing strip...cute right?!
I forgot to take a photo after I embossed it...it looked pretty in just the silver :)






















I wanted to add some colour to my tag, as in the past years of my January tags, were more a vintage look to them.
So I added alcohol ink to the foil.
Isn't this so so pretty :)
I ran a second embossing folder to the top of my tag as I loved the look of the icicles hanging from the top of the tag.








Tim is revisiting some old techniques.
For this tag he was playing with the chalkboard technique.
Honestly I didn't really like that one when I did it years ago.
Not sure if it was the technique I didn't like or how my tag turned out...but whichever it was, I changed it up ;)
I heat embossed my image with multi colours of embossing powder.
I later did add some chalk around the edges of the paper, just to say I did some chalking, lol.
















Now for some embellishing.
I know I have some metal snowflake charms in my stash...but do you think I could find them?!?
Nope
I really need to get into that craft room and do some organizing in there.
So what I did was grab these white plastic snowflake buttons and altered them.
Again I used the alcohol inks to add some colour and cut the backs off of the buttons.






















I used one of these sentiment word bands and added washi tape that I cut thinner to each end.
A video on how I cut my "washi tape to be thinner"
I also added a bit of white paint and then buffed it off to read the words a bit better.
















Here is the completed tag.






















I also did a full tutorial on how I put this tag together :)
If you would like to watch it on my YouTube channel...just click the link :) "Tracy's Treasures24"

I hope you all enjoyed my tag and how I put it together.

I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

12 comments:

  1. OH YA, lovin' this! So excited to see you play this year... or at least this one. Fabulous colours on that tag. I like where "we" headed with these ;)

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  2. This is so gorgeous, Tracy!! I love the snowflake theme and the beautiful colors!! I also used foil tape on my tag that I stole from my dad ;) Love this!! Have a great weekend!! Big hugs :)

    Lisa
    A Mermaid's Crafts

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  3. Awesome job on the tag, I watched the video last night it was very helpful for me as I printed off Tim's tag to try of course the month is coming to an end and it's not even started.

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  4. I love it when you play along with Tim's tags!! This looks so cool with the foil!

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  5. Beautiful tag, Tracy, so glad to see you getting some crafty time in!

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  6. Gorgeous tag, Tracy! The colors are just, delicious!!

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  7. You already know I think this is gorgeous! Beatiful job on your tag!

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  8. Horray!!
    Love love the tag -
    Ok so now i want to play with alcohol inks!

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  9. Horray!!
    Love love the tag -
    Ok so now i want to play with alcohol inks!

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  10. Horray
    I love love this tag -
    I want to play with alcohol inks now !

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  11. Horray
    I love love this tag -
    I want to play with alcohol inks now !

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  12. Love the colour on this! That snowflake is beautiful! TFS

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