Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Bah! Humbug! Christmas Stocking Challenge




This week the Humbuggers are calling for Christmas stockings. I decided to pull out my Christmas Lace cartridge for only the second time. I was so excited about this cart until I saw that the backing for the lace designs weren't shadows, but only a backing for the cut outs, and in some cases I found it difficult to even tell what some of the images were. That's sort of how I felt about the Christmas stocking. Awfully skinny, if you ask me, so I grabbed Christmas Cheer and played around in Design Studio to skew one of the stockings enough to be sort of a shadow and cut the scrolly part out of the center. I then skewed the shadow of that stocking for a backing. It was so large, that unless I wanted to make a 6x9" card I needed to think of something else so I decided to use it as an over sized tag. Large presents look sort of ridiculous with teeny tiny tags, so there you go.





I glued the embossed solid tag to the shadow, cut teeny red foam pieces to pop the lacy bit and added adhesive beads to embellish. The hanging tag is cut from George and "For You", computer generated. I think it turned out pretty elegant, don't you? Be sure to stop by B!H! to see the fab inspiration and read the post for this challenge. It's a hoot! Max is BACK! HeeHee! I also found a fairly new Christmas challenge blog which runs their challenges monthly (for all you guys that can't handle Christmas once a week (LOL). The April challenge for the Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge is Ribbons and Gems so I'm entering my tag there as well. go check them out.

19 comments:

  1. Oh yes! Really elegant indeed! :)

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  2. OMG! That's so pretty! Love the ornate cut. It's nice to see it cut larger like this...youreally get to see all the detail. Geez, Donna, I can't keep up with you this week!

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  3. This tag is so pretty Donna, very elegant! Love all your embossing and beading...just the perfect touch!

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  4. This card is definitely my cup of tea...elegant...YES! Beautiful...YES! Love your design work and find it very inspirational.

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  5. Now THIS is an elegant Christmas Stocking....I love how your design brought a little stocking to life with the scrolls, the colors, the embossing. WOW..
    Carole

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  6. Oh this is just beautiful!! Love it! :)

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  7. Everything u do is simply amazing....Definitely very elegant.. hugs

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  8. Think Sandy from Ukiah says it all about your work - 'amazing' always. I just love this and if I got a present with it on I wouldn't care what was inside as I would be so in love with the tag.
    Ann xxx
    Bah! Humbug! DT

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  9. Oooh, pretty...and you are such a genius!

    (P.S. I sent you that card because you said I should send it to you when it was up on my blog a couple of months ago! LOL! I follow direction! Just don't tell me to go jump in the lake....I don't swim well!)

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  10. Tell you something Donna, this is definitely a keepsake tag - absolutely gorgeous! I may even be persuaded to sacrifice my stockings with bells on y'know.
    Tap ... Tap ... click ... click ... Dinga-linga-ling LOL!
    Thank you for sharing with us at Bah! Humbug!

    Luv'n'Stuff
    Max
    xx
    Max's Craft Creations
    Bah! Humbug! Challenges DT

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  11. Another amazing creation. Your tag is gorgeous. Love that lacey cut. The colors you chose only accents the elligance of this tag (is that a word)! As always so inspired:)

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  12. Another stunning creation. If you hadn't told me it is 6 x 9 I would have had no idea. And even though they all say "Size doesn't matter" I know better.

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  13. This is a fabulous tag with its own little baby tag :) I have had second thoughts about this cartridge, but after seeing what you did with it I might have to re-visit it. I LOVE those beads!

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  14. Absolutely gorgeous, what a special affect.

    Thanks for joining us at SFCC.

    Huggies Angel

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  15. This is just gorgeous.Thanks for sharing with us at SFCC.xxx

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  16. Just gorgeous! Love the colours!

    Thank you for joining us at SFCC this month, good luck!
    Hugs Shell x

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  17. You did a fantastic job with this! How clever to pop the cutout for the 3D effect. You think of everything, even red popups! It is gorgeous!

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  18. Stunnig. What an elegant tag!

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Thanks for making my day!