I am honored today to be guest designer for Loll's 11th day of her 12 tags of Christmas. I began by smooshing and splashing only part of my card in Adirondack inks leaving some white space. This is an unusual color combination I saw on Pinterest. While that dried I used Kitchen Sink Stamps to stamp the skates. These stamps are multi-step stamping and I was delighted to see this new release. I enhanced the shading a bit with pencils and did stamp the shadows a bit lighter than the recommended recipe. A stitching line was hand drawn on the skate around the eyelets and heel and pierced with a pergamano piercing tool. Hand stitched with a beading needle. Then set 16 mini eyelets and laced the skates. The brad was used for the hook that is usually on the top of a skate. I fussy cut the skate and used Cosmic Shimmer Silver watercolor paint for the blade.
Used Inkadinkado Flourish and heat embossed on the background. I had some Brutus Monroe Icicle powder and mistakenly thought it was white so the flourish doesn't show. Stamped the sentiment and heat embossed. Punched the pine sprigs from glitter paper and added some Tim Holtz holly die cuts from the same paper, arranged a wall decoration and hung the skates with thread. Nail heads were used in the center. I finished it off with just a bit of Frantage.
Thank you Loll for hosting this fun challenge for five years and inviting me to be a part of it! We've had so much fun with this.
Come join the fun for the final year of Loll's Twelve Tags of Christmas. You have until November 23rd to enter your tags so there is still time to play.
Thanks for stopping by.
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018 GMT Views: 3830
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Accessories: Mini Eyelets, thread, Cosmic shimmer watercolor, Clear Brutus Monroe embossing powder, Frantage, Silver embossing powder, nail heads, brad for hook on the skate, Tim Holtz holly leaves die, Martha Stewart pine punch, pencils, SU silver cord, silver bead
Registered: January 20, 2010 Location: Brampton, Ontario Posts: 26180
Thu, Nov 22, 2018 @ 8:30 AM
Incredible! I would love to watch you create one of these works of art but will make do with re-reading the details you provide. This is gorgeous! Forget the gift, no one will remember it at all, ...only the wonderful tag that adorned it!
Registered: January 8, 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 40409
Thu, Nov 29, 2018 @ 7:07 PM
Nancy, I'm a bit slow, ha, I haven't seen all your wonderful Christmas tags in your gallery - I look forward to viewing them! This one is absolutely gorgeous with the colours you have used and the skates look amazing, they do not look like a stamp at all!
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Registered: March 28, 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 499
Tue, Mar 05, 2019 @ 3:13 PM
Gorgeous Winter Skates tag ... WOW, the added detail you added to the skates (stitching, eyelets and the mirror shimmer on the blades) looks absolutely fabulous! A work of art!