Good morning! I’m excited to join Tracey McNeely for my third year of her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event! Today I’m honored to represent Concord & 9th and the Where Creativity Meets C9 design team! If you’ve never heard of Where Creativity Meets C9, we’re a challenge blog celebrating our love for Concord & 9th…it’s been a rough few weeks as our challenge blog was taken down by hackers (*ugh*) but we’re working on getting it back up and running so we can share more Concord & 9th inspiration with you!
Anyway, done with my shameless plug, 😉 here’s my tag:
I decided to go a little old-school and pulled out my most favorite Concord & 9th set ever: O Christmas Tree! It’s just a classic gorgeous holiday set and it was what led me to discover Concord & 9th!
I started by blending blueprint sketch, mermaid lagoon, and peacock feathers distress ink onto a piece of strathmore bristol cardstock. I spritzed it with iridescent spray and then die-cut it with a stitched fishtail tag die. Then I simply stamped the sentiment with versafine and heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder and then stamped the tree with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I added a few peacock gems that sparkle in similar teal tones when they catch the light. Finally I topped the tag with a little bit of teal sequin ribbon. Concord & 9th used to carry this and I literally bought like 8 spools of each color they carried and have hoarded it ever since! 😉
If this is the first you’re hearing of Tracey’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event make sure to head here to read all about it and enter your tags for a chance to win a prize from one of these fabulous sponsors:
Thanks so much for visiting today and have a wonderful week!!
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I look forward to this every year because it inspires me to start creating holiday goodies and lots of tags–thank you!
Don’t just copy and paste your comment on every blog… write something nice you see for each designer… they put a lot of hard work into their creations. They deserve to have you actually look at their work.
Love the colors on your tag.
Loving this tag…..simple and none traditional colors. Looking forward to following these 25 days. Thanks for sharing
I love the gorgeous blend of color on your fun holiday tag, Jessica! It really sets off that pretty white tree!
Absolutely gorgeous, Jessica! The blues…swoon!
hugs~carol
I LOVE the blues! I just got oxide inks and I can’t wait to try this!
These colors are gorgeous and it’s always a nice reminder to see the power of emboss resist. The sequin string is a wonderful touch too.
Love that cute tree and pretty color combo! Awesome tag!
This is amazing you have so much talent and the idea of making many tags is perfect for the gift to give on christmas
Very nice tags, gorgeous colour combination.
Your tag is so sweet!!
This is really cute Jessica. The blended background really sets off the tree and sentiment. A great colour combo! Well done as always.
I love embossing resist & it’s perfect with these gorgeous colors! So wintry & festive!
Beautiful tag! Wonderful design and perfectly festive.
Gorgeous inking – the colours are wonderful!
Such a fun tag!
Love your beautiful tag and though I don’t have oxides, I have distress inks and could use your ideas. Thanks for the inspiration.
Love this so much! It brings me back to the old days of bottle brush trees and the blue and white color combo – so retro but so new. This is my first year of the 25 tags of Christmas and I’m really looking forward to more of your beautiful work! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful tag Jessica, love those colours and the spritzing really gave a wonderful mottled look.
Really pretty tag! Such a clever use of sequins…surely makes it special~
hi Jess!
What a super cool background. i love the tree…that amazes me. Absolutely an awesome little tag. Thanks for the fabulous inspiration.
Blessings,
Karen Letchworth
http://www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com
I love tag using distress. It was an amazing tag!
What a beautiful tag!
So sorry about the blog. I have missed it! 🙂 Who gets joy out of hacking a craft challenge blog?!??
Love the tag. The colors are so pretty and
the tree really pops. thanks for sharing
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