Let It Snow....

Hello again, I've been a crafting bee lately. It's been really cold (like below zero) and snowing here so I've been staying home and using my time to craft. At any rate, there is a super fun challenge over at 

Tag A Long called "Frosty the Snowman" and all you have to do is create a tag in the theme in order to play along. How Fun!!

Also, over at Stampotique Designers Blog it's "Anything Goes" this month. So I am entering my tag for that challenge as well.

So for this theme I chose a stamp by Daniel Torrent called Snowy Fran you can see her over at Stampotique Originals. 

I stamped my Fran onto card stock and then colored her with copic markers and then cut her out. 

I set Mrs Fran aside and went to work on my background. I used Tim Holtz distress paints and tissue paper to create this portion. I simply added the paint directly to my craft sheet and spritzed with water and then ran my tissue paper though it

Once that was dry I used a manilla tag by Ranger and some glue and seal to adhere my tissue paper to my tag. I sort of scrunched it up a bit as I went

I spritzed my background and a few snowflakes that I will be using for my background with silver perfect pearls 

I used some delicate Memory Box dies along with red card stock to create some flourishes for the edges of my tag

I wanted to do some star stencils in my background so I used Archival blue ink and a crafters workshop stencil. The stencil that I used had too many stars so I taped some card stock underneath in order to block some of them off.  I just put some stars here and there onto my background.

I made a flower for the bottom corner with the Tim Holtz tattered flower die strip and card stock. I also used some of the tissue paper. I added a red glittery center to finish it off

I created this star with some mirrored paper and card stock. I added a rivet so that I could hang it from Fran's arm

After adhering everything to my background and creating my phrase, this is what my finished tag looks like

Thanks for stopping by, I hope that you stay warm and safe in the comfort of your home!! 

Cheers!