Hi, guys!
Winnie’s hubby here again.
Win’s finally finished all of her card orders and is now
busy making all the Christmas cards we need for our family and friends, so she
asked me to step in and blog the tags I made for Christmas.
But for all of you crafters who think you know what’s coming
from the title, trust me, you don’t.
What is coming is yet another
example of why I leave the stamping to her and stick to taking the pictures of
her beautiful creations. For those
who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s some background:
Anyone who follows this blog faithfully knows that Winnie is
a huge fan of
Tim Holtz, and for good reason – the guy is to crafting what R.A.
Dickey currently is to the knuckleball: probably the finest and most inventive practitioner
out there.
(And the Mets traded
him – Dickey, not Holtz - don’t get me started.) For a number of years he (Holtz,
not Dickey) did what he called the “12 Tags of Christmas,” where over the
course of twelve days he demonstrated on his blog various techniques he used to
make these beautiful tags, suitable for attaching to gifts, as the gifts
themselves, or, as we’ve done for the last two years with a tag Winnie made and
gave me in 2009, when we were dating, as a Christmas tree ornament.
In fact, here’s the tag
in situ on our tree this year:
This year he made it easier on himself (after storms and power
outages last year forced him to trek to the local Starbucks every day to send
his posts) and craft retailers around the country (who had to scramble to stock their stores with the supplies he used) and spread the work out over the year, turning the exercise into the
“12 Tags of 2012.” But traditions
die hard at our house. So here are
my “9 Tags of Christmas”:
And here’s a close-up:
Supplies:
Stamps: PSX Stamp E-317 (Winnie
tells me some of these are valuable now – I’m guessing not this one, though)
Paper: Red construction
paper (Staples?)
Ink: Personal Stamp
Exchange Green
(Told you.)
I’ve been making these for my Christmas presents for the
last twenty years or so. I found
the stamp at a craft fair back then and haven’t bought a tag since. I may even be using the same stamp pad. Winnie finds all this endearing
somehow.
By next Tuesday this may wind up being the “22 Tags of
Christmas,” as I’ve already used up five of them. It’s kind of like the old snack food line “Crunch all you
want, we’ll make more.” But I (or
anyone else) would rather get one of Winnie’s any day.
However, she, as she recently showed me, has saved all the tags
I made her, which as you can tell from the picture is basically the same one
over and over again.
She has a
tiny drawer full of them.
Awwwwwww, dang.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
