Snow sports and games

Here is my tag for week 2. I must admit it took me a while to get going with this one, but once I found the right image it didn't take long to complete.

At first I couldn't find an image I wanted to use, but then remembered a Dutch Christmas card from last year and took this as my starting point. Apart from buying a few snowflakes in the Hobbycraft sale ( and stocking up on supplies while I was there!), I used what I could find in my studio.

For a base I used a tag from a book of craft papers as a template, making it with thin card and covered it in white felt with silver snowflakes on. Over this I layered some papers painted with watercolours, adding sugar and rock salt for crystals, and using patterned craft scissors to give a fancy edge. The image went on top of this, sprinkled with large and small snowflakes (the small ones are cut with a snowflake cutter left over from last week), then some small pompoms as snowballs.

To decorate the top corner I used some vintage buttons as snowballs or ice crystals on top of a layer of Angelina which had been ironed between two sheets of baking parchment.

Here is a close up of the lower half

and a close up of the vintage buttons.

For the reverse side of the tag I used some sparkly left over Christmas wrapping paper topped with snowflakes and stars.

This is the original Christmas card. I photocopied it as didn't want to cut it up!