Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Snow sports and games

I'm not a great one for snow sports. No ice-skating or sledging for me thanks ... and a disastrous holiday in Austria a few years ago proved once and for all that I will never be able to stand upright on skis, let alone proceed down a slope. So, this week, I've chosen the nice safe sport of snowman building!
This tag has an embossed and hand painted background, with white acrylic paint and glitter on the roof tops. The frame is also embossed, and has an acetate window with a few silver snowflake peel-offs. It's attached to the background using sticky pads to give a 3D effect.
The snowman is a topper from a Kanban card making set, which I've altered with gel pens. To finish I've added a few pearl beads to the frame to represent snowballs, and the tag is threaded with a pale blue shimmery ribbon.

Many thanks to Carolyn for hosting ~ I've spent the last week drooling over the wonderful snow tags. There's such a great variety of techniques on display.... and the quality of artwork is truly amazing!
I'm looking forward to seeing all this week's tags!

13 comments:

  1. I couldn`t agree more! No skiing for me either and definitely not ice-skating! But building a snowman is my cup of tea! Loved your tag!

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  2. I love your frame and window - what a lovely idea!

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  3. A lot of work here! Great job!

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  4. living in australia i dont get to experience snow games either....lovely tag, the window is a great idea...

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  5. Such a cute snowman and tag. Love the 3D effect. xx

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  6. The embossing is very effective and the acetate window is a great idea ... but mostly that snowman is adorable! Thank you for explaining how you made your tag Kathy x

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  7. This one's a cutie! Good work.

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  8. A fun tag, love it snowman adorable x Hugs May x

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  9. I really love this tag, the snowman is great!

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  10. I love the way this tag has three parts to it, the background, frame and the snowman standing on the edge.

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  11. Kathy your snowman is so cute, great tag.

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