Friday 3 December 2010

Play Date Cafe Challenge - Red and White

Hi there, it's been a couple of days I know but I confess I got distracted by the snow! It's finally stopped at just over a foot  and more in some places!
Anyway, over at the Play date Cafe challenge the colours are red and white and since I am busy with tags at the moment (Like most other Tim Holtz fans) I just carried on with tags as these colours will go with some of my gifts this year it made sense.
I made white tags and edged the bottom with a torn and punched piece of red card (Martha Stewart punch)
I cut 3 tattered floral flowers from white card and embossed them with various cuttlebug folders, secured with a white brad.
The Christmas sentiments are inkadinkadoo and I stamped them with Fired Brick distress ink. Over the tag I rubbed some rock candy distress stickles. Red and white embroidery thread for the bows which reminds me a bit of the candy canes that are eveywhere at this time of the year!

I love the subtl shadows you get with embossing on white.

Detail showing the lovely shine distress stickles give you.
Be blessed in your art.

7 comments:

Jan Hennings said...

Beautiful tags and love the classic red and white!

Ruby said...

Very pretty. I love how you've embossed the flowers, they look great. Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe this week!

Andrea Ewen said...

Super pretty! Love those embossed flowers...what a great idea! Thanks for playing along with us at the Play Date Cafe!

Michelle said...

These tags are so wonderful! The flowers are striking!

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

LOVE that most of the color is WHITE!! Love that beautiful flower:) Great job--Thanks so much for playing along and joining in the fun over at the PDCC:}

Fiona said...

Eye catching tags Neil - I can just imagine those on a beautifully wrapped white gift with a red ribbon - yum!

Sarah Anderson said...

Textured white is one of my favourites - and I just LoVe these white flowers on the tags. Thanks for playing along in the Play Date Cafe with us, we enjoy having you! :)