12 Tags of Christmas - Days 2 and 3

Here we are at day 7 and I've only just finished my second and third tags!

Day 2 of Tim Holtz '12 Tags of Christmas' was all about making a custom ink pad.  I only had 2 distress re-inkers (Walnut Stain and Tattered Rose) so my stamp is not very colourful, but I do like the effect.  I couldn't get the stamped image to emboss - think I was working a little too slowly, so I overstamped the image with some versamark embossing ink and that did the trick!  The image I'm talking about is the dove carrying some holly in it's beak and I think it looks a bit like a sticker!

I added a snowman button to the bottom right hand corner and he's sitting on what's supposed to be snow (from a cotton wool pad, the idea taken from the chimney smoke on Tim's first tag) - or it could be a cloud!

DDay 3 - this tag used some of the new product 'tissue tape'.  I bought some earlier in the year but hadn't used it before now.  I love it, it's very easy to use and has a nice feel and some gorgeous printed collage text on .  I think I may be asking Santa for some more of this!

Here's a couple of close ups

I'm sorry if the layout of this post is all over the place, I'm doing it in a hurry and you know what's like when you try to rush, it takes twice as long and things tend to go wrong!

I'm linking these tags to the linky thingy over at Artyjen's blog where lots of people are sharing their tags for all to see!