9th Day of the 12 Days of Christmas Tags

So here we are on the 9th day of Christmas tags. Today I thought of old St Nick as my subject for this tag.

I drew an image of Santa Claus then for some reason gesso the tag which smeared the pencil drawing but I worked around that.

Next I painted his hat red and used texture paste to add dimension to the fur around the hat and the ball at the tip. Then I painted the fur rim of the hat white and the ball on the tip of the hat also. I then painted the background with light blue then red and toned it down with white acrylic paint. I did Santa's face last, drawing in his eyes and nose with a Faber-Castell black pitt pen. Painted his face with a mixture of white, red, brown acrylic paint, then went back with more white. Added red acrylic paint for his lips and rosy cheeks. For the sentiment I painted HO HO HO. I get so engrossed with the project that I forget to take photos of each step I did in the process.

6th Day if the 12 Days of Christmas Tags

I didn't realize how difficult this was going to be thinking up new ideas for Christmas tags. Well day 6 with 6 more to go. Cross your fingers that I'm going to make it to day 12.

Here is another simple tag, fireplace with stocking hung waiting for Santa Claus. I drew the fireplace with a pencil that outlined with a Faber-Castell black pitt pen.

Colored the bricks of the fireplace with crimson red prismacolor marker and added some dimension with a red Sharpie marker. Colored the mantel with Prismacolors sienna brown and dark umber. The hearth was light umber with Spanish orange. I wanted it to look like tile, I added some lines with Golden iridescent gold. I didn't like the look so painted the whole thing in the gold. Drew candles on the mantel and painted them gold. I blackened the inside of the fireplace and added logs on fire with red, yellow and blue colors. I had some stocking stickers that I put hanging from the mantel.

I wrote Stockings hung as my sentiment.

3rd day of the 12 Days of Christmas Tags

Today I made a simple tag with a Christmas tree and a pigeon with a string of lights wrapped around it.

First I gesso the tag then heat blast it then paint a light coat with Tim Holtz distress paints, salted ocean.  Then added more gesso to lighten up the blue.

I'm don't draw well but I decided to draw a Christmas tree then painted it with 3 shades of green; light green, sap green, and phthalo green. On card stock I drew a banner and wrote MERRY on the flags, using different colors of glitter gel pens for each flag. I also put non colored glitter gel pen around the flags and string. I used a Faber-Castell black Pitt pen to outline the Christmas tree. Finally I set the wrapped penguin next to the tree. The penguin is from my stash, I've had it a long time. It looks so cute!

Second day-12 Days of Christmas Tags

This the second day of Christmas Tags and I had to redo a tag today. You know how it is when you have an idea and as you progress the idea didn't pan out. I kept trying to make it work but no matter what I did, like spraying with Tim Hotlz distress sprays, adding gesso, using red and green paint, it looked dreadful!

For the second tag, I took a Christmas tissue paper and Mod Podge it on the tag also sealing ealing the surface of the tissue. I had some old stick-ons of snow people and did a Vicky Papaioannou with cutting out some white hills for the snow people to sit on. I cut some card stock into 2 curvy hill shapes and painted them white. After gluing them on the tag I placed the snow people on the hills. I then used some gel pens to accent the snow flakes on the tissue paper. I wrote Merry Christmas with a black Faber-Castell Pitt pen.

The simmer of the gel pens are difficult
to see.

12 days of Christmas Tags

So today is December 1 and I thought it would be fun to share my 12 days of Christmas tags with everyone. Now I'm just a beginner so my tags aren't going to be as intricate as some other art journalist but these are going to be attached Christmas presents that will lend to a more polished look on the gift instead of store bought tags.

So I started out with a Manila colored tag, a Darice product that I picked up at Michael's. I put down some white gesso on the whole of the tag.

Next I painted it with two shades of green and yellow ochre. I blasted the tag with my heat tool then added some more of the acrylic paints. I really had no idea where I was going so let my muse take over with painting the whole tag with Golden iridescent gold paint. I liked the metallic look to the tag.

I had some old Christmas print craft paper so I fussy cut a poinsettia. I used a holly stencil that I used on a plain craft paper and using the same greens as the tag, then fussy cut them out and painted three holly berries too. I darkened the edges of the leaves and berries with Tim Holtz distress inks, pine needles and aged mahogany. Glued all down and I like it! Simple but nice for a holiday gift tag.