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.

5th Day of 12 Days of Christmas tags.

Today I took an old Christmas card and cut out the birds that were on the front of it. I wanted to use Faber-Castell gelato but needed a smooth surface to manipulate the colors so I put distress collage medium from Tim Holtz on the tag. Then smeared on aqua dolce and silver ice onto the tag. I put two coats of those colors and white gesso, to give the illusion of a winter day. I laid the birds down on the card to see how I wanted them to go then pasted them down with a glue stick. I forgot to shade around the cut outs before gluing them so got out Derwent pastel pencils to use as shading. Then with a water barrel brush activated the pastel lines. I added some tree branches with Faber-Castell brown pitt pen and Prismacolor black brush tip marker. I also added color on the branches with red pastel pencil. To complete the scene I added snow with Heidi Swapp metallic texture paste.
I didn't take photos of all the steps, sorry.