Christmas tag with candle (Candleshop by Tim Holtz)

This time I made a tag with a die set that I bought a long time ago but have never used it. And this set was the Candleshop by Tim Holtz.

The background of the tag was created with a stencil, called Gatherings. I took a watercolour paper and I applied transparent texture paste through the stencil and I sprinkled with gold embossing powder. I let it dry. When the texture paste was dry I used my heating tool and I melted the embossing powder.

And I used this technique, because when I just used embossing ink through the stencil the pattern became blurred. With this technique I got a more crisp image.

Using the biggest die of the Tag Collection die set, I cut out a tag from my embossed panel, then I coloured the whole tag with Uncharted Mariner and the edges with Chipped Sapphire. Later I also added Ground Espresso to the edges.

Using different red paints, I put together one of the candles.

For the greens, I used the Mini Holiday Greens, and painted with green paints.

The tiny text was stamped on a black paper with embossing ink and I heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

But this time, I also stamped a big text to the back of the tag.

What I used:

Sizzix Thinlits die, Candleshop by Tim Holtz (666331)

Sizzix Thinlits die, Holiday Greens, Mini by Tim Holtz (661597)

Sizzix Framelits die, Tag Collection by Tim Holtz (658784)

Stampers Anonymous layering stencil, Gatherings by Tim Holtz (TH152)

Stampers Anonymous, Bold Tidings 2 by Tim Holtz (CMS419)

Stampers Anonymous, Tiny Text Christmas by Tim Holtz (CMS424)

Ranger embossing powder (Princess Gold)

Ranger Distress paints

Ranger Distress inks

Ranger Distress texture paste (transparent)