Michael Strong Holiday Tag Blog Hop

Welcome to the Michael Strong Tag Blog Hop.We hope to give you some Holiday inspiration for the Season of 2011. 13 blogs have joined together to make sure you see lots of creativety with some of Michael Strongs favourite stamps.
Not only do you get lots of inspiration, but there is also a prize to win: Michael Strong stamps!
While you are hopping, you also collect 13 letters and make a sentiment out of it. This sentiment you mail to: Hetty (buzzy4you@hotmail.com)  and on the 7th of December the prize winner will be announced.

And now for some creativety:

Here are the tags I made for the blog hop! I had so much fun that I made 4 tags with the numbers of the new year. I might make a card out of it. I cut the numebers with my cricut and used George and Basic Shapes font cartridge. For the base of the tags I cut some paper in the size of 3 x 5,5 inch.

I used Tim Holtz movers and shapers snowflakes and cut

some masks out of the TH mask sheet and placed

them on top of the tags.

The tags were placed in a box and sprayed with

Puerto Rico glimmermist.

When you take the masks of the tags it looks like this.

Take your tonic distress tool, some ice spruced distress

ink and your blending tool to deepen the color of the tag..

Now you can go ahead and decorate.

All the tags are a little different.
This one is with Michael Strong's Chrismas tree
and ornament (as a charm) and
Tim Holtz townscape die.

For this tag I used Tim Holtz rosette

And Michael Strong's cloisonné circle

and dog. The circle is embossed in siver

and the dog is colored with pencil.

For this tag I printed a mini-calendar.

If you like this too, you can find this

online: HERE.

On the last tag I used Michael Strong's

Snowpal. You see also snowflakes. Those are

cut with Tim Holtz movers and shapers. i used some cheap

glitter rubber that now is available everywhere.

The sentiment is also by Michael Strong on one

of the banners cut out of a Tim Holtz die.

As you have seen on tree of the tags I have some

charms made out of the Michael Strong stamps.

I used shrink plastic to make them. I stamped the image on the

shrink plastic and cut it out. The tree with a die,

but the ornament and the snowpal with scissors.

Before heating the shrink plastic, color your image with pencil

and make a hole for the ribbon.

This is to show you how small the image became.

I used the middle size Christmas tree.

I finished them with adding glossy accent.

In the hole I put a tooth pick to keep it open

for the ribbon.

These are all the Blogs that participate, so if you get lost come back here to see where else you can go.

Mind you: people from all over the world are taking part, so it can happen that their blog is not in the air yet.
Go back at some later moment in time and see what beautiful artwork they have made.

1. Hetty -> you are here

2. Michael Strong

3. Joanna

4. Judy

5. Kathie

6. Michelle

7. Shelly

8. Trena

9. Jennifer

10. Diana

11. Dorly

12. Heidi

13. Herma

Now all you need is a letter for your scavenger hunt. My letter is the last one of my name: "Y".
Happy Hopping and Hunting!

Have a creative day!