Not a snowflake in sight...

..and that means either outside or on my crafting ! Nope, we've had no snow..I thought at first we had had a light dusting but it seems to be more of a heavy frost than anything just on the cars and the roof...and as for my crafting, I've been poorly all week,(still sniffling now - kleenex and Lemsip have made millions I bet!) and the mojo and motivation was definately lacking. However yesterday I picked up a bit so rather than battle with the last of my Christmas cards I made just what I fancied - a non-Christmas but definately Tim inspired tag....

I used distress inks to colour the tag (bundled sage, pumice stone, frayed burlap, tattered rose, antique linen) scrunching and wrinkling before adding some Walnut ink DI to the raised areas. I used an ATC which I again coloured with DI and did a bit of masking too before stamping. I used some tissue tape (traveller) down one side and stamped and cut out some tickets to make a border along the bottom with a lace scrap.  

I then followed Tims video from his 12 tags of Christmas post to make the tissue tape flower and was really pleased how it turned out after adding Moonglow shadow mist. I've taken a close up to try and show how this gorgeous mist adds a hint of shimmery colour - in this case emerald, you can see it better if you click to enlarge the pic. Although I really just went with whatever took my fancy to make this I did have a couple of challenges in mind and there are a couple that it happens to fit so I will be entering this into - Sir Stampalot - Travel the World, Gingersnap Creations - Vintage Hues, The Stamp Man - Anything goes tag and Simon says Stamp and Show - A Tim Holtz technique. 

And now I'm off to play some more - I'm so excited as I took possession yesterday of  long awaited for and much sought after the tattered florals and rosette dies! Technically they are Christmas presents from my mum but , well, I had to order them and they're here and unwrapped so...sshh..don't tell anyone !

Thanks for stopping by...Esther xx