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Hi all and welcome to another week on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Thank you for joining us for the Let It Snow Challenge and we hope you will all join us again this week too.
We will be back soon with the name of the lucky winner of the $50 Voucher
This week the challenge is

TAG IT

We are showcasing Tim Holtz Products this week. You don't have to use them to join in but if you have some we would love to see them used

As always Simon Says Stamp will be giving away $50 voucher to shop at the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Store

Things were going so well with my tag I used Kraft card and stamped the Holly from Tim Holtz Mini Holidays 3, I was going to colour the holly berries in red but decided to leave it till last in case it wouldn't work in the end I decided my tag was busy enough.

I then stamped the Merry Christmas in gold and embossed using Liquid Platinum embossing powder, using the snowflakes again from the same set this time I stamped with versamark and then using WOW opaque bright white embossing powder.

Meanwhile I had stamped my crazy bird on white card couple of times and using red and brown inkpads and Mini Round Blending tools coloured the bird in robin colours. I cut out the tail and body also the eyes and beak.

This is the point things started to go downhill, I couldn't find the Simon Says Stamps Be Joyful set it had falling snow stamp on it even if the set had been retired I would have kept it just for that stamp so instead I used Simon Says Stamps Falling Snow Stencil with Dreamweaver Glossy White Embossing Paste.  Now I had green snow! Ok so its a bit better than yellow snow.

 I mat and layered the tag with white and a Kraft shaped tag and then stamped a crazy bird so that the legs and the ends of the curls will show up after I layer my robins body. (There was no way I was cutting curls out and the dies are still on my wish list).

I decided my tag was too plain and added some faux stitching using a white pen and to finish a bit of Doodlebug twine.

Of course in hindsight there was a couple of things I could have done to avoid green snow first my holly could have been embossed with clear powder or what I wanted to do in the first place which was stamp my snow and using white embossing powder. Saying that I'm still impressed with my tag.

So now it's YOUR turn.  Happy Crafting

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