Monday, December 12, 2011

BBTB2 Winter Frolic Tag

It's time for a new challenge at BBTB2 after our Thanksgiving break.  This week's challenge was picked by sweet Design Team Sister Lori.  She asked us to make a tag from the Winter Frolic cartridge.  I know this looks like a tag but it's actually a card.  I used my Gypsy to weld two tag shadows together into a card.  I used the tag on the same key as this cute little reindeer image (first row, key 9).  This card has a height of 5".  I found this adorable sentiment stamp in the dollar bin at Michael's and just knew it would be perfect to pair with a reindeer image from any Cricut cartridge.  After making the shaped card from kraft cardstock I cut the tag from white cardstock and used the hide contours feature on the Gypsy to take out the tag hole at the top.  I cut my reindeer at 2.5" and assembled all his layers then placed him at the top of the tag.  I added a strip of a scrap of Christmas paper from my Best Creations Merry Christmas 6x6 paper pack and then stamped the sentiment below it.  I was sure pleased with how this turned out.  I can check one more card off my list now.  I'm way behind.  We've been enjoying our time in Florida so much and have been very busy.  When we arrived down here the first thing we did was take our rental agreement over to DisneyWorld and got ourselves an annual pass.  We have our RV in a campground that is only about 30 minutes away from DisneyWorld.  We've made several trips there now.  I swear, I'm worse than a kid and I could just live at the Magic Kingdom.  So I've been having a hard time getting into Christmas mode because I just feel like I'm on vacation in a warm, sunny place.  Wearing shorts and basking in the sunshine makes it hard to think Christmas.  I thought I'd share this photo we took the other day while visiting the Disney Studios.  I thought it was funny to see the big Christmas tree with the palm trees swaying in the background. 

Here's a pretty picture I took the night we were at the Magic Kingdom for Mickey's Magical Christmas.  The castle was all lit up with thousands of lights and looked like and ice sculpture.  It was so beautiful.
I hope you'll have time to join our tag challenge this week.  Remember if you don't have the Winter Frolic cartridge you can use a tag from any other cartridge, but you must make a new project specifically for this challenge. Hopefully, you've got your shopping all done and are getting those presents wrapped and you'll need some tags to put on the packages.  Happy Crafting!!!

7 comments:

girlia said...

love your tag card!

Beckie said...

Great tag. Super cute.

I LOVE Disney world.

Be Blessed, Beckie

DonnaMundinger said...

I love your idea of making the tag into a card and the reindeer and sentiment are just adorable! Looks like you're having a fab time in FLA. Your pix are just magical. xxD

GiuliaG. said...

Love your tag, Jeri. Your reindeer is adorable.

Lori1brat said...

Jeri - I LOVE that we chose the same reindeer for our project this week ! I couldn't believe it when I went to post my tag ! YES - great minds think alike ! DARLING card ! :-)

**Treefrog** said...

Love your tag Jeri and don't feel bad I'm way behind too, lol! And I don't even have the fun excuse of being at Disney! I'm in envy of you, I grew up in Calif. and spent the majority of my life at Disneyland (had friends and family that worked there so never had to pay to get in!) ALWAY went at Christmas time too. I totally miss it and we want to take McCade to Disney World some time soon so I totally understand the feeling like a kid part, I would too, so go ahead and have a blast, I wish I was there! Say Hey to Mickey and Minnie for me, LOL!!!
((Hugs)) Theresa

shelly said...

jeri this is really a cute idea the deer is so adorable :) love the red and Kraft together . take care :) hugs,shelly