Friday, December 17, 2010

Colossal to-do list avoidance

What do you do when your kids will be home in three hours (early release) for the holidays and your to-do list is a mile long? Why, make more tags, of course! Sad to say, when my mountain of tasks gets overwhelming, I'm pretty good at finding something really fun but not-on-the list to do...



Tim's original day 5 tag is here. I really love the enamel look of the numbers. Fun technique. I didn't have the same Santa, holly, or sentiment stamps but I think it works. I used some fabric flowers and yellow brads instead of the Idealogy foliage.




The original day 6 can be found here. Tim's video explanations are great! I did struggle with this one trying to get the stamped texture fade image to look right - Tim's looked so nice and crisp and mine was kind of smeared. I tried it a few times (and now have several tags with trees and swirls) but could never get it to come out any clearer.

I was lacking in the aqua paint department and the closest thing I could find was some Claudine Helmuth teal, mixed with white. Mine is pretty dark - I like Tim's better. 


I didn't have any word sticks, so I used a rectangular fragment, drilled a hole (learned my lesson from day 4 tag when I cracked my fragment - the craft pick doesn't work so well on these. My Fiskars craft drill worked like a charm!) and stamped WISH with archival ink and teeny tiny stamps. My star is paper - I had already used the ONE star that comes in the adornments package on tag #1.

And now, seriously, must tackle that to-do list!

7 comments:

Sabr said...

Don't think of it as avoidance - think of all the things you are accomplishing instead! I'm in the same boat. Love your tags!!

Christa said...

Those are beautiful and a great avoidance technique!

lisa truesdell said...

heehee, i like how you think!

Denise said...

HA HA! You and I could be twins. When my to do list is overwhelming I do the same. In regard to your tags, I think you are giving Tim a run for his money. You are doing an awesome job!

Keshet said...

These came out wonderful!

Sasha Farina said...

we have the same talent!! yay! lol..

NEEDLEWINGS said...

lovely tags! Love all of the detail:)