Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Tag Tuesday - Winter

I didn't expect this theme on Louise's blog this afternoon as I was preparing myself to use butterflies and lovely light colors for the Spring! It is so soft and warm here. But that is often the case in the South of France and it can turn cold again.



I used part of a stamp from Sugar Lump Studios, of children on a sledge in the snow, using tea-dye distress ink. I decorated the outside of the tag with different winter foliage stamps in peeled paint and shabby shutters distress ink and used a sentiment that Louise sent me a while ago. It is one of my favorite words ' JOY' - and I always interpret it as the JOY of the Lord, because that is a precious thing to have. I have e-mail contact with a friend in Holland and we have decided to send each other joy-reports - it is a great reminder of everything we can be thankful for! So much can happen in just a week!

 I made this one very quickly before I cleaned and put the stamps away - I have a little head-start for next year Christmas now.

26 comments:

  1. Your tag is as always so beautiful and feminine. I like the idea of emailing joy reports. So often our emails have negative things in them. BTW, we woke up to a beautiful landscape of ice-coated trees and bushes. Very wintry indeed.

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  2. Ah, yes, I am also a big fan of Joy!! And I do love your tag!

    Rebecca

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  3. I didn´t expect a winther theme and i am so tired of snow. The last two months we have so much snow in Denmark.

    Love your warm winter tag. Great use of leaf stamps.

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  4. This is gorgeous and it's wonderful to see how this turned out using distress ink for stamping. I rarely use them for inking up my stamps but looking at this I certainly will give it a try. Gorgeous tag; the sentiment speaks to my heart...

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  5. This is gorgeous! I love your tag!!
    Blessings to you,
    Cindy

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  6. Wonderful tag no matter what the season.....I was actually GLAD to see winter as the theme as winter for me has several months to go even though the last week was unseasonably WARM for this time of year but have no fear....the abominable snowman will return before April gets here that is for sure!!

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  7. A lovely tag Jacqueline, I put all my Christmas stuff away so will have to dig some of it out again. We had frost again this morning and its freezing again tonight !

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  8. I havent been over to see the new challenge yet.
    pretty tag and a great head start for next year. I like your idea of sending JOY reports!
    We all need a little more Joy in our lives :0)

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  9. Lovely post today Jacqueline. You did a great job with the Tag Tuesday challenge. It is a lovely tag. Wishing you JOY all year.

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  10. It is a very nice one, Jacqueline, I like it!
    Have a joyful day! Greetings, Judith

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  11. So pretty and clever to make a second tag while your supplies were still out. Lynne M

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  12. Very pretty! I love the tiny little accent with the white flower and red pearl, perfect!

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  13. The tag is so pretty! What a great idea to share your joy report with a friend. So good to focus on something positive instead of all the negativity in this world. I might steal your idea ;)

    Rachel

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  14. Beautiful tags, love the green background.

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  15. This one is beautiful Jacqueline! I love the script for the sentiment, so beautiful and imperfect! Beautiful colour combination too!

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  16. Jacqueline, you get extra credit this week for creating your lovely tag when not being inspired by winter weather:):)

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  17. Beautiful tag, Jacqueline...wintery yet warm.

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  18. Wonderful tag! Love the stamps you used!

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  19. This is so pretty! My favorite part is how the foliage turned out.

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  20. Beautiful tag. How lucky you are to be some where with spring like weather already. I envy that!

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  21. Beautiful! Love the image and the background is so pretty. Love that you create JOY reports what a great way to be thankful for the week that you have had.

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  22. Both tags are very beautiful. I like the idea of sending joy reports to each other.

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  23. What a wonderful Tag.. With such a wonderful word "JOY" I love it!

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  24. Delicate and beautiful, Jacqueline!

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