I made mine more feminine with the doily and flowers (a Prima set from several years ago). The letters I painted with Glimmer Glam. It's my first time using that, it's got great shine but I wish the brush were bigger/longer! 
I decided to use the felt snowflake and a calling card "SNOW" from Red Lead. Similar to yesterdays but I really like this. The holly leaves were covered in Rock Candy Stickles. And I sprayed the tag with Glimmer Mist Marshmallow.
I took this more figuratively then literally. I opted to make a fan-fold medallion to highlight my koi.
When I make a background with a spray and/or ink method, I will use a clean tag to "clean-up" any extra color on the mat. I did this background tag last week when I did the "mist" background.
I did a simple fan-fold medallion. This is two pieces of 12 x 1.5 - scored every 1/4 inch.
It's been a LONG time since I colored anything with Copics but I did do the gold fish.
One of the papers we used was Oriental Calligraphy paper. The best way to describe this is really stiff tissue paper. It's very thin but will hold up to lots of water. You can find it here on Fred's web page.
We used Adirondack Colorwash in a variety of strengths, but any color wash/mist will work. I used Glimmer Mist for this card. I chose 4 colors (Key Lime Pie, Sunflower, Turquoise Blue, and Tiger Lily) and started with the lightest and randomly sprayed on part of the paper.
Then I used several kitchen items as masks (penny sink mat, sushi mat, rubber shelf liner). Spraying other colors over the masks, flipping them over onto other sections, and making an "elegant mess".
Then I let it dry for a bit. You can use a heat gun to speed things up - I did to finish the drying.
24 hours before I started, I choose three Twinkling H2Os (Dreamsicle, Summer Breeze, Apple Blossom). I filled each pot up with water and let it sit. The water made the H2O's very "gloopy"...kinda like Elmers Glue.
In Fred's class he had little window template so you could figure out where in your sheet you wanted to cut. He has one on his web page - CROPPING TOOL TEMPLATE. There's also a short video. Note the PDF template does not have the marking holes.
He also has a template for the card base - the rectangle works perfectly with the template. As you can see this card would be perfect without any further embellishments. I choose to stamp the Stampin' Up geisha over the color block. Even my "sits on top of everything" Archival black wasn't 100% crisp.
I've been wanting to try the Tattered Angels CHALKBOARD Glimmer Mist, so I bought two bottles over the holidays - Evergreen and Strawberry Shortcake. I sprayed the tag with Evergreen and then placed a mask over that and sprayed with Strawberry Shortcake. The neat thing about the Chalkboard GM is that it's opaque, not transparent like the regular GM. So the colors do layer with out loosing much of their own color personality. I did sponge a little bit with Pine Needles.
A close-up of the top of the tag.
And in this shot I think you can see the white netting.
Coffee Filters? I have to say my first thought was DO I HAVE ANY COFFEE FILTERS? (remember - Diet Coke thru and thru). But I did find some in the back of the cabinet, lost and lonely.
Stamp background image on coffee filter with embossing ink. Heat set clear embossing powder.
Saturate the coffee filter with Glimmer Mist. Slowly dry with heat gun. Be sure not to burn the filter or re-melt the embossing powder. I found that setting it on another coffee filter to absorb some of the moisture helped.
Put the dry coffee filter between two pieces of typing paper and PRESS (don't iron) with a hot iron. I've tried this with a craft iron before but they don't get hot enough.
You should press until the embossing powder is soaked into the typing paper.
I cut a background sheet slightly bigger than the finished size and ran it thru my Xyron. If you don't have a sticker maker - just be sure to hit the edges of the paper with your adhesive.
Place your sticker sheet on the part of the filter you want to use. Trim the edges and finish your card.
Not wanting to repeat myself, I decided to take a different path. Tim's lesson was all about using the texture embossing plates and I had the snowman. I tired his stamping over the negative image to make it look like the snowflakes were behind the snowman. I played around with the sponging and used SNOW QUEEN Glimmer Mist for shine. I ended up putting Rock Candy Stickles on the snowman and outlining him with a white gel pen.
Yesterday, I visited my local stamp/scrapbook store. They had just gotten in this new glass glitter - YUMMY stuff! It's big and chunky. And looks amazing on the snowflake!
I've never heard of this brand but I'll be looking for their stuff in the future.
So here's my tag. How does it differ from Tim's? Well for one I don't have the wonky house die Tim used. But I did have the embossing folder. So I cut GrungeBoard "chunks" out in a "bird house" shape. You know - a rectangle and triangle roof. I followed most of his steps for coloring and adding "snow". I used the same glass glitter that I use on my Crystal Snowflakes. And a branch I pulled off my mom's aspen tree (sorry mom!)
I didn't have Tim's fence die, but I did buy Martha's Large Halloween fence. I just cut the bats off and it's a regular fence! I stuffed a little reindeer moss (I swear that's the name on the package). I didn't use Tim's technique for creating the ticket. I just stamped with Archival Coffee and sponged color on.
I tried dyeing my ribbon the same way Tim did but I just ended up with a blue ribbon (no color variations) and blue fingers! I added a small rusty snowflake charm to the ribbon.
Be safe tonight!!
I used a Copic marker to color the silk ribbon, which was white, to match the card.
Here's Jessica and "Julian" in Miami recently.
But I didn't take into consideration the sentiment before I did the masking work. The area under the mask was sponged with Distress Ink Spun Sugar, then I laid the mask down and sponged Worn Lipstick. With the mask still on, I sprayed Glimmer Mist and sponged a bit with Broken China.
The panel under the picture is tag with the top cut off. I really like how the Distress Inks and Glimmer Mist work with a tag. I think it's the tag finish. Anyway. The tag was distressed with different brown Glimmer Mists and brown Distress Inks. Then I over-stamped with some of the smaller images from Artistic Outpost's PARIS EXPOSITION. The image is also from that set. The faces were colored with Copics and the sky was water colored. It seemed unfinished to me until I stamped the "postmark" with red ink.
For the background I used Tim Holtz letter masks to cover a piece of white paper. Then I sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I blotted with another piece of paper - which came out very cool, I'll use it for a background on another card later. Then I hit it with the heat gun. I don't know what I was thinking - guess what? The letters melt! DUH! (grin) But when I pealed of the rest it was a great look. I sprayed some Wheatfield over the letters to tone down the white letters. The image is an old Stampin Up! set. And I ripped a page from an old French book I have. I also sprayed some Wheatfields on that and then gently rubbed it.
This background was done by rubbing the Pink Sherbet Dabber up/down the right side. Then I sprayed the other side with S.W.A.K. Glimmer mist. The green targets are the Citrus Dabber just lightly touching the tag and rolled. Below the dress I stamped Hero Arts SWIRL FRAME "inked" with Raspberry Dabber. The dress is Stampington & Co AUTHENTIC PARTY stamped on the new Cosmo Cricket DeLovely paper. "SPUNK" is a Basic Grey rub-on.
I think this is my favorite of the three. Again I rubbed the Pink Sherbet Dabber on the tag. Then I lightly rubbed the Raspberry Dabber along the edge. And sprayed with Key Lime Pie Glimmer Mist. And out came my mini bubble wrap again with Citrus Dabber. The large circles are a lid. The Hampton Art SMALL FACE FRAME was done on white paper in Archival Black. She looks like a Geisha to me. The lip and iris were colored with Copics (RV06 & YG13) and covered with Crystal Effects. The wings are Grungeboard covered with Pink Sherbet Dabber and Magenta Stickles.
This background is layered Glimmer Mist. Spray on a Teflon sheet and smooshed. Then dried with the heat gun. Repeat for layer after layer. Then more bubble wrap in Citrus Dabber. Finally I used Hero Arts LE LETTER stamp "inked" with the Pink Sherbet Dabber. The Stampendous RUFFLED BLOOM was also stamped on the same paper as the dress. Magenta Stickles and green glitter pen.
The butterfly in the corner is the new Memory Box Damask Butterfly stamped on shrink plastic and heated down to size. TIP: While the shrink plastic is still hot flatten it with a clear acrylic block. The rolled edges will lay down. I used the Citrus Dabber to color the back.
So today I started with a white tag, embossed it with clear EP and then spritzed with Glimmer Mist. After it had dried I placed the tag between two sheets of typing paper and ironed off the embossing powder. Then I restamped with the bubble wrap and used a glittery EP powder (you can see it at the bottom of the tag). 
Tag Tuesday's challenge this week is GLITTER. I stamped this little CRAFTY SECRETS mermaid with Archival and then did a Technique Junkies MARKER WASH on the mermaid and shells. After that was dry I went back with a glue pen and glitter. (LOVE THE GLITTER!) I tried to get a picture of all that shiny goodness but it's the wrong time of day. Trust me - WHOLE TAG JUST SPARKLES!
Here you can see the difference in size between the regular sized bubble wrap and the mini. Fortunately, I still have LOTS and LOTS of the mini left for other projects. Don't you love how the wrinkles in the bubble wrap translate on to the background?