Christmas in the bank 1st installment

Hi, I saw a great challenge over at Sandi's Maximum Embellishment blog for Christmas in the Bank.  On the 12th of each month she will share some ideas and offer a challenge to motivate us in building our holiday stash and having our own CHRISTMAS IN THE BANK when December rolls around.  I am of course late and far behind but I did come in late and I do intend to catch up, this is 1 of the 12 tags required for the January 12th challenge.  I don't make tags so the first challenge caught me totally off guard, but I really wanted to challenge myself to make this.  In all fairness, Sandi said not to stress about these and we can make them as simple as we like, but if I were going to do this I wanted to at least do 1 of the 12 tags right!  The image and paper are from Gecko Galz ( Old Fashioned Christmas image and Grandma's House Paper collection).  I used some Ranger spray on the tag, embossed the paper and added some Inka Gold from Flying Unicorn.  A die cut frame and string and lace finish this off.  

I cheated on the last tags, I am using some pre made tags from Gecko Galz , I know, no shame in that as long as I actually made 1 of them all by myself right?  Well I did get a little carried away with the Gecko Galz pre made tags and I really had some fun.  These are what I came up with.

This is my favorite, the spray was a clearance item I grabbed from Flying Unicorn, I added a lot of Stickles to everywhere (the spray had the glitter already on it.  Papers and image are Gecko Galz.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag and Old Fashioned Christmas image with distress ink and Glimmer mist.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag and I added 2 the light and dark blue Stickles, stars were in my stash.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag with flocking, distress ink and Stickles.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag and Old Fashioned Christmas image with distress ink.

 Fussy cut a Gecko Galz Old Fashioned Christmas image and added some ribbon.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag, distress ink and lots of Stickles, this is beautiful IRL with all the Stickles.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag, Stickles on the edge and some Dollar Treasure bangles.

Gecko Galz pre printed tag with some distress ink.

Sandi has already begun the 2nd Christmas in the Bank challenge .  We will be doing 6 Gift card holders (Yay, I know how to do those!) so I hope to get those done shortly.  I would love to see you join us for Christmas in the Bank.  Thanks for looking.  ~Diane

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