12 tags of Christmas - day 4

Today Tim wants us to make jewelry, in particular a shaker box shaped like a house, and some charms to complement it. In this particular case, the tag itself is just a fancy background.



I didn't have the stuff to make Tim's skaker box, so a spent all morning figuring out how to make my own. I ended up using the faux chipoard technique to make the housing. If I had been a little smarter, I would have stamped the back of the shaker, but I had already glued it in place, and it was a lot of cutting and hole punching to make that little box, so I wasn't going to start over. I just popped a little tree sequin back there, filled it with microbeads, and topped it with some waste acetate and a layer of cardboard colored with my red metallic leafing pen. The roof was done with silver EP on cardstock, then cut and wrapped around. I made a gold star to fill the gap between the roof and the shaker.

I had lots of red beads and wire out, because I have been making charms and jewelry, so that was really one of the easier parts of the project, and I ended up making a faux chipboard bead to match the star on the house. The safety pin is straight from Tim - the idea is that you can remove the house and charms and wear them or use them as ornaments.

I also took another cue from Tim - I oversaturated my photo to bring out the color.