Today I’m over at Country View Challenges sharing my second tag for November’s Tags Only challenge, which I’m delighted to be hosting this month.

For this Christmasy festive tag, I used another MDF tag by Creative Expressions covering it with Driftwood acrylic paint by DecoArt. Then I used one of my favourite techniques to create a wood effect background using Distress Inks and matte gel medium. I did this by dragging Frayed Burlap, Crushed Corduroy and Tea Dye Distress Ink pads vertically down the tag and applying matte gel medium over the top keeping the brush strokes vertical; the gel medium dragged the ink down the tag to give a wood grain effect. Next I die cut the flowers from different colours of Tim Holtz Kraft Cardstock – Classic using a Floral Edge Sizzix Thinlits set and pieced them together. I added the “Joyful” wording from a Christmas Sticker book by Tim Holtz and I tied on some white paper twine, red and green ribbons which finished the tag.
I hope you are inspired to join our Tags Only challenge over at Country View Challenges too, if you do, you’ll have two chances to win a £20 voucher to use on the Country View Crafts.

Here are some of the materials that I used to create the tag from Country View Crafts.
I hope that you are staying safe and well!
Thanks for joining me today! If you have any questions or comments, I would love to hear from you.
Challenges
As well as Country View Challenges , I’m pleased to be joining the following challenges:
Paperbabe Stamps and their #179 – Anything Goes challenge with my Joyful tag.
MIUCB #61 – Anything Goes + Optional Open Technique over at Mix It Up Challenge Blog with my favourite wood grain effect technique that I used on this tag.
Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #26 where Anything Christmas Goes with my festive Christmas tag.
Fabulous tag, Jo, happy and joyful! Love the pretty flowerss. Have a great day, hugs, Valerie
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So very pretty. Lucky recipient of that gift
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Absolutely gorgeous! I love the wood-look background, and those floral dies are fabulous! Just an all-around pretty tag!
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Great holiday tag Jo. I like the wood styled background. That is a super technique you used. I am going to give this a try. Hope November is treating you well. hugs-Erika
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It sure looks festive and joyful! Sadly I reckon again no Christmas gifts for the Nieces again and hence no tags…
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Very pretty tag, love the ‘nature’ look!! Thank you for joining our challenge at Peace On Earth!
Diane POE CO-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Peace On Earth}
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Such a stunning tag Jo! Really love the wood-grain background and festive look with the dies! Thanks for sharing this beauty! Have a lovely weekend!
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This is really lovely Jo, and such a great challenge. Take care and have a lovely weekend, Sue xx
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A gorgeous tag Jo! I love the woodgrain effect.
Happy November x
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Fabulous tag Jo! Loving these colours, Chrisx
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Beautiful Christmas tag, Jo!!! I love the wood background, great technique! Big hugs xx
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Great wood painting technique! Another fab tag Jo. x
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Your tag is amazing with these beautiful diecuts.
Lia DT POE
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This is beautiful! I love the woodgrain painting. Definitely will try this too.
Hugs
Evelyn
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