Santa in Neutral Colors?

I'm switching back to Ellen Hutson's Classroom tags with a feminine twist.  Sharon Harnist created a standard Santa in red and green, accented with a poinsettia and pretty green trim.  Because I loved the white-on-white first tag, I've been thinking how I might "neutralize" the colors of Christmas just a little.   White on white wouldn't work well with a Santa stamp, so I chose light-colored watercolor markers to ink Tim's Santa stamp, misting the inked stamp with Glimmer Mist Iridescent Gold.   The flower isn't a poinsettia, but it continues the neutral tones.  That cute little gold bell and the bow are from a cheap Christmas earring.

'Tis the Season for Tags

It's December, so all sorts of tag challenges are on various blogs and sites.   Ellen Hutson creates her 12 Tags of Christmas with a feminine twist.  Tag No. 1 is "White on White." Mine is "White and Pearls."

That  pine cone die has caused me so much trouble.   I want a pine cone and I get a rose; I want a rose and I get a pine cone. I managed to make both.  (The center "rose" is yellow because I scorched the embossing powder with the heat gun.  They are white IRL.)    Ellen has a beautiful tulle wreath with baubles, but I substituted a half-circle of lacy trim, put together with hot glue.  The tag itself was embossed in a folder, rubbed with embossing ink and heat-embossed with holographic embossing powder.   The leaves of the pine cone die were cut of  Silk Silver Lustre from Paper Temptress.  Beaded trim finishes off the bottom of the tag.   (By midnight, I had strings of hot glue flying everywhere. When my husband leaves for work at 5:30 in the morning, the Big Shot, extra leaves, and hot glue gun will still be on the coffee table and end table near my computer.)