Welcome back and Nancy, here. With the very cold temperatures and snow on the ground, the feeling of winter and Christmas inspired me to paper craft today. I am showcasing the Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamp - Department Store stamp set along with the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Christmas Botanical which is a packet of chipboard poinsettias, holly leaves and berries, pine trees, wreaths, pine branches, and cards with various images of poinsettias, holly leaves and berries that you will definitely want in your stash this year to start on your Christmas cards. The Department Store stamp set has beautiful detailed wreath and bell stamps along with other gorgeous other Holiday stamps for this year's Christmas cards. You can get all of the new Holiday crafting goodies available at The Rubber Buggy.

I stamped the bell and wreath using the Ranger Ground Espresso ink on a stamping platform which I had to reink the stamp about 4 times before getting the imprint and colored with colored pencils and Copic Markers. I learned a new technique that I haven't used but to leave the stamp and paper in the stamping platform after inking the stamps, color the image and reink the stamp and stamp it again on the paper for that crisy look which coloring tends to fade out.

I had a few throw aways at first before getting the coloring done with my satisfaction. You can fussy cut the wreath and bell or use your Brother's Scan and Cut to cut these out. I did a little molding using the Sizzix Making Tool with mat on the back of the wreath and bell and glued with Beacon 3-n-1 Advanced glue just the edges on the wreath and bells before adhereing to the tags to get a 3D look rather than a flat appearance that brought out the look more. I used glue to adhere the chipboard of the Ciao Bella Christmas Vibes 12 x 12 Collection Pad to each tag of poinsettis and holly leaves.

I sponged on with a sponging brush the Ranger Ground Espresso and Ranger Gathered Twigs ink on cream cardstock and then stamped the image with Ranger Ground Espresso ink. I added the Season's Greeting banner from the Spellbinder Winter White Sentiments package. This Winter Wonderland Printed Die Cut Sentiments are from the Winter Wonderland Collection. The set of 146 die cut shapes is full of words and expressions of the season.

I created the tags using the gorgeous wood pattern cardstock in the Ciao Bella Christmas Vibes 12 x 12 Collection Pad. I stamped the Merry Christmas with white ink and used the NUVO Detailed White embossing powder for added depthness of white on red cardstock. I added a deep red seam binding ribbon behind the label using the 1/2" wide Scor-tape.