The 12 Tags of Christmas, Day 10

I was thrilled when I saw Tim's tag this morning.  It involves metal, and thanks to my friend Lori, I recently scored some when Ten Seconds Studio was having a 50% off sale.
This is Tim's gorgeous creation:

The words are formed by gluing grungeboard letters and shapes to the tag, covering them with a thin metal sheet, then using a paper stump to work around the letters and shapes until they pop.  Tim used pieces from the mini set, which I don't have, so my letters are larger.  All that means is I had room for one less word.

This is how mine came out:

Tim used the very thin metal that comes with an adhesive backing.  I don't have that, so I used a regular sheet of metal (which I suspect is a wee bit thicker) and sticky tape on the back.  It took a bit of elbow grease to get the letters to stand out, but I think it worked well.

Alcohol inks are applied to the tag in sections.  Tim used the refillable pens, but I only have one, so I dabbed on the colors with a piece of felt.  Then a light sanding across the tops, followed by a very light coat of black paint, which was almost immediately wiped off and also sanded a bit.

To accent the sections, the Tiny Attacher was used as though the staples were hand sewn stitches.  Some straight, some cross stitches, some zig zag.  Very cool.

Tim added a metal snowflake; I used his technique of painting foliage pieces to resemble a poinsettia and placed that on the bottom:

I glued a snowflake on my tag before adding the metal, and just had to put a little bling in the center.  You can also see the staple "stitches" in this close up:

Are we really up to Tag 10?  Only two to go?  How sad I'll be!