Toy Soldier

Happy hump day my friends.

Hope you're keeping warm, it's freezing here, blech!

Today I'm showing you the toy soldier tag I made into a candy cane holder.

I think these would make cute little gifts.

The first thing I did was heat emboss the toy soldier from Tim Holtz Collection Christmas Blueprint stamp set. I inked the stamp with VersaMark, poured on white embossing powder and heat set it. Next, I added Distress Festive Berries and Evergreen Bough ink with my blending tool. I wiped the white soldier a bit to remove the ink.

To make the water spots I sprayed water in my hand and flicked it onto the tag and dried it with my heat tool. I scored the tag, folded it and put on a piece of black cardstock that was die cut with Alterations Vintage Lace die on the front and wrapped it around to the back and adhered it.

I put red Kaiser Rhinestones on the lace and soldiers hat. I ran some white seam binding over the Evergreen Bough ink pad for matching ribbon.

Finally, I die cut the soldier with Alterations Toy Soldier die, using Coredinations cardstock.

Isn't he the cutest thing? I had to have him the minute I saw him!

I put him in the tag with foam dots.

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Well, that's it. When you're doing your shopping at the Emporium don't forget to use my coupon code IEIRISGARDEN for 10% off!

 Hope you enjoyed the tag, thanks for looking!