Guest designer - Michelle Frisby

A big hello from the bottom of the world. Greetings to everyone, all the way from New Zealand.

I'm more than a little excited to have been asked to guest design using the most gorgeous products from the Petaloo team. What an honour.

Now I know that the build up to Christmas is more than a little hectic, major understatement really, but now that Christmas has been and gone it's time to kick back and relax a little and hopefully you will find time just for yourself to be a little creative.

Before you put all those Christmas crafting goodies away, it just might be time to think about making a few more tags and cards and tuck them away, for dare I say it, next year.

I love making tags and cards.

Let me share a tag or two or three.

Using Authentique's "Believe" collection I whipped up these tags.

I cut myself three pieces of Kraft cardstock - 3" in length and 2" wide and covered them using a paper from the Believe 6x6 paper pad.

I then ran a green ink pad around the edges.

Using a variety of leaf dies I cut out a few pieces of foliage.

I have then put together embellishment clusters, almost like building a topper together using paper foliage, gorgeous berry clusters, Darjeeling flowers, a little muslin [cheesecloth] and some Christmas baubles.

Petaloo products used :

Darjeeling Mini Mix x 8 - Teastained Greens

Botanica Berry Clusters - red/green/burgundy

Sugared Berry Clusters

Authentique products used :

'Adorn' 12x12 paper

'Petite type' alpha stickers

'Details' 12x12 cardstock stickers

6x6 bundle

Other products used :

Variety of metal dies, ribbon lace, muslin, Christmas baubles, bell, string, pine cones and Aleene's True Snow, ink, cardstock, raffia

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Now for a 6"x6" card ...

The base cardstock - cut a piece of 12" x 6" cardstock and score in half.

Cut a piece of patterned paper slightly smaller than 6"x6" and lightly distress edges and randomly apply True Snow to the edges. Once dry adhere to cardstock.

Cut a strip of white cardstock 6" x 1" and adhere approximately an inch up from the bottom of your card. Cut a strip of the same patterned paper that you have used for the background and adhere to the white cardstock strip.

Cut out a variety of Christmas foliage using a mix of cardstock and patterned paper.

Adhere some berry cluster leaves and baubles on each side of your card, add a piece of corrugated card [pull apart that last packaging box that you received full of scrapping goodies - this is brilliant to use to help add height to your layering] and then layer and build up your foliage centre piece - I've also used a candle die [cut out twice] and layered them slightly askew of one and other, before centering and topping off the embellishment cluster with a gorgeous Petaloo flower and I've also tucked under one of the wee twine bows that I have removed from one of my berry clusters ... these are fabulous for pulling apart, making them go just that little bit further.

Adhere the 'Merry Christmas' paper die cut to the top right hand side of the card.

To finish, randomly apply 'True Snow' to give your card that 'snow' look.