Day 10 - T!m Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas

Day 10 ---- you would think that it would start getting easier???  NSM (as Mario would answer)
I really had to dig deep into the "how on earth am I going to do this??" pit, I obviously don't own the snowman die, however I do own the snowman & snowflake texture fade embossing folder (remember, I won it on T!m's Blog back in August/September).  To come up with a close similarity to todays tag I ran grunge paper and grunge board thru my cuttlebug with the snowman folder, then went to work with my scissors.  I was feeling really good about how it was all coming together, got my grunge on with the sandpaper, painting, and inking.  Then reality hit when I placed Mr. Snowman here onto the tag, WTF - he shrunk!!!  I am assuming (and we know what happens when I ass u me) that the embossed snowman and the die cut snowman are NOT the same size???
Well, at this point 1:10am Sat morn I had no choice but to finish as started....
I also ran into problems with the washers, as in, I have none....so, I cut out some 1/2" circles of metal duct tape, it was as close as I could get.
I ran into some scheduling conflicts today as in my son and his finance came in this afternoon from OKC, OK we were not expecting him until late in the night tonight, but NO a phone call at 10am informed me that he was 2 hours away!!  YIKES!!!!  Since I had spent the better part of the last 10 days playing in the loft (any guesses as to why???) I had to put on my Super-Mom cape and get to work, in hyper-drive!
Tomorrow, I don't think will be any easier, as we will still have company and I am hosting a Christmas open house here at our home.... (please, wish me luck).
With all that being laid out as my, "big fat excuse" as to why todays tag looks like yucko, I am still having fun, still learning, and still creating.
Thank you for stopping into check out my life adventure, until tomorrow...

~Jill