12 Tags of Christmas

My friend Sandi is rocking the Christmas tags! She had me itching to make some of my own (and the perfect craft to squeeze in during naptime!).  I'm playing along with the 12 Tags of Christmas series and lifting Kittie's beautiful design! 

I loved the birch trees, silhouette ... here's my take using patterned paper, my Child's Year cricut cartridge and my new Season's Tweetings Lawn Fawn stamps:

I popped up the birdie in the tree, as well as the snow bank in the foreground. I paper pieced the blue and colored the beaks and red accessories for a pop of color.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great weekend.

Happy Holidays!

Tis the season.. I loved the inspiration over at the 12 Tags of Christmas post at the Ellen Hutson blog.  I loved Kelly's design:

And made this one using my Echo Park papers and sticker.

I love adding a handmade tag to our packages! :)

Happy Graduation!

Tis the season for the cap and gown! We are going to a graduation party this Saturday and I wanted to make a little something for the gift. When I saw the latest Sparks challenge at Paper Smooches I knew just the thing!

I decided to make a gift tag. This rainbow chevron paper is one of my favorites :)  

Can you believe I used 4 Paper Smooches sets?? I used the Woofers and Tweeters, Streamers, Sentiment Sampler AND Alphadot stamp sets! Whew!! :)

I love how the banner extends the width of the tag. I embossed the personalized name in white on black to give it that chalkboard feel since she is going to be a teacher :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Tags Galore :)

Happy December!!! Okay that just gave me a panic attack.. lol! I don't know why, a lot of our holiday shopping is done and I have a head start on our cards. I've also really loved making tags this year. 

I participated in a swap and created 7 each of these "traditional" style ones. I really love making rosettes!

.. and I made 7 each of these "vintage" ones. They are not my normal style, but was nice to step out of my box. I used K and Company embellishments, lace, and my Victorian embossing folder.

On Cyber Monday, I placed an order at A Cherry on Top and bought this elegant reindeer stamp from We R Memory Keepers. I had to use him on a tag right away (which were cut with Elegant Edges cricut cart)

Sorry for the terrible picture! Late night crafting at it's best. ;)

Then, of course, there was this special tag I made from my hubby. Couldn't resist sharing him again.. haha!

Stay tuned for more handmade holiday fun ;)

Owl I Want For Christmas :)

I'm so smitten with the "Winter Owl" stamp set from Lawn Fawn! You can see the fall card I used the owl on HERE. Today, I wanted to incorporate the holiday sentiment and make a tag for one of my hubby's gifts.

I cut the scalloped heart and layers from the Sweethearts cricut cartridge at 4.5" as my tag base and I love how it turned out!

ACK! Isn't it so cute. I have red/white wrapping paper that will really make it pop. I did some reverse stamping with owl to make another owl facing the opposite direction. Very easy to do, with a little patience ;) They are each paper pieced with grey/kraft cardstock and red/green patterned papers. You know I couldn't resist adding googly eyes!

Another thing that took a little bit of patience, but SO easy - was masking the sentiment so I could stamp it out horizontally under my little owl sweethearts. The finishing touch was adding the itty bitty heart stamp to the centers of the snowflake background.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today! Hope you had a wonderful holiday.. I'm ready to pack away the fall decorations and start singing carols ;)

I'm sharing my tag at the Lawnscaping Challenge



and at Paper Issues - Holiday Happy theme  :)

Good morning ! Today is my day to share a project on the Quick Quotes blog :) This month we are featuring our Powder Puff Chalk Inks! One of my favorite things about these inks is you can customize just about anything to coordinate with your Quick Quotes projects!

Exhibit A ;)

Using my "splat mat", I inked a plain white doily with our Mocha Mama Powder Puff Chalk Ink (a MUST have). These inks are the perfect size for easy handling, yet so juicy and rich you can cover A LOT of real estate. Instant transformation!

Now my "Plain Jane" white doily is a all dressed up and a perfect match for the Copper Kettle collection. Right now, I'm hooked on making tags :) I love adding these to gifts, layouts, cards, and well... anything!

I covered my tag with the Copper Kettle 200 patterned paper, inking the edges with the same Mocha Mama ink. I layered my doily in the bottom right corner.

Next, I added my sentiment, fussy cut from the Copper Kettle 500 phrases paper. Bling was the finishing touch to bring this tag together!

What have you altered with inks??

Happy inking!

 

Quick Quotes Supplies:

* Copper Kettle collection

* Copper Kettle 200 (sheet music)

* Copper Kettle 500 (sentiment)

* Mocha Mama Powderpuff Chalk Ink

April Showers Bring..

That's our next challenge at The Paper Variety!! :)

Our prize for this week is an awesome "kit" put together by TPV, featuring Authentique's "Journey" papers, embellies, and extras.

I made these tags for Mother's Day using my "Flower Shoppe" cricut cartridge. They measure 4 1/2" tall (plus the ribbon ;)

All papers are My Minds Eye. I adore how they turned out! I think I'll be making more tags in the future :)

Hop over the The Paper Variety over the next two weeks to see what the rest of the design team created and link up your own handmade flower projects!

Tag, You're it!! :)

Good morning! 

Welcome to another "This to That Tuesday Challenge" at The Digi Bistro!!  The challenge this week is to create a Halloween tag! And Cher has just added an awesome tag set to the TDB store :)

I used one of those fabulous tags on this duo:

I used all Studio G product, which I picked up at my local craft store. White embossing on patterned paper? Daring! But I like it ;)

Is that monster not the CUTEST? He's a sneak peek file from an upcoming set releasing Friday, September 9th called "Pick Your Poison".

Until then, treat yourself to Halloween Town - in store now :)

Visit the Halloween tag challenge at Cher's Studio. Check out what the rest of the design team created and enter to win.  The prize this week is a set of your choice from the Digi Bistro AND a Basic Grey fall card it kit!!

Stay connected with all things Digi Bistro on our facebook page ;)

Have a great day!