My Favorite Things Christmas tag collection

Hello everyone, I hope you had a good weekend and are ready to dive into another week. I had a busy time with attending a conference, hosting a family dinner for my daughter's birthday and having my 15-month-old granddaughter over for a sleepover. Now there's a misnomer - Alice hasn't quite got the hang of the whole sleepover idea and thinks it should be a playover, so sleep was in short supply lol! Anyway, welcome to the March Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

As always, we are an anything Christmas goes challenge but our optional twist this time is 'tag'. I had a fun time making a collection of tags that can either be attached to gifts or be the focal point on some Christmas cards.

I used tags from the My Favorite Things Tag-builder Blueprints 2 and 6 sets

along with stamps from the MFT Gift Tag Greetings and Santa's Elves.

I also used the Clearly Besotted Merry Little Christmas set and the

Stampin' Up Merriest Wishes set.

I actually made some repeats as well so I have lots of tags to keep me going for ages!

You'll find out how our talented DT interpreted the challenge over on the Happy Little Stampers Christmas blog, and if you decide to join us, you can link up your entries over there. I'm off for a quick nap to try and replace some lost zzzzzzzzzs

I'd like to play along at

12 Months of Christmas #51 anything goes

Alphabet Challenge  Y is for yarn, string or twine

Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #186 - tag you're it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink booties

Hello all and welcome to the new challenge over at Simply Create Too

and this time we want you to show us anything but a card.

I want to share some little booties and tag I made for my little Grandaughter, Alice. First up is the tag:-

1) Die cut a tag using the Papertrey Ink Quilted die and cut a circle aperture in some masking paper. Place the mask on the tag and sponge on some blue and green Distress Oxide inks. Stamp some grass at the bottom.

2) Die cut and stamp the baby clothes and washing line using the PTI Hanging Out stamp and die set, and place them on the tag.

3) Die cut the little banner, and stamp the sentiment in Versamark ink and emboss with white EP. Finish off by adding a bow at the top.

1) For the booties, I used the Papertrey Ink Bootie dies and cut them out of bright coloured felt.

2) I used embroidery thread and hand stitched them following the instructions on this video by Erin Lincoln

There is lots of inspiration over at the SCT blog and I can't wait to see what you come up with for this challenge. So many cardmakers enjoy other crafts too, so this is a great opportunity to share what other things you make.

I'd like to play along at

Craftaholics R US Challenge #18   - baby

Card Mani Challenge #104 - anything but a card



Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

Crafter's Companion and Paper Smooches Christmas Penguin tag

Hello and welcome to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge. Anything Christmas goes for this challenge but each month we have a fun twist to make it more fun, and this time the twist is 'tag'.

Our winner for the challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

As I sit writing this, I can hear fireworks going off for bonfire celebrations and I can't believe that we only have one more Christmas Challenge left before the big day. Where has this year gone?

I came up with this tag

1) I used a paper trimmer to cut a tag shape from kraft card and used a star stencil and some glitter paste to add stars along 2 of the edges.

2) While the paste was drying, I die cut the Crafter's Companion Cute Christmas Penguin and coloured the parts before assembling him.

3) I die cut the Paper Smooches Merry Christmas die twice and stacked it to give it a little more 

structure.

4) I cut another slightly larger tag from red card, placed the kraft tag on top of it and cut a hole through both of them before adding some ribbon to tie them together.

5) To finish off, I added the penguin and greeting to the tag and tied a little white bow around the ribbon.

I love this cute penguin and can see that I'll be pulling him out again soon. You'll find lots of inspiration over on the HLS Christmas Challenge blog, and I hope you'll join in with us this time. If you are anything like me, you'll be needing lots of tags at this time of year but remember anything Christmas goes!

I'd like to play at

Crafty Friends Challenge #70 - Christmas

Jingle Belles Challenge - Animals

Craft Rocket Challenge #43 - Christmas is Coming

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Penny Black feLINE, and Papertrey Ink cat gift tag

Hi there and welcome to the November Watercolour Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers. We are an anything goes as long as it's watercolour challenge, but each month we have an optional twist that you can join in with to make it more fun. The twist this time is 'tag'

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

 I came up with this tag

1) Take a piece of watercolour card and brush on some watercolour paint in blues and greens. I used Gansai Tambi paints.

2) When the card is dry, die cut a tag from it using the Papertrey Ink Tag Sale: Quilted die. Cut the tag again from some silver mirri card.

3) Stamp the sentiment from PTI Summer Sweetness stamp set in the lower right-hand corner of the tag using Onyx Black Versafine ink.

4) Die cut the feLINE die from Penny Black using watercolour card, paint each cat with watercolour paint and when it is dry, snip the cats out of the frame.

5) Cut a thin strip of mirri card and stick it on the tag before arranging the cats above it so their tails drape over it.

6) Cut the silver tag in half and glue each half to the back of the tag so that it gives a little mat all around. This means that there will be a little gap on the back of the tag, but as it is going to be stuck on a gift bag, nobody will see it.

7) Thread some ribbon through the hole at the top of the tag and then tie a twine bow around it.

8) To finish off, attach the tag to a gift bag, draw some eyes on the cats and stick a small red heart next to the sentiment.

Handmade tags are always handy to have around for a special present, and I have a cat loving friend with a special birthday coming up so I know exactly where this tag is heading. Why not head over to the Happy Little Stampers blog to see some inspiration from the team and join in with us this time.

I'd like to play along with

Make My Monday Challenge #58 - anything but a card

International Art and Soul Challenge #20 - add a charm or tag

Challenge up our LifeChallenge #78 - die cuts

My Time to Craft Challenge #357 - Halloween or cats



Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

Mixed Media Tag for HLS

Hello everyone, and welcome to an exciting new challenge. Happy Little Stampers are launching a new Mixed Media Challenge today and the theme is Tag

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers Shop

and the winner will receive a stamp set from HLS

I am delighted to be part of the new Design Team and I am new to mixed media so I jumped enthusiastically into playing with my materials, and I came up with this tag

I pulled out one of the first rubber stamps I ever bought from PSX (Personal Stamp Exchange), if you remember them. This stamp dates from 2001 but I believe the Company was bought out soon afterwards. This stamp has a dreamy, collagy collection of wonderful positive sentiments and I began by stamping it in Versamark ink on my tag. I then used several distress inks to colourr the tag and the words came through in a muted way. Once the ink was dry, I took a stencil from Glitzcraft and used their Emerald Green Glitter Frosting Medium to create the leaves and stem. Once that had dried, I used the Magenta medium to create the flowers. I didn't have the right colour of ribbon so I took some white organza ribbon and coloured it with two colours of distress ink to match the tag. I put two strips of ribbon through the tag and attached the back two to the tag with a tiny staple  To finish off, I stamped and embossed the greeting in white onto a strip of black card and snipped it up before attaching it with foam tape.

Whilst I had everything out, I made another background and die cut it into a circle to go on a second tag

 I cut a slightly larger white circle as a mat and then placed in on a Papertrey Ink tag die cut. I die cut a heart, from the leftover background, covered it with glossy accents and whilst it was still wet, I dropped extra fine iridescent glitter onto it.

A couple of things I learned:-

Mixed Media can be fun! I enjoyed it so much more when I just went with what I created rather than having a fixed idea in my head of what I wanted to end up with.

It is easy to colour ribbon with distress ink but it is a lot harder to dry it. I tried speeding up the process with my heat gun but the delicate ribbon just curled up and fizzled to nothing. I left it for two days but although it appeared dry, my fingers got covered in the colour, so be careful about transferring marks onto your work if you want to try this.

You will find lots of inspiration from the Design Team over at Happy Little Stampers and you can link up your tag creation there to be in with a chance of winning the stamp set. Our DT member Loll is having a 12 days of Christmas series on her blog at the moment and today is Day 3 so you will want to check that out.

I'd also like to play along with

Craft for the Craic - something glittery

Creative Artiste challenge - mixed media anything goes

Love to scrap challenge - Bling it

That's Crafty challenge - tag you're it

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Avery Elle Plus One new baby tag

Hello everyone,

Some friends of ours are off to America to meet their first Grandson next week, and I wanted to give them a present to take with them for the baby. I made this tag to go on it after seeing the inspiration tag made byKara for the Tag You're It challenge this month

I loved the layout of Kara's tag and changed the theme to be a baby tag.

I cut a tag from white card to be about 5 inches by 2.5 inches, and partially die cut a stitched square die in the lower part of the tag. I then scored along the die cut so I could fold the tag over on itself, and stamped and coloured the rattle and greeting from Avery Elle Plus One stamp set.

When you pull back the lower part of the tag, another area is revealed, and I added a further greeting and some little stamped hearts and stars, but these are totally hidden when the tag is closed. The tag was finished by adding some Papertrey Ink blue gingham paper at the top and bottom, and a couple of strips of blue card along with some ribbon.

This is how it looks when it is open and flat. Thanks for the inspiration Kara!

I'd also like to play with

Sweet Stampin' - use dies or punches

Dream Valley Challenges - use the colour blue

Stamps and Fun Creativity - white and blue 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Hugs

Carol x

Papertrey Ink Wine Bottle Tags

Hello everyone,

Well this week whooshed by before I blinked and I can't believe the weekend is here again! There are lot of friends celebrating things around here and I'd like to share a couple of  tags I made for them. I wanted to join in the the current Tag You're It challenge where Tracey  provided an inspiration picture of some lovely tags added to teacher gifts. Tracey's tags had fishtail bottoms and were attached to gifts rather than being used as an element on a card, so I came up with a similar idea for wine bottle tags

The first one was for some friends who are celebrating the birth of their first Grandchild and I decided to get them some Champagne to 'wet the baby's head' as is the tradition here. Is this a peculiarly British thing or do other countries celebrate in this way I wonder? Anyway, it was an excuse to break out the PTI bottle tag die and I came up with this tag

I saw the greeting somewhere on Pinterest and typed it on the computer, printed it onto patterned paper, and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die to add to the tag. It may be easier to read it in this photo

I extended the tag by cutting the bottom part again in white card and adhered it from behind, to be the place for my 'celebrate' die cut to go. 

The second tag was for a friend who moved house recently and I added it to another bottle of Champagne to take to his housewarming party. This time I wanted a very masculine feel, so I cut the tag from dark gray card and stamped it with a background star stamp using Versamark ink. I used the PTI Uncorked dies and stamps to decorate it.

and finished it off with a few little red starts to add a pop of colour.

I'd also like to play along with

The Male Room challenge - Add a tag

The Mod Squad challenge - I'm tagging you


Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.


Hugs
Carol x

Christmas Tags

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the weekend and have something nice planned for your Sunday. We are back at Christmas Card Challenges today for another 'anything goes' challenge and this time I decided to make some tags.

For the first tags I used my new My Favorite Things Tag Builder 2 die set and made two of them with a positive and a negative cut

For this one I used a Papertrey Ink Tag Sale 4 die and the Framed Out #9 stamps to make the wreath. Some red pearls and glitter finished it off.

On this one I used the MFT Tag again along with a cat image from my new Mama Elephant Three Amigos stamp set, and I added a Christmas greeting.

The next 2 tags used the PTI Tag sale 3 die along with the Polka Dot Parade # 9 stamps and die in different colours, with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted which I stamped and embossed.

This next one also uses Tag Sale 3 but with a stamp from the 2009 Holiday Tag Collection and a sentiment from WPlus9 Pretty Patches: Tree

This one used PTI Tag Sale #8 and a stamp and die from WPlus9 Pretty Patches:Tree. I cut the heart from red card and used Wink of Stella to give some sparkle.

The final two were again from the MFT Tag Builder Blueprints 2 set but this time used the candy cane in positive and negative forms, along with sentiments from PTI Think Big Favorites #21.

Here they all are grouped together:-

I love that the Tag Builder Blueprints dies can be mixed and matched for different tops and bottoms, and that, although the set comes with Christmas images, you can use the basic tags for any occasion. They are smaller than the PTI Tag Sale dies which makes them better for smaller gifts but the the Tag Sale dies do have a bit more impact. I really enjoyed having a sort through all my supplies and having a fun hour putting these together, and I might do the same thing with some non holiday sets so I have some tags on hand for birthdays and other occasions.

Why not pop over to the Christmas Card Challenge blog to see what my talented Design Team mates have to inspire you with this week.

I'd like to play along with the following challenges

Merry Monday - Tree




Hiding in my Craft Room - Any Holiday




Darnell's NBUS Challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Carol x

Silhouette Cameo and Papertrey Ink Easter Gift bag and tag

Hello everyone,

I'm back for the PTI 8th birthday celebrations again with a gift bag and tag for some yummy Easter treats.

I cut the bag on my Silhouette Cameo and stamped the bottom of it with Polka Dot Basics, and the top with BB: Hearts. I cut the small tag from Tag Sale 8 and added a little scalloped border from Lawn Fawn to the bottom. I stamped and cut the bunny from Polka Dot Parade #1 and added a a glittery tail, before finishing it off with the sentiment on a tiny banner .

This will be so easy to mass produce and it's good to have a head start on Easter!

I'd like to enter this into the

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge - all creatures great and small

PDE Linky Party - sweet Treats

2 Creative Chicks - anything goes - no cards.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x