With Christmas only around five weeks away I am very busy trying to get all
my paper crafts completed. The last week or so I've been working on making gift
tags.
As you may recall from earlier posts, we've been going through some
renovations at our house. The family room is completed and went through an
entire overhaul including new furniture, and more importantly a completely new
colour pallet. This of course means that I need to buy some new decorations (it
all has to match, I'm a little OCD). In the past our tree and the present I placed
underneath it, were gold, silver and basic black and white. With the new colour
theme, there will be no gold, instead I'm adding purple to match the new accent
colour in the room.
So, to make a long story a little shorter, my Christmas tags this year will
consist of various shades of purple, white, silver and possibly some black.
Here is the first set I came up with, featuring snowflakes. So far I have made one for each of my kids.
There are some slight variations between the three, but the basic design is the same.
Here is a close up of one tag to show a little more detail.
I only used white cardstock. I started by stamping a half sheet of cardstock randomly
with a large snowflake stamps using Versamark. I then embossed the snowflakes
in silver. Next I stamped a smaller snowflake between the large ones with
Versamark and embossed these in white. Using three shades of purple I sponged
over everything removing the ink from the embossed images with a baby wipe at the end.
I then cut 3 large tags from this cardstock with my AccuCut
die. Next I die cut the snowflakes form white card and inked the smallest in smokey slate and the
middle one with Perfect plum. I glued the snowflakes together and attached it to
the tag with some foam squares. Next I matted the tag on white cardstock and trimmed the edges approx 1/8" all around.
I didn't wish to use a to/from stamp so instead I cut a small tag, embossed the recipients name
in white and sponged the background. Then I added this little tag as well as
some ribbon, a bow, my clear snowflake and a silver snowflake brad to the top
of the large tag. Lastly i embellished the large snowflake with some clear
rhinestones.
Supply list:
Cardstock: Recollections
110 lbs white
Stamps: Festive Flurry - SU, Rummage alphabet – MM
Dies: Snow Flury -
SU, Gift Tag # 3, large, Gift Tag # 3 small by AccuCut
Ink: Wisteria
Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Smokey Slate - all SU, Versamark
Misc.: white and
silver embossing powder, 5/8" plum organza ribbon, 1 snowflake brad, 1
clear plastic snowflake, 7 x 1/4" clear rhinestone, foam squares.
Thanks for stopping by. Check back soon for more Christmas creations (there fill be some punch art coming up in a bit as well).