Sunday, November 25, 2018

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Hello Bluebird


Hi, I'm excited to be participating this year in the big 25 Days of Christmas Tags event hosted by Tracey McNeely.  All month long designers from a plethora of stamp companies who are sponsoring this fun event, hope to inspire you with handmade gift tags for the Christmas season.  Today I am proudly representing Hello Bluebird Stamps with this trio of cute tags.



I took some tag dies that I pre-owned and die cut 3 tags and the top trim piece to go with each.  I used Bristol Smooth cardstock since the ink goes on like butter!  I then splashed on some white acrylic paint watered down with a dot of water to loosen the mixture.



I used the Hill and Dale die from an additional 3 die cuts of the tag so that I got the matching inverted V pointed bottom but had a curvy snow-line at the top, setting the scene for my characters.



I adhered the 'snow' die cuts to the main tags and the trim piece at the top with glue.



On more Bristol Smooth I stamped out my characters from North Pole Littles using Ranger Archival Ink in Coffee.  I watercolour painted them with my Kuretake Zigs and die cut the images.   I decided on a design for each tag with the lightest background having the lightest painted images progressing to the bolder coloured tag.  I wanted a related set that wasn't totally matchy matchy!  The images were adhered with foam tape.



Time to finish out the tags.  I stamped the sentiments from North Pole Littles with a toning ink colour using my Misti.  I then stamped a second time with Versamark Ink and then heat embossed the sentiments using Clear Embossing Powder.   The sentiments were also applied with foam tape.

I used white Nuvo Drops to add in some dimensional snow and then used toning baker's twine to finish each tag.

Little labours of love - but the right people will appreciate them on their special gift!

Thanks for stopping by!

Nicky x






15 comments:

  1. WOW Nicola, these certainly are "little labour's of love" but so worth it. Your little scenes are so precious.

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  2. OMG! How do you color? Your coloring is SOOOOO UNIQUE and gorgeous!!!

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    1. Hello Meghan, thank you so much! I watercolour paint 99% of the time and that is how these tags were made. There are more details in my blog post about items used.

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  3. I love what you created; they made me smile.

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  4. Those are lovely tags - very sweet and festive. I love your dimensional speckled backgrounds

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  5. Your tags today are awesome, so much scene on each small tag - I love it! My favorite sentiment this year is the "Bring On The Merry" so I have to pick that as a favorite lol. Thank you for the ideas and the inspiration, I will be making some just like these :)
    (mardy14@bellsouth.net)

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    1. Thanks Mindy! That is my favourite tag of the three too! I hope you have fun making yours, they are worth the effort for those important gifts under the tree!

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  6. Your tags are darling, and very creative. These sweet stamps come to life with your artistic touches.
    Blessings,
    Karen Letchworth

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    1. What a lovely thing to say Karen - thank you so much!

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  7. Oh what adorable tags! Love your vibrancy, coloring and designs - fantastic!

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    1. Thank you so much Dana - I really appreciate you saying that!

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  8. These are so cute! I love the stamp set you used. The images are colored so beautifully and each tag has so much detail to it. Fabulous tags!

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  9. The tags are darling.
    There is so much detail and
    the coloring is fantastic.
    thanks for sharing
    txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

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