25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 Event - Hello Bluebird Stamps

Hello!   Today is Hello Bluebird Stamp's turn for their Design Team to share their tags for the big 25th Days of Christmas Tags event hosted by Tracey McNeely whose blog you can find HERE.

I have made a trio of tags using Hello Bluebird's Stitched Tag Builder Die.  These shaker tags also use Skating Party and their coordinating dies and the silver branches are from Littles Holiday Extras.



I worked with a limited colour palette of white, pink and red with just a touch of silver and enclosed some starry shaker mix in each shaker that also features an ink blended background created using Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink.

The Skating Party sweeties were stamped and watercolour painted using Kuretake Zigs in Deep Red, Light Pink, Beige, Mid Gray and Warm Gray 2, they were then die cut and applied over each window opening.  Points were highlighted with a white gel pen.

The silver branches were stamped with Versamark Ink and heat embossed in silver, die cut and adhered to frame out the little scene below.



The finishing touch was to tie 3/8 of an inch of red and white gingham ribbon.

Thanks so much for coming by to view these tags, I hope you're inspired.  Happy crafting!

Nicky x

Christmas Gift Tags - Purple Onion Designs

Hello there!  I have some sweet little gift tags today featuring stamps illustrated by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs.



To create the actual tags for this project I used Stitched Ornaments by Pretty Pink Posh.  I die cut the tags from white cardstock and the 'metal' piece at the top that holds the string was die cut from glittered silver cardstock.

I ink blended each tag using Distress Oxide Ink in Spun Sugar - fading it away to nothing to represent snow.  I then adhered the silver glittered cardstock die cuts to the actual tag and set these to one side for a few minutes.



These tags are pretty small and so I chose some mini images from the Stacey Yacula collections.  The bird and tree are from Winter Wishes, the fence and candy canes from Snowflake Grove.  All images were stamped using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil on Bristol Smooth cardstock.  They were watercolour painted using Kuretake Zigs in Orange, Warm Gray 2, Beige, Gray, Carmine Red, Light Pink and Haze Blue.  Images were then fussy cut and applied to the tags with dimensional foam tape.



To embellish I applied white Nuvo drops all over for snowfall, I die cut some snowflakes from a Simon Says Stamp die and glued one on to each tag and finally I glittered up several points with Stickles glitter in Crystal.  Bakers twine was threaded through the top of each ornament tag and the project was complete!

Are you making your own gift tags this year?

Happy crafting!

Nicky x

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

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Pretty Pink Posh

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 proud to be representing Pretty Pink Posh with this trio of pastel tags.



Products used in the making of these tags are - Scallop Square Tags for the dies.  Pink tag uses stamps from Winter Woodland.  Blue tag uses stamps from Winter Wonderland and the Green tag uses stamps from Holiday Pals for the background and the little girl is from Winter Woodland again.



As you can see from the image above for each tag I die cut the smaller tag 3 times.  They might be small but they are mighty!   I softly ink blended each die cut both front and back because you can see in the side.  The top die cut was stamped and heat embossed in white for the snowfall and then I used the little hinged flap die included in the set to die cut an opening.



Each little tag was stamped with its own Pretty Pink Posh sentiment - the one above is from the Winter Wonderland stamp set.  This was stamped on to one of the solid die cuts, making sure it would nicely align with the flap opening.   Each die cut was then adhered to the next, layered up on dimensional foam tape, providing such a pleasing affect when viewed from the side.



To finish each tag I stamped my images on to Bristol Smooth cardstock with Ranger Archival Ink in black,  I watercolour painted the images using Kuretake Zigs and highlighted a few points with a Uniball Signo White gel pen.  I then die cut them and applied them with more foam tape making sure the flap would still open up to reveal the sentiment inside.

The final touch was the addition of Pretty Pink Posh sequins and I used some cream and silver baker's twine tied through the top.

Such a fun little project!  Thank you for coming by my blog to read.

Nicky x