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25 tags of december- day 25

by melissa m

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!!!! I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  To create the words on this tag I used my alphabet stamp set from Inkadinkadoo and cut out the strips of paper and adhered them to my patterned paper.  To create the top and bottom I used the Marvy pink scallop circle and the Marvy blue circle.  I stamped the Cats Life Press Merry Christmas stamp onto natural colored cardstock before punching it out.  I finished off this tag with Memory Box Jewel Stickers in Pistachio and Snowflake Gems.  I hope you had fun looking at all of our 25 days of Christmas Tags.  Melissa M.

25 tags of december- day 24

by melissa

One more sleep ‘till Santa arrives!! Today’s tag is FULL of layers and detail, and is a great example of using your scraps to create something pretty fancy. The base of the tag was created by scoring the BACK side of Core’dinations cardstock then sanding the embossed line to reveal the color core. A smaller piece of A Muse wood grain patterned paper was layered on top of the tag base. To create the tree element, I trimmed several ½” strips of double sided patterned paper, inked and layered them on top of layered triangle pieces of cardstock. I machine stitched around the edges of the triangle and added adhesive rhinestones before attaching the tree to the tag. I die cut a small label tag using my Spellbinders dies and stamped the cream paper with green gifts, then layered the stamped piece on a larger die cut before mounting to the tag. I hand stamped the sentiment using Charcoal Colorbox Chalk Ink on sanded Core’dinations cardstock strips and trimmed the end of each sentiment strip in a “v” shape. I added a stocking embellishment and star embellishment to the tag to finish off the tag.

25 tags of december- day 23

by jenn

this one is my fave tag, of all the tags i made :) i used tim holtz cling snowflake set. I inked each snowflake in a variety of colorbox chalk inks ( ice blue, lavendar, wisteria, warm violet and blue iris) and stamped them on white bristol board. I then covered my whole tag with multi-medium, and dipped it in chunky crystal glitter. I used glossy accents and glued on a few different snowflake embellishments as well as my glittered thicker numbers. For the sentiment (by hero arts) i used the same inking technique and used foam tape and glossy accents to pop it up off the tag.

i suppose i like this tag best, because I LOVE snowflakes, even though i hate winter!

25 tags of december- day 22

by jayne

let it snow

 

love the new martha stewart snowflake punch that i used here to create a stencil and layering pieces. using ranger matte medium i covered the paper snowflake pieces to "waterproof" them. i then layed them on my tag and spritzed denim colorwash by ranger. love using the positive and negative pieces of the snowflake to get blue and white snowflakes. i added silver glitter to my numbers to make them perfect and i layered snowflakes and ribbon to finish i off.

 

25 tags of december- day 21

by erin

Yo ho ho - Happy Holidays! This little cutie comes from a clear set of stamps by Darice's. I colored the pirate-y snowman with Copics and glittered his body with a quickie glue pen and ultra fine glitter. After I colored in the treasure chest, I used my xacto knife to cut it so I could tuck in my "21" stickers. Stamped images are cut out and adhered to a piece of patterned paper which has been edge distressed. I stamped the sentiment, also from the clear set of stamps, and mounted everything onto a piece of brown cardstock. I finished off this tag by adding a line of glossy accents on the bottom and piling on the faux snow!

25 tags of december- day 20

by melissa m

Joy

To create this tag I used a piece of Memory Box Russian Sage cardstock for my background.  I cut a piece of patterned paper from Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses line and adhered that to my tag.  I then cut a strip of metallic sliver cardstock and adhered that to the patterned paper where I stamped the Memory Box Joy Outline stamp in Versamark and embossed with red.  I then stamped the Memory Box Stick Tree in versamark and embossed those in red.  I stamped the the Bundled Snowman once in black Memento and then again in Colorbox Lipstick Red.  After I cut out the entire black bundled snowman I cut out the scarf and hat from the red image and and layered that onto the black image.  Before adhering the snowman to the tag I put a line of glossy accents down and adhered the Faux Snow from Art Glitter.  Merry Christmas - Melissa M.

25 tags of december- day 19

by melissa o

Get out your Spellbinders dies and re-create this frosty tag in no time flat! The background layer of the tag was made using Core’dinations Vintage Collection cardstock, and the second layer was made using paper from the Whitewash Collection. The second layer was embossed using the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder, then sanded to reveal the color core of the cardstock. The reverse side of the Core’dinations paper was used for the border punched strip because the color was a perfect match for the other papers. A sentiment was stamped along the punched strip, then an A Muse ribbon was added for extra detail. Punched snowflakes were adhered to the tag using Glossy Accents, and a hole was punched at the top of the tag and tied with two strands of coordinating ribbon.

25 tags of december- day 18

by jenn

for this tag i did a lil bit of this and a lil bit of that!

the lil santa mouse: this stamp is by art impressions. i stamped him in black memento ink, and then colored with my copic markers (W2,W4,W6,R29,RV02,YG17, G09) i then embellished his little santa hat with white liquid applique

For the background of the tag, i used my luminarte twinkling h2o's directly on a penny black holly stamp, misted gently with water and stamped. i love the watercolor effect this gives, not to mention the shimmer!

then i used a jenni bowlin ticket and some cardstock stickers to mark the 18th, attached with tim's tiny attacher! 

25 tags of december- day 17

by jayne

o christmas tree

 

soo... some times we just need super easy, and this tag is that. we all love the beautiful pattern paper out there and fancy pants made a great one this year with a christmas tree. i believe they used it in their advertising with brads and other items dressing the tree up. here i simply cut the tree from the pattern paper and i added different brads and bling. i backed it to hide the brad backs and added a trunk out of chipboard. i finished it off

 with some distress ink around the edges...of course!