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25 tags of december - day 10

25 tags of december - day 10 by Jenn Shurkus

I had to create at least one of my tags in true a muse fashion! I love having the 8.5x11 pattern sheets now, you can do so much! That is what i used for the base of my tag. I stamped my "scene" on white cardstock in memento inks, and colored in with copic markers.... using my quickie glue pen i accented different parts of the tag with ultrafine glitter.
I punched a scallop oval with my marvy punches ( it's a yellow one) and stamped out the word "ten" then i used brush markers directly on the stamp to do the holly. Using a cats eye ink pad in olive pastel i inked the edges of the oval and attached it with some foam tape for dimension!

25 tags of december - day 9

25 tags of december - day 9 by melissa meece

This tag started off as a sheet of Bazzil.  I simply cut two rectangles the size I wanted for my tag and glued them together to make my tag a little bit sturdier than a single sheet of cardstock.  I snipped the corners and punched a hole in the middle to give it a real "tag" feel.  Once my tag was together I stamped a large font stamp on the front using Versamark.  I sprinkled gold ultrafine embossing powder on top, tapped off the excess and set it with my heatgun.  Voila!  Fancy tag in an instant.  I then ripped a strip of red Bazzil and a strip patterned paper from the Basic Grey Figgy Pudding line.  I made sure I ripped my paper towards me so that the rough edges would show.  These edges were screaming to be all inky!  I used a square I cut from my cut and dry foam and Vintage Photo Distress Ink to get my papers to have that old antiqued look.  I adhered these distressed papers to the front of the tag leaving the top of the patterned paper without any adhesive so that I could slip in my Cats Life Press "Merry Christmas" stamped circle.  I finished this tag by using an edge distresser on all sides and inking it again with my Vintage Photo.  I spelled out the word nine using the tinsel font in black foil by American Crafts Thickers. 

Happy December - Melisser

25 tags of december - day 8

25 tags of december - day 8 by erin horgan

I stamped my "Merry Everything" repeatedly on my Kraft tag using brown Chalk ink. I then stamped the same stamp using red Chalk in on a seperate piece of Kraft cardstock, and then mounted it using gold and red cardstock. I used foam tape to give demension between the layers. I filled in the "everything" part of the stamp with Glossy Accents. The oval was punched using the Marvy scalloped punch, and the "8" is American Craft thickers.

25 tags of december - day 7

25 tags of december - day 7 by melissa oliveira

It's time to raid your pantry to create this "sweet" little tag. For the base of the tag, Melissa O used a flattened gold cupcake liner, then layered circles made using Marvy scalloped and regular circle punches. A Muse "tiny gift" was stamped onto cardstock and punched with a small circle before being colored with Tombow brush markers and finished with a layer of Stickles glitter glue. With some stamped and colored trees, a sentiment and "seven" title, your tag is complete!

25 tags of december - day 6

25 tags of december - day 6 by jayne irving

make an adorable santa tag using a few basic supplies. using the largest creative cafe red tag as a base i notched the top to look like a santa hat. i then layered white for the face. i drew on black eyes and cut out cheeks and a mouth. using cotton balls i finished the hat, mustache and beard.

25 tags of december - day 5

25 tags of december - day 5 by erin horgan

I first cut my tag out of Doodlebug flocked paper, using another tag as a template. I cut a piece of rectangle of white cardstock and a rectangle of holly flocked green cardstock, layered them, and attached them to the tag. I wrapped green ribbon around the bottom of my rectangles, keeping it in place with Glue Dots. I attached "holidays" (Creative Cafe) using glossy accents. I outlined the white cardstock using red Stickles. The "5" was created by first stamping a snowflake stamp repeatedly on a piece of white cardstock in lime green and then stamping the number in red ink over it.(my favorite clear alpha from technique tuesday) I cut out the number and attached it to the tag using foam tape. I stapled a little bit of green polka dot ribbon to the top of the tag and attached a fringe ribbon to the bottom of the tag :)

25 tags of december - day 4

25 tags of december - day 4 by jayne irving

using your scraps, the fiskars 'threading water' border punch and a few accessories you can create a great tag, card or layout. i used scraps to create Christmas trees, bordered the bottom of the page with the adorable 'threading water punch', added some ribbon, a sentiment and some art glitter(antique silver). for me, this is going to be part of my Christmas card!

25 tags of december - day 3

*just to let you know we are displaying all of these tags behind the register at the store, make sure you take a peek next time you are in... as the pictures just don't do them justice!


25 tags of december - day 3 by melissa meece

On the third day of Christmas Santa gave to me......3 snowmen!  This tag uses the new and *ultra-adorable* My Minds Eye "Be Merry" papers that we have in.  The base of my tag is from our Creative Cafe jar and the polka dot patterned paper background worked perfectly for my snow-scape.  I used the A Muse "Lots of snowflakes block" to stamp some cute snowflakes in ice blue on a square of natural paper that I then mounted to a piece of Kraft paper (my favorite).  Once I had all my layers on my tag I mounted the snowmen with foam tape.  Where did I find those cute snowman you ask? They were on another piece of patterned paper from the new"Be Merry"  My Minds Eye line.  I just cut them out using fine tip scissors and used three different colored stickles to make their scarves pop!  Who said you had to pay a lot for dimensional embellishments?  The tag is finished off with A Muse ribbon, the A Muse let it snow stamp, Kaiser red pearl gems and the number 3 from a pack of brown "Rootbeer Float"  American Crafts Thickers.

25 tags of december - day 2

25 tags of December - two, by melissa oliveira

Get ready to pull out your needle and embroidery floss... I will have you sewing some sweet little Christmas Trees for this tag! Begin by cutting a small piece of cream cardstock and marking it with pencil dots to create two triangles. Pierce holes in the penciled dots before stitching your trees with green floss (use a small piece of tape to secure loose ends of floss to the back of the tag). Use brown floss to stitch trunk for your trees... and don't stress out about creating perfect trees! These look SUPER CUTE when they are more free-form and whimsical. Add a few rhinestones to the stitched trees and you have the cutest Christmas Trees on the block! Layer your completed tree swatch onto coordinating patterned papers, tie with a length of ribbon, and adhere to a Creative Cafe lime green tag that has been scalloped along the bottom. Stitch on a few buttons for good measure and you're all set!

advent of tags by the {creative chicks}

the girls at colorful creations wanted to do something special for all of you.. while getting our craft on!
each day until christmas we reveal a holiday tag.... the {creative chick} will describe what she did, or what supplies she used... feel free to stop in and ask us questions as well!

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25 tags of December- one, by jenn shurkus

i used a piece of handmade paper for the base of my tag. I used twinkling H2O's directly on my stamp, coating it heavily with color... then i took my wet paint brush and dipped it into some perfect pearls and painted on top. Since this took awhile i lightly misted the stamp with water and stamped the image onto watercolor paper. ( you could use regular cardstock, i just liked the feel of watercolor paper for this tag)

i edged the tag with twinkling H2O's as well... I used the paints to stamp out my alpha stamps too.. no inkpads needed!

i assembled the tag with foam tape, then i used glossy accents here and there and poured crystal glass shards on them... let it dry and tapped them off, added a nice sparkle!