Hello there! Thanks so much for stopping by today. I am over on the Trinity Stamps blog today sharing this simple set of holiday tags that I created with the new Holiday Tag die set. I just adore the look of this tag and the fact that you can use the holiday accents or not, so it’s great all year long!
To create this set of tags, I inked up a strip of cardstock just wider than the ornament with distress oxide inks in aged mahogany and candied apple. Then I spritzed it with water and blotted it dry. Next, I cut the ball part of the ornament from it three times. I took a small strip of gold foil cardstock and cut the topper portion three times next. While I had the foiled cardstock out I also cut the JOY letters from it. Finally, I cut the whole ornament from white cardstock and just kept the frame.
Next, I cut the main tag shape three times from white cardstock. I used my blending buddy brush to add some light teal dye ink as a shadow behind where the ornaments will be adhered. For some added interest I took a darker shade of teal ink, smooshed it on my glass mat, sprayed it with water and flicked it on the tags with a paintbrush.
Next, I used liquid glue and adhered my ornaments to each tag, then added the foiled JOY letters on top of each one. I finished things off by threading white satin ribbon through the hole and tied it with gold thread from my stash.
Aren’t these tags just beautiful?!? They will be the perfect accent to a Christmas gift bag or treat this season. I’m really excited to start putting things together and giving all of these creations out!
Hey friends! Jane’s Doodles released a SUPER CUTE digital stamp yesterday – Merry Mice – and I absolutely could not wait to color these sweet images! I seem to be in a kick of making all things Christmas tags so these cuties just flowed together on their own practically.
After printing the stamps, I colored them with my copic markers and used the scan-n-cut to cut them out. Then I used a circle die from Newton’s Nook to cut one sentiment and a Pink & Main large sentiment strip die to cut another. For the third sentiment I actually pulled out Driving Home for Chrimstas, stamped one from it and used a Newton’s Nook banner die to cut it out.
The tags are all cut from the Newton’s Nook Fancy Tag die set. I cut one from kraft and one from white, then I cut toppers for each tag from white cardstock too. I matched some smaller images from other sets to stamp in the background. These snowflakes are also from Driving Home for Christmas.
I popped the images and sentiments up on foam squares. Then I added brown ribbon and red twine to attach the two tags together for each set. I like being able to write on the white one instead of flipping the main tag over. The candy canes for this tag are from Warm and Cozy.
The background images on this tag are from St. Nick. Once everything was adhered, I came back in with glossy accents on all the mouse noses and things like bows, berries and ornaments.
I already have another set of these fabulous images printed and ready for coloring. I’m hoping to get them colored over the holiday weekend.
Hey crafty friends! It’s National Espresso Day and given that it’s my day on the Coffee Loving Cardmakers blog, we couldn’t let it slip passed! So I have a fun themed card for you featuring the new release from Newton’s Nook!
I really wanted to use the new Time for Coffee stamp set and the Coffee House Stories paper pad. They are so much fun and just perfect for today! So I chose an image, stamped and colored it with my copics. Then used the coordinating die to cut it out and started flipping through the fun paper pad!
I chose an array of papers and grabbed the circle frames dies and the frames squared dies (for the circles in it, haha) and started cutting out different size circles. I also cut one from kraft cardstock and stamped a sentiment from Time for Coffee on it.
Moving on to assembly, I adhered the background paper to a white card base with liquid glue. Then I started adding the circles some with liquid glue and some with foam squares. Finally I added my coffee grinder image with foam squares and then went about trimming off anything hanging over the edge.
For finishing touches, I just added some glossy accents to the metal parts of the grinder for a little shine and interest.
I plan on fully celebrating today’s national holiday with a run through the Starbucks line later. How about you?
Happy Monday my friends! I’m super excited that it’s Thanksgiving week! We love Thanksgiving at our house. Getting together to hang out, play games, chat and eat good food! Seriously, what gets better…other than crafting? Haha!
Today I’m over on the Thermoweb blog with this set of adorably fun deco foil thankful cards to share!
This ended up being one of those projects where I was having fun and just couldn’t stop so I ended up with 6 fun turkeys and that turned into 6 thankful cards. Not a bad problem to have though. I am excited to write in each one and give them out this week.
For all the details on how I made these, head over to the Thermoweb blog where I share a photo tutorial from start to finish and have links to all the products used too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
I recently received my very first order from Unity Stamp Co and am so excited about all the fun goodies I got! First off, I had to use this super adorable bunch of bananas because my daughter has a thing for food with faces and this is just too perfect! She has her last dance competition of the fall/winter season before championships today so I’m attaching it to some goodies for her.
I mean seriously…how could this not make you smile?!?
To create this tag, I stamped and colored the bananas with copic markers and then fussy cut the image out. I die cut the elements of the Pink & Main fancy tag from kraft, white and teal cardstock. I stamped the sentiment on the kraft layer and adhered everything with tape runner. Then I added the bananas with foam squares.
Next, I threaded some gingham ribbon through the hole and tied it with teal twine matching the cardstock. I finished things off with some simple black glaze pen on the eyes to help them shine.
And the back of the tag is bright white and ready for a special message to encourage her before performing! How fun is that!?! I love it!
Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m over on the Pink & Main blog with a super fun Christmas shaker card! It’s adorable and fits in with the final day of the Fall | Winter Coffee Lovers Hop too! Pink & Main is a super sponsor, did I mention that?!? Even better!
I started my card by stamping some images from Mugs and Kisses and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and then glued everything together with my EZ Squeeze liquid adhesive. I chose a sentiment from the set, stamped it on white cardstock and cut it out with a large sentiment strip die.
Then I created my shaker mechanism. For that I cut the peppermint swirl die from red cardstock. I found the corresponding size circle in the layered circle dies and cut it from acetate. I used liquid glue to adhere these together and carefully lined the back with thin foam strips. I sprinkled in some sparkling cotton tail flock and ice rink super fine glitter and sealed it up with a white circle. This one was cut from the circle one larger than the acetate.
For my background, I chose a fun light blue patterned paper in the Best Friends paper pad and cut it out with the largest rectangle stack A2 dies and adhered it to a white card base. Next, I added the peppermint shaker and finally added the sentiment strip and reindeer mug with foam squares.
For finishing touches, I added glossy accents to the sprinkles, peppermint stick and rudolph’s nose. Then I came in with unicorn Stickles for his cheeks and finished everything off with a few glitter enamel dots from the Thankful pack.
The mugs in this stamp set are just too cute for words! It was really hard to choose just one so I’m going to have to make more of these just to color the rest of those cuties!
Happy Thursday everyone! I’m back with a little caffeinated inspiration from Miss Ink Stamps today! I had a little fun with one of my favorite gnome sets – Big Mugs and a new stencil – Lava Lamp. I also wanted to change things up a bit so I decided on a circular card today too!
I stamped my gnome out and colored him with copic markers before cutting him out with my scan-n-cut. Then I inked up a brown panel with the lava lamp stencil and white pigment ink using my blending buddy brush. I die cut the panel with an embossed edge circle from Trinity Stamps. Then I cut the next size up circle from kraft cardstock.
I created a white card base with the same circular die and adhered the kraft circle with liquid glue, then popped the stenciled circle up with foam tape. I felt like the gnome needed something behind him so I cut a smaller circle from vellum.
To hide my adhesive, I attached the gnome to the vellum with foam squares and hid tape runner on the back of the vellum behind the gnome only.
Last, I stamped a sentiment on a banner from Newton’s Nook Banner Trio set and popped it up with foam squares under the gnome’s feet.
For finishing touches I added some brown clay hearts from the Twiddler’s Nook Caffeinated Crafting embellishment mix and gave the image some white gel pen highlights.
Tomorrow is the last day to play along with the Coffee Lovers Fall | Winter Hop. Have you played along yet? I’m entering this cutie for sure!
Oh my goodness my friends! I am BEYOND excited to share Trinity Stamps new release with you! Today I have 5 projects featuring the new pillow box die set and other products too! Here’s a peek at a couple of them and then we’ll take a look at each one on its own.
These first 3 that I’m sharing are like the Thermoweb trifecta! We’ve got flocked roses, glitzed snow and foiled coffee beans! How could you go wrong?!? Aren’t they fantastic!?! I love them all! Let’s look at some more, shall we?
For this beauty, I foiled the big cut and foil snowflake and layered it on dark blue cardstock. Then foiled the cut and foil joy with the same silver foil on the same dark blue cardstock and adhered them with foam squares. I inked up the pillow box with the polka dot stencil and tied it with a fat red ribbon. Isn’t it stunning?!?
For this fun, lovey feeling box, I used the heart in the set to cut out a window and lined the inside with recycled packaging. I cut 2 additional hearts – one from white glitter cardstock and the second from plain white and used the new Holiday Tag Helper stamps to add a to and from.
Heading back to the trifecta at the beginning, I cut the pillow box for this one from green cardstock and inked one layer of the snowfall stencil with white pigment ink. Then I spread gold glitz glitter gel through the second layer and set it aside to dry. While I was waiting I cut 2 stars using the die in the set and adhered them together. Then I stamped another sentiment in the Holiday Tag Helpers stamp set and cut it out with the stitched banner from the Slimline Scalloped Card Panels and Banners die set. After assembling my box, I tied it lengthwise with white ribbon and adhered the star to that with foam squares.
For this sweet box, I inked up the leaf layer of the Bed of Roses stencil with green dye ink and then spread transfer gel blanco through the flower layer. Once it was dry, I ran it though my laminator with ruby red deco foil flock. I assembled the box, wrapped it with green baker’s twine and hid the twine connection with a white bow using the Bunch of Bows die set.
Last, but not least, I cut a teal pillow box and inked up the coffee bean stencil with brown ink for one layer and transfer gel for the second. After that was dry I ran it through my laminator with bronze deco foil for a fantastic shiny caffeinated treat box! Then I cut the coffee cup tag from the pillow box die set twice – one for a decoration with all the details and the second with another to and from included in the Holiday Tag Helper stamps.
Now, before I go and leave you to your fabulous Thursday. I have a couple of helpful hints if you’re interested in creating wonderful gift boxes this holiday season.
Starting in the top left and going clockwise, this is the process I found most helpful. And, honestly, the biggest part of this simple step-by-step is the way you add your adhesive to the tab that closes your box. Taking completely from one edge to another is very helpful in keeping the box closed when it’s got something inside, possibly pushing at the seam.
Next is simply a preference thing. I made this red box very first cutting the dies apart straight out of my package. When I folded it I though, darn it! So, here I am sharing in case you like to hide the closure of the box too. I make a point now to decorate the side with no finger notches as if it’s going to be the front of my box. The stenciling may go all the way around but my tag and such go on that side.
I hope those help you out a little and you have a total blast creating this fun boxes!
Now, that you’ve stuck with me through this huge post, which I appreciate more than you know! You can head to the Trinity Stamps shop and snag some new goodies HERE or you can head to Instagram and hop along for even more inspiration HERE.
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Well, hello again! I’m back today with some mini caffeinated inspiration for the Coffee Lovers hop! This time I’ve made a set of Christmas tags featuring some fun Mama Elephant products. I’m slightly obsessed with how fun they turned out and will probably be making lots more before the holiday season is over!
This is such a simple layout that I knew what I wanted to started with the die cutting first this time. I cut the main tag shape from white cardstock 6 times and white glitter cardstock 3 times. Then I added the snowflake shape to the glitter tags and cut that out of the center.
Next, I took 3 of the white tags and inked them up with Lawn Fawn peacock ink in the center. Then I flicked watered down cracked pistachio distress ink on the tags. Once they were dry, I used liquid glue to adhere the snowflake layer over the tops. Next, I glued the plain white tags to the back so they were sturdy and had a clean side to write on.
Then I chose 3 penguins from the Little Agenda Penguin stamp set and colored them with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and popped them in the center of each snowflake with foam squares. Next, I threaded black gingham ribbon through the tag hole and tied it with twine.
For finishing touches I added a little glossy accents to each penguin on parts like beaks and feet, berries and bows. These came together so quickly and are seriously adorable!
Are you playing along with the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Fall | Winter hop? There are tons of prizes up for grabs! Just link up a caffeinated project to THIS POST and you’re entered! I hope you will!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
Welcome friends! Today I’m popping in with a little sneak peek of some products coming up in the next Trinity Stamps release which goes live TOMORROW!!! It’s got some super fun holiday products that get you well into the New Year and beyond! Can’t wait for you to see it all!
Today I get to sneak the new bottle tag die set with you! I cut the main bottle tag from the new slimline mixed media paper and ink blended it with my blending buddy brushes. Then I took the new Simply Sentimental – Happy stamp set and stamped the happy in all the fonts all over the paper. Next, I wanted some shimmer so I flicked pearl and gold watercolor all over the panel.
Then I used the Simply Sentimental – Happy dies and cut one from black cardstock for the letters and white for the shadow. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and popped them up on the tag with foam squares. I stamped and heat embossed “new year” from the stamps set on black cardstock and trimmed it into a strip, popping it up below the happy.
I really excited for all of the new products that release tomorrow! I’ll be back then with another fun blog post using a whole new set of products available and also remember we’ll have an Instagram hop with tons of inspiration and a chance to win a gift card to the Trinity Stamps shop too!
I appreciate you sharing your time with me. Have a fabulous day!
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