Hello everyone! I’m so glad you’re here today. This week’s #tagtimesaturday features stamps and dies from Avery Elle. This is one of my favorite companies that I feel like I don’t find the time to create with enough. So when this idea came to mind I was very excited to start crafting!

We are hosting the competition this weekend that this tag is for. And since yours truly runs the gift table, I know what my daughter’s delivery gift will be so I took the opportunity to create a coordinating gift tag.

I started by stamping and coloring the sweet image from Dragon Love with my copic markers. I used the coordinating dies to cut him out and set him aside. Then I cut the elements for my tag using the Snowy Tags dies.

I cut the background piece from purple to match the way I colored the dragon’s balloon. Then I cut the scene elements from black and gray cardstocks. I used foam squares to add those to the purple tag and tucked the dragon into the ground piece.

Next, I went looking for an appropriate sentiment and found this gem in Banner Celebrations. I cut a small banner and stamped it before tucking the end behind the dragon and gluing it in place.

For finishing touches today I added black glaze pen to the dragon’s eyes and then white gel pen highlights all around the dragon and the ground. I covered the balloon with glossy accents so it’s really shiny in the light too. So fun!

Products used today:
Dragon Love stamps and dies (on sale, retiring)
Snowy Tags dies
Banner Celebrations stamps
Foam squares
Glossy accents

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Welcome everyone. I hope your week is going well. I just received my first order from the new Avery Elle release and couldn’t barely get in the house before I was opening this cute bear to stamp and color him! Needless to say I immediately transitioned and made a card that I’m super excited to share!

Isn’t this just too fun!?! I’m quite tickled with the whole thing personally.

I stamped and colored the images from Bee a Keeper with my copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I took an A2 panel and the Big Congrats die to see if I could fit everything that I wanted. Once I decided it would work, I inked up a piece of white cardstock with tumbled glass and salty ocean distress oxide inks. I spritzed the panel with water and set it aside.

Next, I cut the Big Congrats shadow from vellum and the word from white cardstock 3 times. I used liquid glue to adhere the layers together. When I laid everything out again the background seemed lacking, so I went digging. I found the Cloud Mat die and cut it from white cardstock just keeping the clouds. I arranged them in the background and adhered them with liquid glue once I decided their final placement.

I added the Big Congrats with tape runner hidden behind the letters and the images with foam squares. Then I placed the panel in my MISTI and stamped a sentiment on one of the big clouds and the bee trails too.

For finishing touches I added black glaze pen the the eyes, glossy accents to antennae, the bear’s nose and flower center. Then I added unicorn Stickles to all of the wings for some fun shimmer.

Isn’t this so much fun!?! I can’t wait to create more punny goodness using some of the other sentiments in the set.

Products used today:
Avery Elle Bee a Keeper stamps and dies
Avery Elle Big Congrats dies
Avery Elle Cloud Mat die
Foam squares
Glossy accents
Stickles – unicorn
Distress Oxide – salty ocean, tumbled glass
Copic markers

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Hi there! It’s Amanda from Twiddler’s Nook with a super fun set of Christmas tags featuring Avery Elle goodies – some from the most recent release and some from years ago. Let’s get started.

To create these tags, I started by die cutting the pieces from the Easy Layer Tags die set. I cut 2 of the largest layer from white cardstock for each tag and adhered them together. This makes it more sturdy and hides any marks from my die cutting plates too. Then I cut the inside layer and inked them all up with distress oxide ink in chipped sapphire and blueprint sketch. I spritzed those with water, flicked pearl watercolor and set them aside. Next, I cut the snowy border and banners for each from white cardstock as well.

For these two tags, I chose images from the Christmas Critters stamp set. I inked them up and colored them with my copics before using the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I also used sentiments from this set to stamp on the banners. 

For assembly, I used liquid glue to adhere the snow bank to the inked panel. Added foam tape to that panel and adhered it to the white tag base. Then I added foam squares to the images and banners and popped up. I strung some red ribbon through the hole and pulled out my glossy accents to  finish things off.

For these two tags I chose some cute images from Avery Elle sets that released previously. The snowman and sentiment are from Snow Fun and the sleigh full of cuteness is from Sledding Critters. These tags were adhered the same way and just a little added inspiration to dig in your stash and see what you have that might word. 

Products used:
Avery Elle Easy Layer Tags dies
Avery Elle Christmas Critters stamps and dies
Avery Elle Snow Fun stamps and dies
Avery Elle Sledding Critters stamps and dies
Distress Oxide Ink – chipped sapphire and blueprint sketch
Glossy accents
Snow Day embellishments from Twiddler’s Nook
Copic markers
Foam squares
Foam tape
Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink

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Hey friends! I have a really adorable card today featuring some Avery Elle goodies. I’ve been so excited for their recent release that it inspired me to pull out things I already have and play with them.

To create today’s card, I stamped images from Sending Hugs and colored them with my copic markers. Then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I did want to slip the elephant inside he envelope so I stamped it a second time and used the special die in the set to cut it out. Then I used liquid glue to adhere it all together, including the flower in the elephant’s hand. I put this in my MISTI and stamped the sentiment on the bottom in Lawn Fawn guava ink.

Next, I inked up a white panel with stormy sky and tumbled glass distress oxide inks. I kept the stormy sky to the center so it was a little shadow coming out from behind the envelope. Once that was blended, I splattered it with watered down ink of both colors and let it dry. Then I ran it through my die cut machine with the quilted backdrop die. I added foam tape to the back, keeping the center cut out in place and adhered it to a white card base. Then I added foam tape to the back of my image and popped it on too.

For finishing touches, I added Nuvo Crystal Drops in wedgwood blue to all the points where the quilted stitching meets. Then I added glossy accents to the “berry” looking flowers and heart in the speech bubble. I brushed a little Wink of Stella glitter on the flower in the elephant’s hand and also added black glaze pen to the elephant’s eyes.

I just think this card turned out so sweet! I can’t wait to play with this set some more and add the other critters to the mix too!

Products used on today’s card, using affiliate inks at no additional cost to you:
Avery Elle Sending Hugs stamps and dies
Avery Elle Quilted Frame die
Lawn Fawn guava ink
Nuvo Crystal Drops – wedgwood blue
Distress oxide inks – tumbled glass, stormy sky
Glossy accents
Wink of Stella glitter brush pen

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