holiday tags

This post was sponsored by Simon Says Stamp. Thanks, Simon!

Hi friends! We are charging ever closer to Christmas with just a few more days to get everything ready, wrapped, baked, mailed, etc etc etc! My immune system decided check out, so I have been sickly for the last two weeks… not ideal with four kiddos and all of the school activities, plus work and house remodeling! Because of this, I am on an extra tight time crunch this year, so I can always appreciate a quick and simple project that still adds that little handmade touch to my holiday gifts without a huge time investment. The new 4-for-1 Christmas product suite offers an opportunity to create beautifully detailed and illustrated tags that you can customize to perfectly match your wrapping, but with the added bonus of stamping and die cutting four individual tags with one go! I have created a little tag gift set with this new suite using ink and white cardstock as well as white embossing powder and colored cardstock. Let’s get started with the details on my project!

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I find that the older I get, the more I appreciate a truly useful and thoughtful gift. Giving handmade projects as gifts is one of my favorite ways to show people that I care about them, and if they are truly useful gifts, so much the better! I decided to put the new 4-for-1 Christmas suite to the test to create sets of tags to give as gifts (and maybe to keep a few for my own gifts!). The images are on one large stamp, so you stamp one time and have a full sheet of tags ready to be die cut (with the handy dandy 4-for-1 Christmas Tag Die that cuts all four images in one fell swoop!) and added to your gift!

For this set, I stamped the 4-for-1 Christmas suite eight different times on eight sheets of A2 cardstock, which sounds like a lot, but when using the MISTI, it went quite quickly! I stamped the first four using embossing ink on different shades of pink and green cardstock, then embossed them with white detail embossing powder. For the next batch, I stamped the tags using Pawsitively Saturated Inks in shades of Jade, Artichoke, Guava, and Taffy, continuing my pink and green theme. Which technique do you like better: embossed or inked?

After I had stamped, embossed, and die cut all of the tags, I die cut the newer Holes & Reinforcers dies from silver glitter cardstock, then added them to the top of each tag. Not only does this addition reinforce the tag’s hanger, it adds a little extra bling to the tag and makes it look so professional, I think!

Finally, I added loops of Simon Says Stamp Silver Cord to each reinforced hole, creating an easy way to add your handmade tags to a gift. To give these as a gift, I simply strung a variety of the tags onto a Simon Says Stamp Ring Clip and added a pretty coordinating pink bow to make it extra festive!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! Are you feeling the last minute holiday crunch or are you more prepare (and healthier! Cough cough) than me? My kiddos get out of school early today for their Christmas break… nearly 3 weeks of fun and plenty of cookies, chaos, and celebrating! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy holidays!

Hi there! I have been cleaning out my computer of old photos recently, and I realized that I had several projects that I hadn’t had time to blog yet, including these cuties that I created for the Ellen Hutson October 2020 release! I have been in a “stamp a bunch, color a bunch, create a bunch” mood lately, where I stamp or die cut a bunch of images from the same set, then color them up or assemble them, then create as many projects as I can with them, like I’ve done with this Christmas card and double tag trio in today’s post! Today’s projects feature Santa’s List and the coordinating dies, as well as a smattering of older, but still fabulous, products from the Essentials By Ellen line. Let’s get started with the details!

I started by stamping several of the adorable images from Santa’s List onto white Copic-friendly cardstock using Intens-ified Black ink from Hero Arts. I then used my Copic markers in a cheery, traditional combination of bright red, green, and added in a touch of warm gray to add a bit of a modern twist to it. Next, I die cut all of the images using the coordinating dies.

For the card, I create a simple background for my little Santa scene by die cutting the Alpine Snowfall from the Essentials By Ellen line from some plain white cardstock, punching out all of the little bits. (You could totally save these for some “snow” for a shaker project! Wish I’d thought of it then!) I backed the snowy panel with some Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust Sparkle Cardstock for the perfect hint of sparkle.

I arranged my Santa’s List die cuts in a cute little scene on the card front, adhering everything using foam adhesive for lots of dimension. The final step was to tuck a little sentiment from Santa’s List in the corner of the scene to round everything out!

I used the leftovers from my pile of die cuts to create a couple of cute little tags. I began by die cutting the Twirling Flurries die from some plain white cardstock. This die doesn’t really cut anything out; rather, it impresses a beautiful stitched background pattern in your cardstock to create some gorgeous texture.

From this textured background panel, I used the Shipping Tags die to cut four different tags. If your cutting plates look anything like mine, they’re all chewed up and create unsightly marks on the back of your die cuts, which can be problematic if you’re creating tags to put on gifts and want to write on the back. I remedy this by doubling up my tags, which is super easy to do with the Shipping Tags dies, as it cuts four tags at once. I can create two clean tags with just one pass through my die cut machine! I adhered them together, back to back to hide the unsightly marked backs of the tags, then added some cute little Santa’s List die cuts on the front, finally finishing them off with some black twine.

Well, that’s all for today’s projects! Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!