Stamptastic Friends December Blog Hop Gift Wrap

Welcome to the Stamptastic Friends December Blog Hop as we showcase gift wrapping ideas to help you with your last minute preparations for the holidays. Can you believe that Christmas Eve is just one week away? Don't worry, our Design Team has some wonderful ideas and projects to help inspire you to get creative.

When it comes time to wrap the Christmas presents, I find I am always looking for gift tags at the last minute. Sometimes it's because I can't find the left over tags from last year and other times it is because we have simply run out. One of my favorite things to do with left over Christmas designer series paper, is to use it to create simple gift tags to have on hand when I need them. Today I created two tags using scraps from the Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper along with the Beary Cute stamp set. As you can see, they are fun and festive and simple to make.

Products Used:

Beary Cute stamp set (item #162016) Retiring

Joy of Noel stamp set (item #161959) Retiring

Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper (item #162015) Retiring

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Balmy Blue Cardstock (item #146982)

Balmy Blue Classic Ink Pad (item #147105)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

2022-2024 In Color Baker's Twine Pack (item #159195)

Measurements:

Basic White Cardstock

2 Pieces - 2" x 8" (Scored at 4")

Beary Christmas Designer Series Paper

2 Pieces - 1 3/4" x 3 3/4" 

Fox & Deer fussy cut with Paper Snips

Balmy Blue Cardstock

Sentiments heat embossed and fussy cut with Paper Snips

These cute gift tags are so much fun to create and a great way to use up your scraps of designer series paper. I added the designer series paper piece to the front of the tag and added the fussy cut animal that can be found on one of the sheets of this paper pack. For the sentiment, I heat embossed the image with White embossing powder onto Balmy Blue cardstock and fussy cut them out to create two separate pieces, so that they fit easily on the tag. I adhered them the sentiments to the tag to complete the design. For the tie, I used a piece of Tahitian Tide Baker's Twine and wrapped it around the spine of the tag and tied a knot at the top and then another knot to create the loop. For the inside of the tag, I stamped the To/From image from the Joy of Noel stamp set onto the inside of the tag with Balmy Blue Classic ink and then stamped snowflakes from the Beary Cute stamp set to embellish the inside. This style of tag is very easy to mass produce and you can create a wide variety of designs just by using up your scraps. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my tags will help inspire you to get creative and come up with your own wonderful ideas to create fun and festive tags for your gifts. There are so many wonderful options to explore.

Please take a moment to visit with my fellow Design Team members and visit their blogs by using the Roll Call List below. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop. 

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Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
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Fun with Black & White Tags

Hi Everyone,
Sorry I have been absent for so long. My kids are all back in school and we are slowly getting into a regular routine. With my husband away on business, I have been taking care of everything which has meant very little time for stamping and creating.
So today I thought I would share with you some tags that I created for a swap that I participated in recently. I belong to a wonderful group called Art of the Creative Mind, where we explore creating art using mixed media. It is a lot of fun and really has given me the opportunity to think outside the box.
Anyway, this particular swap was to create two Black & White Tags. Now, I have never really played with this combination before as I tend to gravitate towards color, so this was a fun challenge for me.

I decided to have one tag be black and the other white to explore the different contrasts. I also decided to use two different embossing techniques - heat embossing and dry embossing using my Sizzix Big Shot.

For the Black Tag I used the Stampin' Up Background stamp, En Francais, and stamped it with Whisper White Craft ink. Using white embossing powder and my heat gun, I heat embossed the tag and loved the texture and look of the bold white script on the black cardstock.

To embellish this tag, I used my Scallop Circle punch to punch out my flower shape and then cut between every second scallop towards the center to create the petals. I stamped the pattern using a stamp from the Elements of Style stamp set from Stampin' Up, using Basic Black Classic ink. The small black center flower was punched from black cardstock using the Boho Blossoms punch and I used a clear rhinestone jewel to accent the center of the flower.

The small white tag was dry embossed using my Big Shot and the Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing folder that is exclusive to Stampin' Up. Then I created my sentiment using the For You stamp, also from the Elements of Style stamp set with Basic Black Craft ink and heat embossed it using black embossing powder to add some dimension. I matted it onto a slightly larger circle of black cardstock. The ribbons were some scraps I had left over from another project and just seemed to finish it off.

For the white tag, I decided to again use my Big Shot and the Vintage Wallpaper Textured Impressions Embossing folder to emboss the background to add texture. I created the border across the top using the new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch from Stampin' Up.  The flowers were punched from white and black cardstock using the Boho Blossoms punch and I accented the centers of each of the flowers with Dazzling Diamonds for a little sparkle.

The letter F and friends were stamped in Basic Black Craft ink and heat embossed using black embossing powder. The stamped images were created with the Vintage Vogue stamp set from Stampin' Up. I carefully cut out the letter F to help it stand out against the white embossed cardstock. I again used a scrap of black ribbon to create the tie for the tag.

These tags can be used for many different projects. You can use them as gift tags, bookmarks, or as an element for your card or scrapbook page. I had so much fun creating these tags and they really are a wonderful way to explore new techniques and color combinations.

I hope you have enjoyed today's creative stamping project and I hope that it will inspire you to try experimenting with tags. Have a wonderful day.

Until Next Time.

Stampin' Hugs,

Tricia Butts

http://www.triciabutts.stampinup.net/