Christmas Tags

For many years, I have made a few hundred package tags as Christmas gifts.  Some are fancy, some simple, all made with love.  Here are a few:

Sharing with Try Stampin' on Tuesday for their Tag challenge.  Shapes were cut with Spellbinder dies.  Stamps from Our Daily Bread Designs, Unity, SU!, etc.  The packages are the negative space of a sticker, snowflakes are plastic embellishments, etc.  I keep a bin with small scraps of fancy papers all year, and use them up for tags.  Some tags have ribbon ties, others metallic elastic. 

Come play along with us at Words 2 Craft By!!

Masculine Vellum

The Male Room Challenge #74 is to create a card using vellum. 

I embossed the vellum with Darice Deer in Forest, and colored with metallic sharpies.  I tried to color with Inka Gold, but it didn't work out so well, and the sharpies worked out better than anticipated.  Yeay!

There's plenty of time left to play with us at Words 2 Craft By for our Abundance challenge!

Happy Birthday!!!

The Cards in Envy challenge is Typography  Create a card with letters or words as the focal point.

SU! Succulants DSP, Sizzix die cuts.  I popped up the flowers and a few leaves.  This card makes me oddly happy....  Come play along with us at Words 2 Craft By for our Abundance challenge!

Happy Birthday

The Cards in Envy challenge is Typography  Create a card with letters or words as the focal point.

SU! DSP cut with Lawn Fawn stitched dies and heat embossed Watercolor Words sentiment.  Spellbinder die cut flower mounted with a thin brad.  Come play along with us at Words 2 Craft By for our Abundance challenge. 

Pretty Wreath

Coloring is not my greatest talent, but I am happy enough with this one. 

The background is an old SU! stamped in grey.  The wreath and sentiment were stamped in the same ink, and colored with Inktense pencils.  Come play along with us at Words 2 Craft By for our Abundance challenge!

Sharing this with Fusion and the Color Throwdown:

Kraft & Red Christmas

I love kraft, red, and white together, especially for Christmas.

Merry Monday Christmas challenge this week is to create a card using just those colors!

We R Memory Keepers die, Kaiser Kraft heat embossed sentiment.  Come join us at Words 2 Craft By for our Abundance challenge!

W2CB #47 - Abundance

Our latest challenge at Words 2 Craft By is My cup runneth over. — Psalm 23:5.

I took the challenge pretty literally.  I have a friend whose (coffee) cup is always full.  Pretty good metaphor for life!  No matter how hard things might be, I need to remember that I am blessed with a wonderful family, good friends, a roof over my head, and plenty to eat.  It hasn't always been that way.   Tim Holtz embossing folder and sentiment (thanks to my coffee loving friend Diana).  The cup was hand cut