Gift for a Friend

Hi Crafty friends! Hope you're enjoying the last of a very long summer.

I've been enjoying The Greetery's 'Handiwork', and just completed an

8 tag set for a dear friend.

My friend and I share a love for all things vintage, handmade and collectable. 

The 2 of us can loose hours in an antique shop, a fine fabric shop, and  don't

even get me started on vintage fairs!

This release hit every handiwork button in my heart. I've already made half a dozen

cards with the fabulous dies, stamps and all the  fun items, but I LOVE  making

tags, and just had to see how all the sweet smaller  embroidery hoops would work out.

My dear sweet friend is a quilter, an artist, and so much more. I don't think 

there's anything she can't do with her talented hands.

Betsy gave us 7 of these little hoops in different shapes, but I stretched it to 8 by using

the square twice.

Each little hoop is basically the same design,  with a different flower.

All  8 tags can be added to birthday,  or other special celebration gift.

All tags have a little bloom  tail, and  a  pearl.

My set of tags needed a box, and I had this one made, with slightly different colors. I 

added the color scheme of my tags, together with a large embroidery hoop,

and more notions. 

Betsy thought of every sweet detail, from the hoop, to the fabric and stitched florals.

Added some felt to the pincushion, and pink pearl handles to the scissors.

All 8 tags fit perfectly inside their box.

If you stayed with me, thank you!  You get the reward for hanging in there!

Have a great day, my crafty friends!

The Greetery:

Stationary Box

Deco Triangle Stencils

Macrame Diamonds Die

Hoopla Mini Die

Aida Cloth Texture Plate

Embroidered Background Stamp

Speed Tagging Did

Stitched Sentiments Stamps and Die

Day 19: 25 Days of Christmas Tags

 

 Beware of serious cuteness on this post today!

I warned you! Day 19 of 25 Days Christmas Tags and the sponsor is Waffle Flower.

No Christmas stamps or dies from WF in my collection. I LOVED my friend

Jeanne Jackna's tag (below),  and definitely wanted to create my own version.

Jeanne's style is colorful and always happy. This tag is no exception.

Smiled the minute I saw it!

I chose a few different companies to put my tag together:

SSS: Gnome for the Holidays

Flora & Fauna: Bohemian Woodland Animals

Memory Box: Love Grows

MFT: Treat Tag

 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day 19 

Day 17: 25 Days of Christmas Tags

 

Day 17 and the 25 Days of Christmas Tags is on a roll! You have to check out Tracey's 

blog, and all the sponsors with their gift certificate prizes, and even some 

surprise sponsors too! The tags have been over the top fantastic, both designers and

designers on line. Really the best year so far!

Today's sponsor is Picket Fence. I have no  picket fence stamps or dies, and 

was taken with their Christmas line. So much diversity, fun stamps and

elegant stamps, lots of dies too.

I chose Angela Bode's beautiful tag below for several reasons to case.

1st off, it's beautiful. 2nd the tree... I have a wood mounted tree in my stash from 

years ago from Hero Arts. It hasn't been inked in forever, and I've always loved

it's graceful image. And 3rd, the bold red snowflakes! Had to give that a try.

The result was such a fun tag, I made 8! 

The only difference between them is the largest snowflake on the bottom, just

couldn't decide which I liked better, so I used all three! 

My tree is silver embossed, and I added a sentiment also embossed on a black strip.

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day 17

PTI: Tagsale die

Hero Arts: Evergreen

Memory Box: Snowflake Trio

Day Day 11: 25 Days of Christmas Tags

 

We're on Day. 11 at 25 Days of Christmas Tags. I chose Amanda Wilcox as my

inspiration today, and just look at her gorgeous tags below

She designs for Birch Press, and I loved the delicate snowflake with the

Christmas message banner. 

 My snowflakes are from Poppystamps: Stained Glass Snowflake and it's background

dies. Banner and sentiment from PTI.

With my tags I also cut a second tag for messaging, because the Background is from 

shimmer, and is hard to write on.

Are you playing along? Serious fun each day, and fabulous inspiration!

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 10

 

Day 10 of tag making, and the sponsor today is Reverse Confetti.

I loved the striking black ornament Kathy Schweinfurth made, and

duplicated it with Poppystamps dies. See Kathy's tag below

The letters JOY with the flower in place of the 'O' is adorable!

Thank you Kathy!

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 4

Day 4 of 25 Days of Christmas tags, and today it's Newton's Nook being showcased.

Unfortunately I have not 1 Christmas stamp or die, so I chose Lindsey's 

beautiful tag below for inspiration.

Lindsey Larsen designs for Concord and 9th, so I chose one of their stamps from

my stash and used Lindsey's layout, colors and poinsettia swag for my tag.

Day 4... done. Day 5, tomorrow

 

Christmas Tags

Hello friends!

Have you ever started a day making something, and hours later realized you spent

the whole day 'making'????

I was late ordering 'Speed Tag Christmas' from the Greetery, but always

 wanted it. When it came in the mail, I began to stamp, and die cut, and stamp some

more, and die cut more.... well you get the idea.

I think I stopped at 50!

Speed tagging is the genius of Betsy Veldman (the Greetery).

The large 6 x 6" stamp gives you 7 images at once. The die is made to fit perfectly over

the stamped image, producing 7 tags with one die cut! I told you, genius!

The only problem... hard to stop once you get started.

And then there's the sentiment and cute little Christmas images to adorn your

speedy tags. 

I added some of my favorites from other sets Betsy released, that fit perfectly on

the front of the tags

have you made any tags for Christmas? Hope I inspired you a bit

to check out the Speed Tagging Christmas set from the Greetery.

Be warned... you may not be able to stop!

Poppystamps Challenge Reminder: ABC Anything But a Card

Hi there! It's time for a challenge reminder! Poppystamps Challenge Reminder:

ABC or Anything But a card. 

I chose to make a trio of tags for some of the grands going back to school this week.

These darling Narwhals come complete with sentiments that say just the right thing

to a young gent starting kindergarten. 

I used Poppy's tag, Stitched Tunnel Tags. Sadly they are not in the store any more. 

But Poppystamps has many other great tags.

If you'd like to learn more about how this set was created, visit the 

Poppy blog. And don't forget there's a blog blitz going on with lots

of prizes!

Enjoy your  week!

Laurie's Fabulous Favorites: Tags

Well it seems each week a Laurie chooses a favorite, I find myself saying,

'that's my favorite too!'

This week it's tags. I LOVE making tags. Special ones for special gifts

that are going to special people.

These fun birthday tags are going on gifts to a special guy in my life.

Easy and bright, and hopefully on the boy-ish side, they came together in a snap with

PTI's dies.

Made With Love 3 Tags

Papertrey Ink - Birthday Style Die Collection (set of 2)

PTI Shimmer Cardstock

PTI Pattern Paper

Hope you're enjoying a wonderful week, with plenty of crafting time!

25 Days of Christmas Tags: Day 21

It's the last day of Tracey's 25 Days of Christmas tags, and I have one more set of tags

to post.

I used Carol Mayne's set of four colorful tags for my muse.

PapertreyInk's Holiday Tag Along with Tremendous Treats: Christmas provided all the 

goodies for my tags.

Last day for posts by Tracey and her team, and all the marvelous holiday

inspiration by the companies, but you still have time to add your tags!

Check out all the details here:

25DaysTagsRedChristmas.png

Tag You're It Mini Challenge

As I sometimes do, I went visiting this beautiful Sunday, 

and began with blogfriend Marybeth from Marybeth's time for Paper, 

which led me to a new challenge,

featuring tags,

and some more blog 'friends',

and their wonders of tags to inspire!

I love doing tags, and plan to visit often.

Here's the challenge tag by Karin Akesdotter:

And here's what I did:

PTI cardstock and inks

Waltzingmouse: Oceanbound & Tying the Knot Stampsets.

Mister Huey's Color Mist: Shine

Gold EP.

Ribbon and Twine: My stash

I mounted the embossed seahorse onto coaster board before fussy cutting it

That's Winter wonderland ep, one of my fav's at Christmas time!

It's a mini challenge and you only have 'till Wednesday to play.

Find the all new challenge here:

Design Team Announcement and a Mini Challenge