Die cut tags

Two more tag designs for my tag making day this weekend.  Same two designs done in two different colour ways.

I've made something similar to the striped design before, and it's a quick and easy tag to get people started on. 

For the poinsettia tag, I used a Spellbinders die set, and just put together a little spray using all the bits.  I went for two bright tags, and two classic ones.

Yeti's and St. Nick

Two more tags for my upcoming tag making day.  The first is using the fun Yeti or Not set from Lawn Fawn.

This is a larger tag, with plenty of room to create a scene.  I stamped the mountains, and coloured the sky with a little light ink blending, and added a glitter paper snow bank to the lower edge.  The yeti's were coloured with Copic markers, and are popped up on 3D foam adhesive, along with the sentiment.  I tucked a few trees in behind.

This tag features the Jolly St. Nick die, stamp and stencil set by Concord & 9th.  The shapes are precut, and people will add the details with the stencils and stamped sentiment.  The shape is layered over another white shape, with a scored hinge that is glued at the top so that you can write inside the tag.

AAL&Create Shaker Tags

 I am hosting a tag making day with friends this weekend, so have been prepping like crazy for the past couple of weeks!  These are two shaker tags that we're making using the Elf set from AAL&Create.

Since the ladies aren't all papercrafters, I've done a lot of the prep for them, stamping, colouring (Copics) and fussy cutting.  The idea is to make fun tags, not worry about learning colouring techniques.

These images are SO cute!  The girl tag will also be a shaker, but I made her sample in other papers, so am just showing the bits and pieces.

Lindy's Magical Powders

I had a very fun play day recently with the Amber Ledgers Magical Powders from Lindy's.  I'm not generally a messy style of crafter, but these weren't that bad!  They come in individual shakers filled with powder - a set of five.

I sprinkled multiple colours onto some Canson XL Watercolour paper, then spritzed with water, and simply let the powders melt, watching the pigments blend and move around.

Where there was just powder, I added more water.  And if an area was too sparse, I added more powder and spritzed again.

I wanted fairly intense colours - and got them!  I worried that I'd gone overboard, but they brightened up once my panels had dried.  I used various dies to cut out my panels, and then had to flatten them under a heavy book to reduce the warping.

I had thought that the brown would be my least used colour, but it turned out to be this amazing copper shade - and as everything dried, I couldn't believe the shimmer!  It led me to trying to add some leaves hot foiled in copper, wondering if I could hot foil on top of the powders.  While the results weren't perfect (watercolour paper isn't ideal for foiling), the slightly distressed look of the foiling fit the overall vibe of the cards.

To go with my cards, I hot foiled the We Are Everything Sentiments set from Spellbinders with Copper foil on their black cardstock - love the effect.  I added a few copper jewels to my cards and popped up the sentiments with foam adhesive.

You

I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge in the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group.  This is U is for U... I was really struggling with what to do for 'U', so finally decided to pull out my Art Impressions font dies and cut a bunch of U's from some old Basic Grey Lauderdale papers.

I kind of love the background!  Then just decided to do something simple with the 'You' Say it with Stamps set from Photoplay.  Thinking this is a perfect nephew card.

A Yeti Birthday

I needed a birthday card for our 9 year old great nephew, so pulled out the Yeti or Not stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

Lawn Fawn never disappoints!  I coloured these cuties up with my Copic markers, and fussy cut them out, along with a few accessories.  The plaid is ancient LF paper from my stash, and I grabbed my Art Impressions font to create 'COOL'.  This came together really easily.

More St. Nick

I posted this card design a few weeks ago, and was able to revisit it to create seven more!

After ink blending with the Jolly St. Nick stencils from Concord & 9th, I stamped the Waffle Flower postage images and added a few bits of stamped greenery.  I used the Postage Rectangle dies from Spellbinders to make him into a giant stamp.

I was able to use up most of these older Lawn Fawn holiday plaid papers, and adhered the stamp down with 3D foam adhesive.