25 Tags of Christmas

Hi everyone!  Today I'm participating with Neat & Tangled in Tracey McNeely's 25 Tags of Christmas event.  You can read all about the event over on Tracy's blog, there are lots of ways to earn participate and be eligible for prizes from the sponsors, including Neat & Tangled.

I created a set of tags featuring my new Joyful Sentiments set and older Faceted background set.

I used the Classic Tag 1 die as my tag base.  They were cut from watercolor paper and then masked off at the top and bottom with Post It tape.  

The Faceted background was then stamped using WPlus9 Fairy Dust Ink, and each was painted with watercolors, using a different color scheme for each.  

The sentiments were then embossed with different metallic powders, I used Princess Gold for the gold tag, silver for the blue, and then regular gold embossing for the green and pink/purple tag.

I finished things off with some Whisker Graphics twine, natural with gold for the gold embossed tag and plain natural for the silver.



That's all for me  Be sure to head over to Tracey's to check out all the other tags for today and to get the details on how to win!

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(Grand) Mother's Day Dinner

I scrapbooked!  Actually it's not that bad, I've been scrapbooking semi-regularly of late.  I'm trying to finish up our vacation scrapbook from last year.  My goal is to have it done before we leave for vacation this summer.  I should be able to do it.  I'm about halfway through the trip right now.

Anyway, Saturday was National Scrapbook Day.  I love NSD because although I don't normally get to do a ton of scrapbooking on the actual day due to running kids all over the place, there are always lots of challenges and inspiration (and giveaways) to enter.  The good news is that several of the challenges give you a week or so to enter which is often a great jump-start for my scrapping.

This year I won't be able to get as many challenges done because I'm forcing myself to work in a vacation layout between challenge layouts, but here is my first challenge layout.

For this layout I pulled out a bunch of my Neat & Tangled dies.  The background was created using the largest of the dies from the Triangle Pattern Builder set.  I cut the triangles from white cardstock as well as a seriously old Teresa Collins print.  The patterned paper has a bit of texture to it which adds some extra dimension.  The triangles were arranged in a quilt pattern with some of the triangle pieces missing/blank.



Once the background was complete, I added the photos/mats.  The title was created using my Journaling Alpha and Number dies and adhesive foam.  I popped the title piece up so I could slip the tag (Classic Tag 1 from Neat & Tangled) which was cut from another piece of that Teresa Collins (Tell Your Story) collection behind it.

I'm linking this up with challenges at Studio Calico, Big Picture Classes and Scrapbook.com.  Hoping to get a few more done before the challenges all close. Thanks for stopping by!

Cute Chicks

Simon Says Stamp has a fun product release today which includes an exclusive Neat & Tangled stamp set illustrated by Elena Roussakis.

It's super cute, I just love the little Easter parade that you can create with the chicks and their band leader.

I thought it would be fun to create a couple little tags with the images.



Nothing too fancy, but my girls will appreciate them.

I'm using the Classic Tag from Neat & Tangled as the base and then some simple Copic coloring.

Be sure to stop by over at Simon to check out the full release!

The 25 Days of Christmas Tags

I'm happy to be participating in Tracey McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags event.

Today some of the Neat & Tangled and Little Tangles DT members are sharing tags.

I really enjoy making tags, and once I got started, it was hard to stop!  I ended up with three.



I used the new Classic Tag 1 die for each of these.  For this first one I clear embossed Origami Map on  a tag cut from watercolor paper.  The map was colored with Inktense pencils using a pencil to brush technique (where you just pick up color directly from the pencil using a paintbrush).



The embossing was ironed off, and then the sentiment, using Christmas Journaling and Bible Journaling Companions was stamped using Versafine and clear embossed.  I used Kuretake gold paint to color in the Joy.



Next up a super simple tag design that is perfect for mass producing and easy enough for your kids to help.  I used watercolor paper again, and randomly stamped the circles from Dala Horse in Delicata ink.  The circles were watercolored with Inktense pencils again using the pencil to brush technique.



The sentiment is from Bright Baubles and embossed in gold.



Finally, I had to pull out the Dala Horse Dies.  I created a tag for the N&T release with the Dala Horse stamp set here, but I wanted to show how perfect the dies are for Christmas too.  This was pretty simple.  The tag was die cut from a panel created using the Graduated Stripes Cover Plate.

The Dala Horse was popped up with some foam tape and then the sentiment, from Happy Holidays, was added.



Hope this gives you a few ideas for Christmas.  Be sure to stop by the Neat & Tangled blog, Danielle has a tag up there, and of course stop by Tracey's blog as well.  There are a whole lot of sponsors for this event.  You can leave comments on her 25 Days posts to enter as well as link up a tag.  Good luck!