Ok, so Christmas is only 2 days away! Eep! Are you ready and have all your presents wrapped? I’ll admit, I have most of them wrapped but not all of them!
But wrapping presents got me thinking about gift tags and I was going crazy with the No Peeking set and had so much fun playing with my ribbon and paper scraps to make a variety of tags for this year. Check out what I made:
It all started with me stamping a bunch of images on scrap paper and then picking up extra cardstock scraps from around my craft table and punching or cutting them into roughly tag shapes.
First I grabbed some Gumball Green and heat embossed the “No peeking” sentiment with white embossing powder. Then I punched them out and added some ribbon and cut out stamped images
Next were some simple flap style tags. I scored them so that the heat embossed sentiment (white for the “no peeking” and Early Espresso for the “Jolly Christmas”) would show when it was closed. Then I decorated the flap with cut out stamped images and ribbon.
Next I was on to some more simple tags. I just embossed or stamped the images of the penguin and reindeer and cut them out, then layered them onto the Real Red scallop and Gumball Green circle. Stamp the “To: From:” sentiment on the back and you are good to go!
Finally, my last set were my random experiments. I had an extra reindeer on a scallop circle and thought it would look cute on a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock (really like how this turned out) and I tried to leave enough space so you can actually write who it is to and from. (I had thought this through in my head before seeing how much space there actually was!)
And finally, my ultimate in playing. I had the scrap of Crumb Cake and Real Red and decided to do a twisted tag. I stamped and then heat embossed the penguin in Basic Black (it looks awesome heat embossed by the way) and then colored in some of the spaces with my Real Red marker. Then I stamped a little bird next to him also in Basic Black (you can see how much nicer it looks embossed this way). Then I added some “snowballs” aka pearls along the side.
So there you have it! Some quick last minute gift tags to add a touch of handmade to your projects.
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No Peeking Gift Tags Recipe
Stamps: No Peeking
Ink: Basic Black marker, Gumball Green, Real Red marker, Early Espresso, Basic Black, Versamark
Paper: Gumball Green, Real Red, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories: Stampin’ trimmer, 1 3/4” scallop circle, 1 1/4” circle punch, Real Red stitched grosgrain ribbon, Whisper White stitched grosgrain ribbon, Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon, Cherry cobbler bakers twine, Embossing Powder (white, black, early espresso), basic pearls, Real Red 1/8” taffeta ribbon, 1/16” hole punch, heat gun, embossing buddy, Stampin’ Dimentionals