My favorite challenge is back!

Hehe! More tags from me today! Tracey's Tag You're It Challenge is back this month and I'm excited to participate! The theme is "Love is in the Air" and I made two tags using the Close To My Heart True Love stamp set.

This first tag is most appropriate for the theme since it includes balloons floating in the air. Nothing special here other than the stamps, kraft cardstock and Copic marker coloring of the image.

The second tag uses the little girl from the same stamp set and I also used some old-school chalk to color the background a bit. The Valentine's Day sentiment is from a different stamp set but it's been around for a long time and I'm not sure who made it any more!

Holiday Tags: Elegant Wreath

Here's another tag I made for Tracy McNeely's 25 Days of Tags. This one is based on Tracy Freeman's Day 9 Tag.

Instead using a diecut, I decided to use a stamp and curve it into a wreath shape then heat emboss the image. The branch shape is from Kerri Bradford's Deck the Halls stamp set. The pattern paper is from Carta Bella Rock-a-Bye Baby Boy collection. I also used Hero Arts white embossing powder.

Holiday Tags!

I'm back after years of ignoring my blog! The reason is that I've really been enjoying Tracy McNeely's 25 Days of Christmas Tags and decided to participate in the challenge. So, I've been focusing my craft time, which is severely limited these days, on making tags inspired by Tracy and her guest designers. This first tag is from Day 2, and is inspired by Svitlana Shayevich's tag.

The wreath stamp is a very old Studio G stamp and the sentiment is Lawn Fawn Tiny Tag Sayings. I used Prismacolor pencils to color the holly leaves and red rhinestone gems from a Target dollar spot pack.

A little late...Happy Holidays card

You might have thought that you had seen the end of Christmas cards. Not if you are reading my blog! I actually ended up making this card for a teacher after the holidays were over because my kids had a snow day on the last day of school and so I had time to actually make cards to send in with their holiday gifts when school started back up!

I could say this card was inspired...but the truth is that it's pretty much a copy of the card that Kristina Werner made on Day 18 of her Holiday Card Series posts. I love the combination of bright Christmas red on the kraft card. It just sings to me. I used my very fun Unity Stamp Co. Tags, Glorious Tags holiday set for both the framed image and the sentiment. I also used some "twine" that I purchased from Pick your Plum and discovered that it's pretty much cotton string rather than baker's twine. Much thicker than the more high quality twine you can buy - but it works and I really like the final product!

On the inside of the card I added some candy cane striped washi tape to the top and bottom to give it a little pizazz, but I'm not including a picture of that because it's not really that interesting!

Ok. With any luck I will be moving onto Valentine's Day cards before the holiday actually arrives! Stay tuned for that post any day now...

Holiday Tags

I like making tags, but my very favorite are definitely Christmas tags! A month or so ago I bought a new Unity Stamp kit called "Tags, Glorious Tags!". Just perfect for me! Here are my first two tag creations with it...

I used the Tags set and also one Close to My Heart stamp that I already had in my stash. Papers are from an older DCWV holiday pack.

Thanks for taking a look...and an early Merry Christmas to you!

It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween!

Here's a fun card I made using Unity Stamp Co.'s Bones About Halloween. I had no idea the skeleton was going to be so huge when I ordered this stamp set! I still think the kids will have fun with it when I let them have a chance to stamp with it though. I'm using one of their favorite jokes for this time of the year...

The front

And the inside!

I also used one of my favorite alpha stamp sets from Close to My Heart and used my Silhouette cutter for the banner and frame on the inside. Happy Fall everyone!

Valentine

Here's quick post of a simple little stamped valentine's tag I made today. A cute play on words, don't you think?

 The whale stamp is by Unity Stamp Co. and the fun sentiment is pulled together with my own writing and a couple stamps by Stampendous. Happy Valentine's Day!