More Christmas tags and a tutorial!

Well seriously, I love December cause its the one time I can make tags with wild abandon!!!  I love making tags, for me they are such fun little pieces of art that I can complete in a  couple of hours.  I've done a Snapguide tutorial for you for this first tag too!

 Creative Embellishments has the prettiest chippies that work so well with your Christmas tags and other projects!  Here are a couple tags that I made using some of their winter chipboard pieces and Graphic 45's Christmas Carol collection.

Check out How to Make a Layered Tag by Maggi HARDING on Snapguide.

I've used our Pine Cone Clusters and Chipboard Snowflakes on this tag.  I altered the pine clusters  with Lindy's mists, using Mission Bells Brown on the pine cones and Ponderosa Pines Olive and Frosty Forest Green on the pine branches.  I simply painted the snowflakes white and then used Icicle Stickles on both the snowflakes and Pine Cone Clusters to give them a sparkly effect.

Pine Cone Clusters

Chipboard Snowflakes

For this tag,  I used a Spellbinder's Imperial Gold Majesty Circles to diecut the frame behind the fussy cut carolers and then dabbed on some embossing ink and heat embossed with shabby blue embossing enamel.

I made the poinsettias and used our Holly and Berry Flourishes underneath which I colored with Lindy's Ponderosa Pines Olive and Frosty Forest Green. I added some cinnamon stickles for the holly berries.

  Merry Christmas is one of our title sets and comes in a set of two different sized fonts.

 Holly and Berry Flourishes 

Merry Christmas

Thanks for stopping by!

Gifts from the heart and Graphic 45

Any gift that I give that contains Graphic 45 papers is a gift from my heart but when you add homemade love from the pantry,well that is a good as gift giving gets in my book!

I bought a wooden crate at Michael's, it was cheap and on sale, and altered it. I didn't repaint it as it was already a nice white distressed color.  Here's a before look:

I removed the metal piece from the front, (you bet I tucked it away for a future use) and proceeded to alter it with design paper from Graphic 45's The Christmas Carol and Home Sweet Home collections. The colors in these two collections blend beautifully together and I wanted to create something that would be cute in the kitchen throughout the year.  So when you remove the Merry Christmas tags and sign, it works for any season.

This would make a great gift for a neighbor, teacher or just someone you care about.  Mason jars are so trendy right now so this gift is sure to impress..  I've filled my crate with home made apple slices, applesauce and cinammon pickles.  You could take mason jars and fill them with candies - chocolate anyone?  How about a cake in a jar?  Check Pinterest for some great food gift ideas using Mason jars!

I used some wonderful blueberry chipboard pieces from Creative Embellishments that go so perfectly with the Home Sweet Home collection as there are berry clusters in the design paper that I used.

Those large red flowers are Petaloo Botanica blooms.  I love the Botanica series!

Supplies List

Christmas Carol collection (12 x 12):

Christmas Carol

Yuletide Greetings

Good Cheer             

Bah Humbug

Tags and Pockets

Decorative Chipboard

Home Sweet Home collection (12 x 12):

Garden Fresh

Country Fresh

Decorative Chipboard

Other Supplies:

Wood crate from Michaels

Creative Embellishments Blueberries chipboard

Blue and white paint

Core-dinations Signature Series Lights Spring Green cardstock

Lindy's Gator Gumbo Olive Mist

Petaloo Botanica red flowers

Petaloo Fancy Trims - burlap

I Am Roses - white and red roses/gardenias

ColorBox Graphic 45 Decades ink -Triumphant Red, Antique Moss, Bon Voyage Blue

Die-namites large ivy die

Ribbon 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!  Be sure and stop by the Graphic 45 blog too and see some other great gift, decor, cards and tag ideas!

Woot! Woot!

I am so excited that I get to stay on the Creative Embellishments Design Team for another term!! Thank you Nicolle!  Vist the Creative Embellishments blog to see the rest of my teamies.

Creative Embellishments carries a great line of chipboard, wood veneers, stamps and flair.  Lots of great sales going on all the time AND we have a monthly challenge where you could win a $50 GC to the store.  Stop by the store frequently or our blog to see what's going on!

A Christmas Project with Graphic 45

The countdown is on,  it will be Christmas Day in less than two weeks.  Yikes!!!

This was a fun project that I did yesterday morning and it only took me a couple hours!  Ok, I will confess, I used a Silouette cut file to cut everything out, then I just had fun embellishing it!  The file I used is called 3D Elf Foot Stocking Bag and I increased the size of it by 165%.    I filled it with chocolate and took it to one of my aunts.   I am sure she will enjoy it!  This would make a great gift for a neighbor or teacher if you need just a little something to say I am thinking about you or I appreciate you.

I made the poinsettias using a Sizzix poisettia die and used gold Stickles for the centers. I diecut some holly leaves and pine boughs to use under the poinsettias and made a pinecone, all with dies. I love the giant jingle bells, they are from Darice.

I fussy cut the nutcracker from Nutcracker Sweet to embellish the back.

The two sides are essentially the same except that I only had 3 bells, so on this side I added a couple of chipboard pieces to the bell cluster.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, I do appreciate it so much!  Happy Holidays to you, hope they are filled with love, family and laughter!

Tags for your gifts in less than 10 minutes!

The wrapping on my gifts is as important to me as the gift inside so I like my hand crafted gift tags to take center stage on my packages.  Oh but this time of year is so so busy, that sometimes it's hard to get all those tags made!  I designed a simple but elegant  tag to share with you, that can easily be mass produced.

The great thing about these tags is that you can use up alot of your scraps when making these.

In my video I will show you two similar, but different tags, that you can quickly make. In fact, my video is less than 9 minutes and I make 2 tags, so you know these are quick!

If you are recycling packaging tags as I did with some of my tags, a quick way to finish the back is to cover the back with washi tape!

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Christmas Carol Collection 8 x 8 pad - various pages and cut-aparts - use your scraps!

Graphic 45 Staples Ivory Regular Tags or cut your own tags.  These are about 3 7/8 x 5 3/4"

Other:

Ivory and green cardstock scraps to cut small frames and greenery

Petaloo Pointsettias

Corner Rounder

Spellbinders Nestabilities Opulent Ovals or any other oval die or punch

Elizabeth Crafts Spring with Berries or any other greenery die or punch

Foam tape or cardboard

Twine, string or narrow ribbon for ties

Adhesive

A Christmas Carol house!

Remember my poodle dog house treat box?  I've always wished that I had done a  video tutorial for this, and so, I decided to do it over again, but this time, as a Christmas house.  They are built exactly the same, just embellished differently.

I've used Graphic 45 Christmas Carol papers to make this and you can see a complete supply list at the bottom of this picture heavy post!  There are a lot of details that I wanted to share.

Click here for the link to the roof template.

Another view of the front.

Fussy cut carolers.

Left side embellished with chipboard from the collection.   

View of the back, embellished with chipboard from the collection and a fussy cut piece.

Graphic 45's Staples Antique Metal Door Pulls make great flower boxes!

Box opened, the inside would look great lined with paper too.

Here is a list of supplies that I used.  Use what you have on hand, if you don't have something I've used, try something else, that way you really make it your own.  Of course you are free to copy mine but I'd appreciate it if you'd link back to my blog.

Supplies (links to the Flying Unicorn Store & Creative Embellishments Store)

Graphic 45 A Christmas Carol Collection 12 x 12:

Scrooge and Marley - outside of the house

Graceful Garland - inside and back of house

Figgy Pudding or Ephermera Cards - fussy cut carolers and Merry Christmas oval

Christmas Carol Journaling Chipboard

Decorative Chipboard

8 x 8 Collection:

Yuletide Greetings - shingles on the roof

Staples:

ATC Book Box - I used kraft, any color would work

Antique Metal Door Pull

Other:

Red Cardstock for gable ends

Green Cardstock for diecut holly

lightweight cardboard

Prima Chantilly Metal Knobs

Prima A Victorian Christmas Joyeux Noel flowers

Petaloo Darjeeling Poinsettias

I am Roses - red in 3 sizes

Creative Embellishments Fairy Doorset 1

Stickles - Red, Icicle, Crystal

Die-namites Holly Branch die

McGill Designer Pine punch

Aleene's Glitter Snow

Prima Color Bloom Frost mist

White paint

May Arts -  5/8 Inch Wired String w/ Mini Raffia Bows - Green

May Arts -  5/8 Inch Textured/Lines Ribbon - Hunter Green

I'd love to see your house if you make one, please post it on Facebook and be sure to tag me, Maggi Harding!

Tis the season for making tags!

I like to make cookies for some special people in my life and my large tags are perfect for dressing up that cookie tin. To make your tags really look special, pop up your paper layers with cardboard or foam tape. You can really go crazy with dimension on tags as you won't be trying to fit them in an envelope.

Graphic 45's Christmas Carol collection is perfect for making tags and cards.  I've used a cut-apart, a tag and pocket and some patterns from the 6 x 6 pad.

I love putting small tags and pockets on my big tags so that I have a place where I can write a special note for my gift recipient.

 Here you can see the tag out of the pocket.

Beautiful Petaloo blooms embellish my tag, making it a real beauty!

Supplies:

Graphic 45 Christmas Carol Collection (12 x 12) -

Good Cheer 4501191

Scrooge and Marley 4501192

Tags & Pockets

6 x 6 Patterns & Solids

Graphic 45 large tag   

Other:

Petaloo Botanica Sugared Blooms Burgundy

Elizabeth Crafts Sprig with Berries

Burgundy Stickles

Uline foam tape

ColorBox Graphic 45 Decades Triumphant Red ink

ColorBox Deep Green chalk ink

Ribbon

We'll be showing a lot of tags on the Graphic 45 blog during December, so be sure to stop by often and see what's up!

Thanks for stopping in!

New challenge at Creative Embellishments!

I used Prima Royal Menagerie papers for this layout, love how I was able to turn it into a wintery scene.  I used a snowflake mask on the background and Prima Color Bloom mist on the background.  The pine trees are a Tim Holtz Alterations diecut.  I used Deco-Art Glistening Snow-tex to create the snowy look on the trees.

I really love the snowflake borders and the snowflake title.  I simply painted them with white paint and then dabbed on lots of Icicles Stickles.  There are two snowflake borders in a package and I used both of them on this layout.

These pine cone clusters are just so fantastic.  I colored the cones  with a little Lindy's Mission Bells Brown and the pine needles with Lindy's Frost Forest Green and Ponderosa Pines Olive.  Then I dry brushed on some white paint to make them look snowy.   I also dry brushed the Petaloo flowers that top the pine cone clusters.  Finally I used lots of Stickles in Icicle and Crystal  to give everything a snowy sparkly look, 

Pine Cone Clusters

Chipboard Snowflakes

Snowflake Borders

Snow Word Set

Challenge Rules:

>Create a NEW project layout, mini album, tag, card, canvas, etc….as of 1st of December 2015..

>Please add your entry to our InLinkz box on the Creative Embellishments challenge blog post to be eligible for the prize. You have until the last day of each month 11:55 pm eastern time to enter.

>It is required that you mention in your blog post that you are playing along at Creative Embellishments together with a link back to our blog. Please make sure to reference our challenge. Please no back linking.

>Combining with other challenges is permitted.

> PLEASE USE AT LEAST 1 OF  CE products on your projects.

>WINNERS will have 2 weeks to claim their prize. The winners are announced the day after the challenge ends and on the same month’s challenge post on the Creative Embellishments blog. 

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope to see your challenge entry on the Creative Embellishments blog!