Tag! You're It!

I have two full cover shaker tags to share today. I admit, I'm the worst at shaker cards. I don't know why...I've watched tons of videos and even made one in a class but I think there are just too many steps where I can mess up. Lolol. But full-cover shakers are easier because you eliminate making a shaker window with die cutting and eliminate the need for foam tape and acetate placement. So these went well!

For this one, I just made a tag with birthday paper from a 6x6 pad from Your Next Stamp that I got in a generous giveaway from Tiffany on IG. Then I trimmed some acetate from a stamp bag to size and secured it to the back of the tag on three sides. I filled the pocket with clay bits and sequins and then folded the fourth side and secured it with tape runner to the back. Then I added the die cut sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps and added a bow.

Using the same paper pack, I cut another tag, and repeated the steps with the acetate. I added the bow and letter stickers (from the same giveaway). I may never try a normal shaker again!

Happy Friday!

Chark

Ornaments Infinity Dies as Gift Tags

I have the Ornaments Infinity dies from Hero Arts and love them. I've been using them as Christmas bulbs, as balloons and on cards. 

Here are a few tags I created for gifts. This first set was made with stencils. The aqua one uses Aquamarine Nuvo Mousse. That stuff is so shiny and so yummy looking. This ornament has a lot of texture. To put a name on this, I will probably use sticker alphabet letters or possibly write on the back. 

For the other ornaments in the same picture, I used a stencil with Gansai Tambi shimmer watercolors and then die cut the ornaments. Again, the shimmer is lovely, though different from the Nuvo paste. I hand lettered the names. I still need to add the ornament top from the die set. 

This set of ornaments uses Distress Oxide inks. I used the Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Salty Ocean. On the little tree ornament, I inked it with shadows and highlights after die cutting. The rest were cut from a sheet of inked cardstock. I used white ink for the highlights. These don't shimmer, but the colors are fab.

If you want these dies you can head over to a2z Scrapbooking and put them into your cart for just $24.95. You also get a little bow die and the ornament toppers as part of the set. It's a lot of dies for the price. Add the Nuvo mousse or some Oxide inks or anything to total $25 in your cart and you can use CHARK15 to get 15% off your cart!

Happy Wednesday!
Chark

Merry Christmas

Hi, my crafty friends, can't believe it's almost Christmas...especially since I still have to get some things!!

Thanks for stopping by throughout the year and for commenting, I always look forward to seeing who stops by. 

Here are some free digi tags if you're like me and still have to wrap some things. This is my favorite one, little chubby Santa.

Hope you have a lovely holiday season!

Happy Friday,
Chark

Friday Freebies For Friends

Thought I'd post some beautiful free digi art images for the holidays today. If you're looking for tags, you can find these adorable tags for FREE from Nina Seven Illustrations at  We Love to Illustrate.

This site also has these free downloadable images from Julissa Mora. The artists at this site are children's illustrators with experience and talent and who just give away some of their amazing work for use by us regular folk. I just love each of their styles. I think I could use this to make an envelope, or make it smaller and write on the back for a tag. It'd make a cute card for a foodie gift if you make those. Cuteness abounds at We Love to Illustrate.

If you like classic tags, here's a freebie from Creature Comforts. This blog has a collection of free tags for use.

And here's another from them. Love the flowery noel.

And I wanted to tell you guys how excited I was to get a little honorable mention shout-out over at the Prima blog. I didn't win, but they featured this tag on their post. It made me happy because this kind of work is a little outside my comfort zone but I thought I'd give it a whirl. I'm loving the Julie Nutting dolls and stamps and this features one of the wooden dolls. I had to Stickle her, of course. But, then, you knew there'd be glitter somewhere.

Happy Last-Friday-Before-Christmas!! I'm off to finish shopping!
Chark

Hiya, Girls!

I used the cutest die cut girls to make some tags and thought I'd share how they turned out. They're from Pretty Little Studio and I just love them so much. Their die cuts are vintage cuteness, don't ya think?

I used Canvas Corp black and ivory printed paper pad for the backgrounds and various distress inks to ink the edges. And then I added little bling bits to spice them up. These shiny hearts are Doodlebug Design.

They were fun to make and I'll probably use the them for gifts or cards. If I can part with them. I may need to buy more for myself. Luckily, they are inexpensive!

Happy Wednesday!
Chark