
Hi Friends! I hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving!! Now...it’s Black Friday and it's time for the Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge and a BIG Black Friday Sale at Taylored Expressions! Taylor is releasing a brand new set of Stacklets today - Labels Stacklets 3 and you can get them now - one week before December Release Week! Woo Woo!
Have you been joining along with us every month on our Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge? It's been such a fun new thing that we're doing. Each month, Taylor challenges us with a crafty question...
The question for November is:
"As crafters, we often talk about a hand-crafted Christmas. How much stamping do you do for the holidays? Do you mail hand-stamped cards, make gift packaging, tags, handmade gifts? Or do you stamp year-round, but not so much for Christmas? Please show us some handmade tags and share a tip or two on how to keep stamping fun for the holidays."
I do a lot of stamping for the holidays!! Each year I hand make about 75 Christmas and Holiday cards for our friends and family. I also write a corny Christmas letter too! I love to make tags for packages, and even make my own stamped wrapping paper! You can buy plain wrapping paper at the craft store and make it customized! Sometimes I make treat wrappers or boxes for co-workers and gal pals too. It seems that I have more ideas than time....isn't that the way?
This was a fun challenge today....because I love making TAGS! Here are my creations for our blog hop today... Snow people in fun bright colors!

The snow peeps and the tiny stamped snowflakes are from the set called 'The Cool Crowd' and the sentiment is from 'Peppermint Place.' I used tons of dies for this project, and they're all listed with photos at the bottom of my post. I think the colors made the whold vibe kind of whimsical and Suessian!

Here's a close up of my festive scallops and the adorable sentiment. I added sparkles of superfine glitter all over the place.

I hand made my own tags out of kraft paper and then embossed them with the 'Musical/Swirls' Impression plate. After I embossed them, I went over the swirls with a sponge and some white pigment ink to make them look snowy. This is a cool trick to "pop" the embossed parts of cards - use ink over them!

Here are all my dies and tags ready to rock-n-roll!

I stamped my snow people in black ink onto circles and then added a couple of snowflakes. I later edged the circles with light blue ink.


Here you can see the swirled background and the beautiful 'Make a Snowflake' dies... For the top of the tags I combined some ribbon with twine and a button, for a homey feeling. I used the green paper to make a grommet...

My Copic Palette for this project - yum!



Okay...so when I was done with my fun and bright snow peeps tags, I still had all my TE Christmas supplies on my desk, so I decided to make another tag! This time I made a very traditional and vintage tag using red and green. This has a completely different feeling to it.

The die cut word Merry comes along with the 'Very Merry' stamp set! The holly dies are from the 'Very Merry' outlines die set.

I used the music side of the same impression plate I used for my snowman tags! It's very cool that it is double sided. (Musical/Swirls Impression Plate) This time, instead of using white ink, like above, I went over the impression with some brown distress ink. LOVE this technique! So versatile.

This was the fun part....lots of chunky white snowy glitter!!! Feels so vintage!


Make sure to head on over to the TE Store for the amazing Black Friday Sale!!! You won't be disappointed! The prices are awesome...especially for the early birds!









That was a long post! Lots and lots to share today. I know that the other Design Team Members have AMAZING tags to share with you too! Won't you please hop around? Here's the link list:
