Taylored Expressions November Studio Challenge - Tags!

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:  

• Charmaine Ikach
• Jen Shults
• Jodi Collins
• Karen Giron
• Melody Rupple
• Regina Mangum
• Sankari Wegman
• Shannon White
• Shelly Mercado
• Stephanie Kraft
• Taylor VanBruggen
• Wanda Guess
• Kerri Michaud (Guest Designer) 

 

Comments

[Holly AKA KopyKat]

OMGosh these are so fabulous, anyway you could make my tags this year? lol.

[Cindy aka Scrapcollectr]

So beautiful, Wanda. I love all the textured touches. *smile*

[Shannon White]

Oh Wow!! These are all Fabulous Wanda!! Love your Sweet Suessian Snowmen tags AND your Vintage Merry tag too! So many fun details Loving all the texture, sparkle and die cuts you put together! 8-)

Hugs
Shannon

[julie]

What a great idea! I love these tags. I was telling my friends about your blog just this morning!

[Fonda Jo]

What adorable tags! Love the traditional one also. Great ideas. Thanks for sharing!!

[Holly Saveur]

WOW LOVE both styles realy wouldn't know which one to chose they are soooooooooooooooo gorgeous!!!

[Kristy]

Super cute tags Wanda! I think I'm going to have to get the Trim the Tree die!! Love the glitter!

[Stephanie Kraft]

Wonderful tags, Wanda! Love the fun colors and layers on the snow people tags and the chunky glitter on the holly is perfect!

[Audrey Pettit]

Awesome post, Wanda! I just looooovve all your tags! The sweet ones with the snowmen are so, so pretty! Love the color combo and wow on all the detail! And the traditional tag with the holly is fabulous, too!

[Regina]

You know I LOVE THESE, Wanda! And the Merry Tag is like a happy bonus! You are so fabulous and I adore your projects...and you! XOXO

[Shelly]

I LOVE your tags, Wanda, and your vintage tag is GOR-gussss!!! I might have to get that impression plate now, I've been eyeballing it but now I WANT it, lol! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday!