I am still on a Christmas card roll again this week. I hope you are working on yours. Yesterday a radio person said it was 4 weeks until Christmas! Oh My that is soon.
The card I have for you includes a Tag. I got the idea from finding some gift tags I had made last year. Tags are actually pretty versatile but mine is attached to a card front today.
DIES
There are several products of equal “star” rating today. One of them is the tag. This perfect sized tag is a Die from the Merriest Trees Die set. This was a bundle that carried over to the Annual Catalog. Now the stamp set and matching Die set are not available as a bundled price. But are definitely worth having in your stash. The size of this tag makes it perfect for a card front as I have used it, and also as a gift tag. It is not going to get lost on the gift!
STAMPS
There are actually two different stamp sets used for this cute tag. The first is for the background trees. These are from the Snowy Wonder stamp set. The darkest one is full strength of Garden Green, the center one is stamped again, and the lightest is stamped a third time. All of them are from the one inking of the stamp. How cool is that!
The adorable little sentiment is from one of my favorite sets in the Mini Catalog. It is the Humble Home stamp set. This fun set, with the matching punch, is one that works year round. Personally I love the little hand written look of the sentiment. To help it match the other tag properties, I simply fussy cut square edges around it. It was really easy.
PAPERS
The papers used today are several. I began with the card base and tag as Thick Basic White cardstock. Then the holly layer of DSP is from the Snowy Scene Designer Series Paper. The small strip of polka dot paper to ground the snow globe is from the Take A Bow Designer Series Paper. This was from scraps left from my cutting for a card swap. I hate throwing away DSP strips!
The star of the tag is the snow globe. This piece is actually cut from the Snowy Scenes Designer Series Paper also. There are two different size snow globes on two different sheets included in the pack. This is one of the smaller ones. I thought the little penguin’s red ear muffs were the bright spot. And that is what prompted the background holly piece. And the little tree next to the penguin is what prompted the trees behind him. Since I usually say my cards begin with the DSP, this one was really lead by this little cut out snow globe.
EXTRAS
There must be bling on a card. However this one is a really busy card. So I had a tough time coming up with the bling. I finally decided on the Real Red & White Peppermint dot. It matched the colors perfectly and seem to go along with the cute penqin.
The idea of this card was partly from the Mini Catalog sample for this stamp set and papers. Then I noticed they showed coloring the Pool Party Pom Pom ribbon with a Stampin’ Write Marker. So I gave it a try to get the red with white pompoms. I used the Real Red marker and it came out quite a bit darker. It looks more like Cherry Cobbler. But I like it. Since the ribbon is a bit wider than I would usually use on a tag, I opted to simple tie a bow using White Bakers’ Twine. This comes in a multi pack of basic colors.
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Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and will come back. I do read and reply to all of the comments individually. They mean a lot to me. Please reach out if you have a question.
Smile and Keep On Stamping,
Jackie
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