Christmas Tags

Barbara and Janet got together tonight and made some Christmas Tags.

Barbara's tags are here. she used distress stains to colour the tags then added embellishments to finish them off. she still needs to add her ribbons to the tags!






Janet's tag is to the left. She used some Christmas paper from K and Company to layer on the tag, then stamped that with a snowman stamp and pine needles stamp from a Tim Holtz Christmas set.

She then cut another tag from some acetate packaging and embossed it in a Christmas embossing folder and layered it on top of the tag using brads to attach it.

The key and padlock were cut from the same K&Compant paper that had been glued to some backing card to make it stronger. The dies were from the Sizzix Alterations dies range. They were then attached to the tag with some fancy yarn.

Workshop Samples

Well, we have another workshop planned for this weekend and this is a sneak preview of the sort of things we will be covering at the workshop. The idea came from Gina K over at StampTV

The first technique is wax resist using wax paper, embossing folders, and distress inks.

The samples here were shown at the last meeting and everyone there had fun playing with the technique.


This is a close up of the image on the above card.

The image here was stamped first.

This card was also shown at the meeting. The image on this was a digital one and printed on the card before doing the wax resist.


We used Spellbinders Nestabilities to cut the shapes after waxing.
Distress inks were applied after the wax resist.

To find out more about this technique, take a look here.




The other technique we are looking at is Clean and Simple Distressing. Sounds like fun? How can you be clean and simple as well as distressed? Actually, we are using distress inks!!!

This is the sort of thing we will be doing at the workshop.

Using a stamped image, a die cut mask and distress inks, we will make some more like this. Quick, simple and effective!

Hopefully, I will remember to take the camera and take some pics of the girls having fun...