a fun little christmas project...

in keeping with my bird and bird cages love here is a little fun holiday tag project i want to share!

supplies needed:

• 2 shipping tags
• bird on a wire edge punch
• tree vine double edge punch
• green cardstock
• large birdcage stamp - free to be stamp set
• bird stamp - embrace you stamp set
• black soot distress ink
• small white tag
• fired brick distress ink
• crushed olive distress ink
• black stazon
• black embossing ink
• clear UTEE
• quick dry 450
• liquid scrap dots
• create joy rubber stamp - red lead paperworks
• red seed beads
• broken china distress ink
• ink blending tool + foams
• tiny attacher
• masking tape
• quote strip "we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas"

step by step:

1. ink background tag with broken china distress ink and blending tool
2. punch tree vine from green cardstock and adhere to edge of blue tag so that it extends over the tag edge
3. punch edge of second tag using birds on the wire punch
4. use masking tape to mask off the edge of the tag so that you just ink the birds (note: if your masking tape is really tacky, press it onto your pants or clothing a couple times to lesson the grip)
5. use blending tool and ink the birds using black soot distress ink, then remove the masking tape.
6. ink the rest of the tag with crushed olive or green distress ink
7. stamp the birdcage using stazon
8. stamp the bird inside the cage using black embossing ink. pour clear UTEE over bird and heat emboss.
9. ink small white tag and text strip with fired brick distress ink
10. stamp "create joy" in stazon and attach to tag using tiny attacher
11. adhere quote strip along bird punched edge and trim to size
12. adhere small seed beads to paper vine to create the look of holly berries
13. use liquid scrap dots to create desired dimension (i like a lot of dimension), then adhere the bird tag to the background tag.
14. allow to dry and voila your done!

the tag looks really cute when hung on the tree, a tag for a special gift or glue a magnet to the back and make it a gift!

 

Comments

[Leslie]

Love the idea of using the punch on the side of the tag!!! Great tag inspiration. Happy Hoidays

[Darlene Carroll]

Utterly adorable Donna... thank you for sharing this with us all.

take care - have a gorgeous day filled with creativity & inspiration

hugs
Darlene

[Joanne Freeman]

Hi Donna,

Just wondering if you will make available for purchase your fun with fabric workshop. I have only just 'discovered' you and your work and I LOVE IT. Anyway I was too late to register for the Fun with Fabric workshop. I watched your intro video explaining it all and I know I would LOVE it. So please tell me you will be releasing it for sale.
Thanks (P.S I am from Australia so it is not possible for me to get to one of your in store workshops. Which is why your videos are so fantastic for me.

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DONNA!! =)
Thanks so much for yet another fun idea to create!! I had so much fun rewatching and rewatching and rewatching the inspiration videos from last week and this week that I "MADE"
myself shop your store yesterday, and I found WAY TO MANY THINGS that spoke to me and said "BUY ME", "YOU NEED ME"!! =D
So can't wait for the FUN PRODUCTS to get here!! Until then though I have your AWESOME inspiration!! THANKS and have a FABULOUS DAY!! =)
P.S are you going the get more of the PAN PASTELS in the large kits back in?? I think I'd like to have a set!! =)
THANKS AGAIN!! =)
Larissa Heskett