Sunday, December 14, 2008

Quick & Easy Holiday Gift Tags

I like my gift tags to be nice, but simple. I spend so much time on making beautiful Christmas cards, that by the end of it, I want my tags to be easy.



First I found some double sided Designer Paper that I really love (sorry, can't remeber which company). I then picked one of my tag stamp sets. (I own two - Hero Arts LL885 Winter Whimsy (so cute!) and SU Holiday Woodcuts). In this case I chose to use the Woodcuts, simply because I think I may have used the other last year - lol.


I used the colours Night of Navy & Ruby Red. They were colored in with blender pens picking ink off the lid of the stamp. (With your SU stamp pads closed, press the lid against the ink pad. When you open it up ink residue will be left on the underside of the lid. Use your blender pen to pick up the residue and color! This is a great resource if you don't own a coordinating pen to colour with). Then I raised up the image with dimensionals, punched a heart in the corner and attached a ribbon. I wrote the names in with a Green Galore pen to add some extra colour.


And voila! Easy tags that are still nice and add a handcrafted touch to your gift. I made sixteen tags in an hour. Roughly 3 minutes per tag. Not too bad!

3 comments:

Till Next Time - E said...

great tags Carmen....they look amazing!!

Meghan said...

Love them:)

Chantelle said...

very nice, I was just thinking the other day that I want to start making Christmas tags. So seeing your blog is inspiring to me.