Quick Gift idea

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Today is a speedy gift solution using a pre-colored image from klmdigitaldesigns.com, the medium tag from Tim Holtz/Sizzix tag dies, and a few embellishments to personalize the project.

This is a tag, ornament, and money or gift card holder all in one.

I knew I wanted to add a greeting to the Gnome so I opened the PNG for this project and dropped it into a Pages document (or Word Document). I added a text box, typed the message in my choice of font, and sized and positioned the box near the gnome. I used the group option and sized the whole image to fit the tag size I wanted to use. The image was printed on a piece of white card and then cut with the tag die. 

The students I made these for recently changed schools so I traced the pennant in the new school color then cut and glued it over the blue pennant.

I used some pinstripe press-ons from Love from Lizzie to personalize the tag a bit.

Next, I layered the tag onto a piece of card matching the school color. This piece was folded up on the bottom to create a pocket for the gift. I used a circle punch to cut a section out for ease of card removal. I used very thin double-sided tape to close the sides of the pocket.

The pocket was stamped with a to/from stamp then a gold cord was threaded for a hanger and a red and white baker's twine bow was added.

Even with the personalization, it took me about 30 minutes to make both tags.

This can be tied to a package or hung in the tree.

I hope this helps a little with your holiday wrapping.

Gnome gift Tags

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Today I am sharing one way I use the pre-colored images from klmdigitaldesigns.com. The flexibility of sizing allows one to use the same image in multiple ways.

Once I receive my images, I make sure to save them to an external storage device. I find a thumb drive works best for me. Just back the images up onto something. For this project, I printed the images in sizes to fit my tag dies.

I use an Apple computer, so I drop my images into Pages and size them according to my needs. It helps to have an idea of what you are going to use the images on. That makes sizing a snap! In this case, I wanted to make a package of holiday gift tags using the smaller tag die. I estimated the approximate size of the gnome based on that die. Then, I dropped and sized one image. Last, I copied and pasted it three times. That gave me four images the exact same size. I used a Scan N Cut to cut them out, but usually, I just fussy-cut the gnomes.

 I used blue scraps from my pile of handmade backgrounds to die-cut my tags and gave them a little spritz of Distress Mica Stains. Then, I stenciled some white cardstock and die-cut a coin envelope to put the tags into. I'll add a small label and ribbon right before I give this package away. They are the perfect size to drop in your purse and hand them out to those you cross paths with. I like to do that with the dentist's office, and the teller at the bank. Just a bit of holiday cheer.

The second tag uses a  variation of the first. This is a bigger tag to go on a gift bag for a birthday.

Here is when the versatility of digital stamps comes into play. I can change the size of the image to match my project. I cut a piece of background with the perfect color combination for this tag.

    If you make your own backgrounds, you know it is darn near impossible to have a clean back. I just trace the finished tag onto card stock, cut it out and glue it to the back. This gives a nice clean area to write a message.

Materials:

Digital Stamp- klmdigitaldesigns.com

Sentiment Stamps - Happy Holidays, Stampendous

                               Just for You, Scrapbook.com

Dies- Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits Collector #665926

          Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits Framed Tags #666065

Stencil- Stampers Anonymous #THMM133

Distress Mica Stain

Gold Icing Paste

Gone in a Flash

    Energy and time have a way of vanishing when chasing after a 6 and 3 1/2 year old. I’m running out of steam!
There has been NO time to stamp, but I did make a few things for the magazine call that didn’t get picked up, or in other cases didn’t have time to fuss with trying to make a photo collage for submission. Getting old stinks! I can’t remember how to do things once I’ve done it. I need to do it over and over. I still haven’t learned how to use PSE! No time during school year, the technology requirements for that is staggering! Blah..blah..blah..... as my daughter would say!

This is a real simple number for me, but I reall like the resuts. All PTI products except for the Pacific Point  paper from SU. I used Vintage Picnic and Postmarks. I hand cut the basket.  I have yet to order the die. There is nothing special about the tag, simply cut on the cutter to fit the basket. The word "love" was hand written with a white Signo pen. A dash of glitter and a pop up here and there and , ta-da!

Now to put two little elves to bed and try to stay awake until 10!

Flower Tags

These cute little fellas have been sitting on my desk for a couple of weeks. They are from Michale’s ; one of their clear stamp sets. I found that they did not stamp very well though. They didn’t seem to take the ink very well and the image  was not as crisp as one would expect. They are cute though.

Every spring I thin out my perennial beds and bring them to school to share. Usually I stick a popsicle stick in the plants to mark them. I thought these would be more fun.

Still thinking spring!!