Hello! I’m Tami Hewlett from California, USA, and today I’m sharing my December Artisan Design Team projects featuring the Celebrate With Tags Bundle. This is a fantastic bundle that’s great for lots of occasions including holidays, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and anniversaries. It also works great for cards, tags and even scrapbooks!
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The Celebrate With Tags Bundle is on page 67 of the July-December Mini Catalog and includes the Celebrate with Tags Stamp Set and Celebrations Tag Dies. (The stamps are carrying over and will continue to be available after 1/4/23!) I love the unique tags that fold!!! They are perfect for shaker elements, hidden messages, gift tags, and more. Or, you can easily trim them to make a typical flat tag. So many cool possibilities.
Merry Christmas Card
I decided to create two cards for this post, one for Christmas and one for Valentine’s Day. They have similar layouts, but different colors and embellishments.
I really wanted to take advantage of the unique folding tags in this bundle, so I decided to use them to create shaker elements. I initially tried sealing them with Tear N Tape, but some of the sequins were still escaping. So in the end, I used my trusty sewing machine to stitch around the tags.
Another really cool aspect of these dies is that they include the a small rectangle and circle (used on the second card) to cut the windows of my shakers. For both tags, I used the Knit Together background stamp to stamp on Basic White Cardstock prior to cutting out the tags. Then, I backed the windows with a Window Sheet, filled the shaker with For Everything Fancy Sequins, and stitched it closed.
For the snowflake die-cuts, I pre-painted Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper with Starry Sky, Balmy Blue and Blushing Bride ink. I love doing this, because then I can pick the perfect areas to cut the dies.
In the background, I added some Snowflake Specialty Vellum. Then, since the sequins include some gold elements, I thought it would look pretty to add gold accents for the sentiment, banners and ribbon.
Made With Love Card
It’s not too early to start thinking of Valentine’s Day, so I used the other tag in the bundle to create a second card with pink tones.
For this card, I pre-painted Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper with Polished Pink and Blushing Bride ink to die-cut the various hearts.
Next, I stamped the sentiment multiple times with Polished Pink ink and Versamark so I could emboss it in gold. I cut out the “Made” and “Love” so I could pop them up with Dimensionals above the stamped banners.
The Celebrations Tag Dies include the small dot background die that I used to cut the Vellum layer. I love adding cool texture like this to cards.
I hope my cards have inspired you to purchase this awesome bundle. To me, it’s a keeper that I’ll be hanging onto for a long time.
Have a wonderful and creative day!
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