It’s Day 8 of our “12 Days of Holiday Giving” and the holiday inspiration continues! Joining us today is our fabulous Art Director Cathy Zielske (who always makes us look so good!) to share some graphic, beautiful tags with you. We’re also excited to have our friends from Photo Play Paper and Your Next Stamp here and maybe, just maybe, there will be a little bonus at the end too ;) Let’s get the Day 8 party started!
“One of the things I love to do during the holidays is creating my own gift tags for my packages. I love to get a little crafty but mostly I like to develop one look or feel and apply that all of my tags. This year? I’m going with the gray card stock, white embossing powder, and red look. The cool thing about going with a theme is that you get all of your supplies out, mix and match your stamp sets, but keep the feel of everything similar.
One of the things that makes it much easier is to have some sort of a tag die set and my favorite is my Tag Infinity dies from Hero Arts. I can quickly punch a bunch of tags and then get to stamping and embossing.
I’m using a card stock from Simon Says Stamp called Smoke and it’s just the right shade of gray that allows the white embossing to really pop. On the first tag I used the Lots of Snowflakes set from Simon Says Stamp, and stamped them off the edge of my tag to create a bleed effect. The next tag features the Merry Christmas Script stamp from Hero Arts, and the one next to that is my favorite of this season, the Poster Christmas Carols stamp, also from Hero Arts. The fourth tag features a simple, all-purpose Diagonal Stripe stamp from Stampin’ Up.
One of the tricks to getting a good stamped impression on anything is to make sure you remove the static from your card stock first. I use a simple Embossing Magic Bag but you can also use a power tool as well. This ensures that your powder sticks only to the sticky embossing ink and not the paper.
I also recently discovered the Sharpie Paint Pen and it works beautifully on this card stock.
To finish off my tags I added reinforcement circles, punched out of Neenah Desert Storm card stock using my tag die set, and added some red and white twine from Doodlebug Design.
Here’s to the fun of breaking out your craft supplies and creating beautiful, coordinated tags to festoon your holiday gifts! To see a complete breakdown of the supplies I used to visit my blog.
Happy Holidays to our SCT readers!” ~ Cathy Zielske
Thank you Cathy! The simplicity is stunning as always!
GIVEAWAY – Day 8!
Happy Holidays to all our fabulous friends at SCT! We are excited to give away a $50 gift certificate today to one lucky reader. Thank you for an amazing year. Everyone at Your Next Stamp is excited to bring you fabulous new products and lots of fun in 2018!
…but wait, there’s more!
Thank you to our friends at Your Next Stamp and Photo Play Paper for these amazing prizes! We also have one more…from us!
Today’s winner will not only win a spot for themselves in our brand new online class SCT365 in 2018 but you’ll also win one for a friend! Here is more about our new, self paced, online class that will keep you scrapping all year long:
“SCT’s 365 Online Class was so popular in 2017 that we’re bringing it back for 2018, too! Another year is coming to an end and you’ve probably amassed quite a collection of memories and photos. SCT 365 is the perfect class to help you get those moments off your computer (or out of a shoebox) and onto pages in your family album, one month at a time! This double-page, sketch-based class features exclusive PageMaps sketches, trendy techniques (all spelled out in photos), a monthly bonus card, cutting files, complete instructions and so much more.
We’ve lined up an all-star cast of your favourite teachers, including Lisa Dickinson, Kelly Goree, Becki Adams, Paige Evans, Meghann Andrew, Jana Eubank, Jen Gallacher, Nicole Nowosad, Anya Lunchenko, Bea Valint, Stacy Cohen and Sheri Reguly!
On the 1st of each month, the new content will be available to you in the online classroom on the SCT website. Best of all, the content is available to you all year long so YOU can set the pace for this class. This class starts on January 2, 2018.” For more information on this class, and to register, click HERE.
To enter each day’s giveaways:
For an opportunity to win these amazing giveaways, leave a comment below by midnight on December 22nd EST. All winners will be announced on December 23rd at noon EST. Good luck friends!!!
We would also ask that you take a moment to visit today’s sponsors on their Facebook pages to thank them for their generous prizes. Our SCT readers are always so wonderful at saying “thank you” and it’s because of that appreciation our partners love to share with you here throughout the year! Let’s show them how much we are loving these 12 Days of giveaways! If you don’t already “like” them, you may just want to!
Your Next Stamp on Facebook
Photo Play Paper on Facebook
Scrapbook & Cards Today on Facebook
Please continue to spread the holiday spirit by inviting your friends to share in our celebration! The more the merrier! And if you’re just joining us for the first time, be sure to start with our Day 1 post HERE.
Have a wonderful weekend friends, we are so glad you joined us today!
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The tags are so beautiful! Thanks for sharing the idea and all the goodies.
Love, love, love those Photoplay papers!! Inspiring me to keep crafting!
Thank you for sharing the wonderful gift tag ideas, and hosting the giveaways – very generous and so fun!
Cool stamps! Love the white on grey!
Photo Play is one of my favorite manufacturers. Would love to win a pack from them!
Glad to find new ideas for tags! Thanks
These gift tags are beautiful, a gift themselves. Wow a gift card to chose what we want, fabulous and I am in love with all the papers from Memory Lane and Vintage Girl. stunning. Wow stickers, dies and stamps this is an awesome and very generous prize. Thank you for this chance to win.
Gorgeous tags! I never thought I’d want a tag die…now I need one!
Thanks SCT, Your Next Stamp and Photo Play Paper for these amazing prizes! The tags are just beautiful! Love the use of the Sharpie paint pen on cardstock.
The tags have given me some ideas – again such great prizes.
So much fun with these daily prizes. Thanks for a chance to win.
I think I have the exact same tag die tag die set! Great CAS tag design!
Such awesome inspiration and products! Can’t wait to get started on my project!
Love your creative motivation! Thanks for sharing your creativity and for the chance to win a prize!!! Happy holidays to all my creative friends !
The tag die set is really neat. Thank you for the inspiration and the chance to win these awesome prizes.
Thes tags are gorgeous. Great prizes today (everyday!)
Love the grey, white, red combo for the tags! Make enough of them and you have a great set for gifts for each of your scrap girls! The chance to win prizes for the neat how to is wonderful! I love Christmas!
I have a tag die but have never used it! Time to get it out & use it! These tags are beautiful, thank you for the inspiration (& motivation!)
Lovely tags. This year I was able to deliver all my presents in person by taking them in my suitcase to a family baby shower in early December. But that meant using gift bags I could assemble at the destination (so TSA could inspect my luggage). So I put all my wrapping effort into making truly special tags.
These are lovely designs to add to the repertoire for next year.
These tags are beautiful, so clean and simple, just my kind!!!
Those tags are beautiful! Simple, but elegant.
Beautiful, classy tag are one of my favourite things to create at this time of year. These are so nice! Thank you for another great day of giveaways!
Lovely! Merry Christmas ??
These tags are very stylish – thanks for the chance of winning:)
i love making my own tags too. i think is makes the gifts so much more personalized. thanks for the chance to win.
Gorgeous tags and beautiful papers!
I’m so happy to see a project from Cathy Z. I love all her new videos and the fun she has with her cards. After all, isn’t that what it’s supposed to be, FUN! Thanks to all your great sponsors too. Without them, our crafting desks would be bare.
I LOVE the tags! So simple but so elegant. I just might have to “borrow” this idea for next year. Thanks you for the chance to win some beautiful things.
I love the grey and white!
The tags are stunning and so non traditional. They look so classy!
Thanks also for the chance to win some great stuff!
You guys are always an inspiration!
Such beautiful tags! I love the combination of grey ave white. Fabulous prizes too!
Love the clean and simple designs on the tags! There are some interesting winsperations!
I love tags and I love snowflakes and I love gray so this post seems like it was made just for me!! Thanks so much for sharing and thank you for the opportunity to win-have a wonderful day!!!?
I love the grey for your tags. So slick.
Wow – these are stunning! Love the grey. I will have to try this! Thank you for another wonderful day of goodies! I left some love on facebook. ThaNk you for the opportunity!!
I’m so inspired. These tags are wonderful & give a unique look. I love to make my own tags too. Thanks Cathy Z. And just when you think it can’t get any better, there are even more fantastic giveaways today! Thanks SCT, Photoplay and Your Next Stamp.
I just love the tags Cathy made. Simple yet elegant. I’m heading off to see if I can make some of my own….
Love the tag ideas. Yet more wonderful prizes :).
Oooh those tags are so beautiful and elegant. I just love gray and white. Perfect for the holidays, too. More great products from great companies! Love them all!
I love the beautiful tags! What a wonderful prize pack,!
I love these tags! That grey and white with a pop of red is stunning! Thanks for the inspiration Cathy! And thank you all for another wonderful day of sponsors and prizes!
Thanks for the opportunity to win such fab prizes ????
Simple and elegant tags! Love the paper collections!
I love photoplay paper, bought me the mad for plaid collection. *swoon*
The tags are stunning and the prizes are awesome!,,
Cathy has always been inspiring! Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful prize package.
I love your tags! They are so beautiful :) I will definitely have to try this out!
I am just getting into die cutting thanks to one of my awesome crafty friends. Love the ideas!! Happy Weekend!
Beautiful tags!
Love these tags! Another great chance to win something amazing!
Lovely tags, thanks for the idea.
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Oh yes those tags are beautiful and elegant. Thanks again for another day of giveaways,