Hello SCT friends!
It’s Nathalie with you today, and I am so excited to be sharing a set of birthday tags to “wrap up” Scrapbook & Cards Today’s 15th birthday celebration!
Supplies | Patterned paper, cardstock, cardstock stickers, ephemera: Salutations No. 1 from Echo Park Paper Co. ; Cardstock, acetate: American Crafts; Dies: Echo Park Paper Co.; Gems: Pinkfresh Studio; Adhesive: Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L; Trim: Michaels
I am sure that you all like pretty birthday packages, and gift wrapping is one of my favorite things to do! I always think that even the smallest of gifts is meaningful when it comes in a pretty package. So, today, I want to give you three ideas (from simple to elaborate) for how to create beautiful birthday tags featuring the new Salutations No. 1 collection from Echo Park Paper.
For my first and simplest tag, I used the Eyelet Circle Nesting Die Set and the Stitched Circle Nesting Die to create graduating die cuts from the collection’s 6×6 paper pad. These were attached together with a piece of foam adhesive to help add dimension. I completed the tag with a small, round sticker sentiment, and a few crystals—a simple and quick way to add the finishing touch to your package.
The second tag is a bit more elaborate. This time, I used the larger Eyelet Circle Nesting Dies to cut white cardstock and one of the patterned papers from the Salutations No. 1 collection. This time, I looped the trim through a loop on both of the tags. The sentiment comes from the ephemera pack, and all the florals were fussy cut from one of the 4×6 cards from the collection. Once again, I added a few crystals to the tag, and tied a bow at the top loops of the tag.
For my last tag, I wanted to create an interactive element: a shaker tag! I used the two largest Eyelet Circle Nesting Dies to cut the detailed borders. Then, I used the Stitched Circles to cut one patterned paper circle for the back of the shaker element, and to cut out the circle frame from the smaller Eyelet circle. I added acetate behind the smaller scalloped circle frame, then added foam adhesive all around the edge of the frame. I filled the frame with crystals, then attached it to the larger circle, then to the larger Eyelet circle. I used cardstock stickers to embellish and add a sentiment to the tag.
I hope this post inspires you to create tags for your next present or paper crafting project, and add a special handmade touch! Remember to share your finished projects with us by tagging us on Instagram or Facebook.
Before I leave you, I want to take the chance to wish Scrapbook & Cards Today a happy 15th Birthday, “a Quinceañera” – sweet fifteen in Spanish! We are so blessed to have this magazine filled with ideas and inspiration, and a large community along with it that is welcoming and loving. Thank you, Catherine, for having the courage to follow your ideas, and build this for all of us!
Happy Birthday, SCT!
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Thank you, Nathalie, for such a lovely birthday message, and for creating such beautiful tags! Wow! We know those will be “pinned” a lot today!
We are so excited to announce our last four giveaways during this celebration! First, if you love creating with Echo Park Paper products as much as we (and Nathalie!) do, you’ll love these two collections up for grabs:
One winner will win the Magical Birthday Boy collection, and another the Magical Birthday Girl collection prize to create fun and whimsical projects to record special birthday memories!
But, you’re going to need something to adhere that project together, right? How about a sticky giveaway from our friends at Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L?
From Scrapbook Adhesives:
“We are thrilled to be celebrating Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine on its 15th birthday! YaY! Congratulations to Catherine and the rest of the team for working so hard to bring together inspiration and community in one amazing publication. Looking forward to another 15 years and beyond!”
This giveaway includes some of our favourites, as well as some brand new Scrapbook Adhesives products: E-Z Runner Permanent Strips Refillable dispenser, E-Z Squares Refill, 3D Foam Cupcakes, 3D Foam Party, NEW E-Z Runner Hearts Refillable Dispenser 650 pcs, E-Z Runner Petite Permanent Dots 26ft, Adhesive Lines 200pcs, Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets Variety 6×12 5pcs, NEW 3D Foam Squares Micro White 2508 pcs 1/8in., NEW Crafty Power Tape Polybag 81ft., Extreme Double-Sided Tape 1/8″ (red liner), Premium Double-Sided Tape 1/2″ (white liner tear tape)
Last, but certainly not least, Your Next Stamp is offering three cute stamp sets along with three sets of our favourite embellishment: Gum Drops—to go along with them!
This giveaway includes:
- Cute Blooms stamp set
- Happy Cat stamp set
- Totally Retro stamp set
- Pink Pizazz Gumdrops
- Rainbow Sparkle Gumdrops
- Crystal Clear and Sparkle Gumdrops
To enter to win one of these wonderful prizes, leave a comment on this post telling us the details of your IDEAL birthday at midnight on April 1st! Four commenters will be chosen at random and announced here on the blog on April 2nd.
Thank you so much for joining in on our big 15th birthday celebration this week! We love reading your birthday comments on each post, and love seeing you thank our partners on social media! In case you’ve missed any of the inspiration and giveaways, be sure to find all of the Birthday Week post links below, and click each one to leave a comment and enter to win one of these 16 prizes up for grabs from our amazing partners!
- Day 01 | A birthday layout with Lisa Dickinson and giveaways from American Crafts, Concord & 9th and Close to My Heart
- Day 02 | Birthday pocket pages with Meghann Andrew and giveaways from Scrapbook.com, Therm O Web and Photoplay Paper
- Day 03 | A birthday ensemble with Latisha Yoast and giveaways from Lawn Fawn, Doodlebug, Honey Bee Stamps and Creative Memories
- Day 04 | Birthday card bouquets with Mindy Eggen and giveaways from Pinkfresh Studio, Hero Arts and Simple Stories
- Day 05 | Birthday tags with Nathalie DeSousa and giveaways from Echo Park Paper, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Your Next Stamp >> YOU ARE HERE
And my ideal birthday would be to have a huge party oh my friends lots of food and a huge cake with strawberries music dancing and just fun it would go all day all night and just be fun.
Ideally, my birthday would have limitless hours of scrapbooking time with friends, lots of visits from family and friends and some chocolate!!
Great prize, ideally I would love to spend my Birthday with my family. However the kids and grandkids all live in different provinces so I can’t wait to be able to see them again.
My ideal birthday at midnight would be sitting by the water watching the moonlight
Gorgeous tags! Since my birthday is in February, my ideal birthday would involve the tropics, with lots of sun and sand. It would also have my nearest and dearest friends and family with me for several days of celebrating!
L9ve the tags. My ideal birthday would be able to relax all day starting with a long soak in the bathtub with lavender. After my smoothing bath, I would like to curl up & read some of my favorite books.
A quiet getaway birthday with my husband to one of the Caribbean islands staying in one of those “huts” over the water would be ideal.
Thanks Nathalie for the beautiful tag inspiration. They are beautiful. Thanks SCT and your sponsors for the wonderful prizes! Happy 15!
My ideal birthday would be a vacation at the beach for a week, and each day different people would come stay with us to help celebrate!
My ideal birthday would include lots of friends coming over for a scrapbooking day with lots of laughter, good times and wine.
Ideal birthday….hmmmm….family present, carrot cake (gluten free) present, good food & music present, maybe in a suite, or suites, at a fun hotel with a tropical pool area where we can ALL be served & treated like it’s our special day! Thanks for the chance to win! Happy 15th SCT!
I just had my birthday and it was pretty much perfect. All my kids called me and one even sent flowers! The weather was a sunny 65 which is very unusual for my western NY climate. I spent the day outside gardening (also unusual for March) I was just a pleasant day finished up with my husband cooking dinner. Couldn’t have been much better…and I received some new craft supplies in the mail!
My ideal birthday is not being at work. LOL. I enjoy staying at home for some me time on my Birthday, then celebrate it later that day with my hubby and kiddos. Again Happy 15th Birthday SCT!! And Thank you for all of the amazing inspiration!
Wonderful giveaways….
My ideal birthday would be spent with my kids and granddaughter, and my hubby of course. Just spending quality time, making memories that I could then create a scrapbook….what could be better?
My ideal birthday would be coffee / lunch with friends, then a quiet evening at home with my Hubby. Oh, and carrot cake! I LOVE the YNS prize package! So many card ideas from those stamps! :)
Ideal birthday, all I can think about during these times is being together with my family. Even if it is only a short celebration, no gifts and a small cake, I will like to see all my family at my house.
Thanks SCT and friends for all the giveaways. And cheers for many years more to come of a great magazine.
Such lovely tags! Great prize opportunities today too – thank you!
My ideal birthday would be to sleep all night and get up late., have hot coffee abs a sweet treat, a day if crafting with a beautiful view and birds singing, dinner with family and end the day with a bath abs a glass of wine.
My ideal birthday would start with a massage, then some crafting and finish off with a meal with my family. Of course a fabulous birthday cake to share.
My ideal birthday would be a Hawaiian themed pool party and all the Hawaiian foods served at a luau party. We will wear leis and wear our beach outfit and wear our Hawaiian dresses for the luau.
Happy happy 15th Birthday SCT! Mahalo????????????
My ideal birthday would start with waking up whenever instead of at 5:15 like I do every day because of our dogs. I would read, scrapbook, have a massage and go to lunch. Then I would take a long nap and have a nice dinner and cake with my husband. I would also get a huge gift card to scrapbook.com!
Beautiful as always Nathalie! Happy birthday SCT um the your next stamp, fabulous!
My ideal birthday would be a long weekend scrapbooking with friends. A wonderful home-cooked meal with family and, of course, some birthday cake!
My ideal birthday would be spent with my family and friends. There would be chocolate cake and balloons. The day would also include some scrapbooking time for relaxation. Happy 15th Birthday SCT!
Awesome birthday tags from Natalie!! My ideal birthday would be to get a surprise flight/trip to visit my daughter in Ottawa. In addition to finally seeing my daughter in person, I would get the opportunity to see my sister and brother…a 3 for one!! It would be so amazing…..but Covid may have other ideas! Thanks for the chance to win any of these wonderful prizes and good luck to everyone!! Happy Easter to all!!
My ideal birthday would be a group camping event, with lots of just hanging out the all the people, and ending with a campfire. Thanks SCT for all you do, Love YNT and the gumdrops! Need a rainbow of gumdrops.
My ideal birthday is spending the day with family, playing card and board games, laughing so hard our tummies hurt! And lots of Chocolate Mint ice cream!
Beautiful tags/cards! Thanks for a chance to win :) My ideal birthday would be celebrating with family and friends on a warm, tropical island.
My ideal birthday would include all my favorite foods (no calories!) unlimited scrapbooking time where everything comes together effortlessly, all my family and friends here to help me celebrate and a good night’s sleep when it all over!
Thanks for the chance to win!!!
My ideal birthday would be quiet. Read a book, scrapbook and then watch a movie on the couch with the other half.
My ideal birthday would be no work for the day, sleep in, breakfast in bed, afternoon at the spa and then dinner with my husband, my mom and my kids and lots of calls from my friends to wish me. ( not FB posts) Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these amazing prizes today – have really lost my mojo and this would definitively help me to get back into it.
OMG! Happy Birthday scrapbook and Cards; these every day creations are full of inspiration and beauty! My ideal birthday will always be the chance to be with family: My husband and daughter, and my parents and siblings.
My ideal birthday would be to spend it with my family. For now I will choose to scrapbook all day. Thank you for the chance to win one of these wonderful prizes.
My birthday wish is a world back to normal , covid all gone. And chocolate cake with my family .
Simply gorgeous!!! My ideal birthday is just being with my husband and kids hanging out and being together! I can’t ever get enough of them!
I love the tags! My ideal birthday: My daughters and their children taking me out to supper, complete with a strawberry-cream cheese birthday cake. This would be the perfect kick-off to a weekend-long crop with all of my best scrapbooking buddies. Maybe even a crop at our favorite get-away in Spartanburg, SC, or at the beach. Either way, it involves family, friends, cake, and scrapbooking!
My special birthday should be a day surrounded by all the people I love, my family and my friends.
It never occurred to me to make shape / shaker tags! Thank you Natalie for showing such lovely samples.
My ideal birthday celebration would be to resume (when it’s safe to do so) Caribbean cruising for the last week of February with my sister and friends who also have birthdays in that week. We have BIG fun as well as create memories to scrapbook and remember for a life time. ????
For me…My Birthday would go backwards numerically(LOL) Id like it to stop at 15yrs.Go !!!.
Happy birthday SCT! And hello tags! WOW! Absolutely A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Ideal birthday? Tons of scrapooking time with birthday wishes rolling in from far and wide and time with family and friends.
My ideal birthday would include so many wonderful things. My kids would be visiting grandparents while I scrapbooked and crafted most of the day with my two best friends! Someone would also come in the morning to clean my house while my husband picked up the groceries and brought us snacks/meals to keep our energy up! I would then want to finish the day with some family time where my kids didn’t fight at all. What a great day that would be!! Happy 15th SCT!
My kids are grown up and moved away! My ideal birthday is to spend the day with them and their families! This year, my birthday falls on thanksgiving. I pray we can all get together for a huge family reunion and meal. I am already thankful for that event!
Happy Birthday!!! This week’s posts have been very inspiring and getting me already in the planning mode. My ideal birthday if travel was allowed, would definitely be a trip to the Caribbean. Some warm weather with beaches and fresh seafood!!!
My ideal birthday is a trip to somewhere that I haven’t been before and to photograph nature. Then, I’d come home and eat chocolate cake.
Dinner I didn’t cook or have to clean up with friends and family.
The gift tags are so dainty and sweet. Love this idea. My favorite birthday would be a cruise with family. We’ve done two in the past and they are definitely never forget awesome memories.
Such cute projects!! Love them all and the product used!! I think it would be perfect to spend my birthday
on a beach in Hawaii with my husband and kids!!
My ideal birthday would include a cake from Costco!. Seriously, I love their cake. LOL!
Oh what sweet and lovely tags – beautiful! My ideal birthday is time with family at the lake.
Happy 15th birthday, thanks for all you do to keep this industry going! The tags are so dainty, love the soft colours, thanks for the inspiration. Spending time with my family will be ideal for my birthday after all the separation caused by the pandemic!
The ideal birthday would be to have all my kids happy to be home and to be with each other!
My ideal birthday would be spent with my husband trail riding our horses and then going home for a wonderful fall dinner and a movie. Quality time with hubby, horses, and the great outdoors!
My ideal birthday would be one that involves nature, friends and family, presents of crafty supplies, and a chocolate frosted chocolate cake!
Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Nathalie! beautiful designs as always! My ideal BD would have to be cruising with the VBOO crew!
My ideal birthday would be being pampered all day, start off with crafting with my family and friends. Then some fabulous food and time spent with my entire family. Oh I yearn to spend time with family!!! Great inspiration and fabulous giveaways!!!