Friday 21 October 2016

Cute Critter Christmas Tags.

Hi everybody,

Jill here, and this week I've got some cute critter Christmas tags for you...


Using Mama Elephant's adorable 'Page Huggers' set.


I didn't buy this set when it was first released as I was trying to be 'good', but then I remembered that good doesn't suit me and life's too short to not have adorable stamps, so snapped them up as soon as they were back in stock!  This set is designed to make little book marks, but obviously they are so cute and versatile, you can do anything you want with them.  As soon as I set eyes on them I knew I wanted to make tags from them, they have such a large simple body area I just thought they'd be perfect.


I started by stamping out my little Santa hats (how do you make something 'Christmassy?  Simple, whack a Santa hat on it!), four times onto strips of kraft card, masked off, and stamped by lovely huggers over the top.  I then coloured them, very simply, in coloured pencils.  I love pencils on kraft, and always think it works perfect with a festive theme.  I then scored a line, right above the highest point, folded my card strip, and cut around ensuring to leave enough connected area to make the tags strong enough.  I guess this would be much easier to do if you opted for partial die-cutting the matching dies, but I don't have them so went the old-fashioned route.  I then punched a hole through the top of each tag, and threaded with some red twine.  At this point they were done, and looking very cute, but I decided for one last final touch, to add a little candy cane to each of them; so stamped out, coloured and fussy cut these little canes from Mama Elephant's Reindeer Games, snipped a little cut around my critters paws, and added the cane.


I really love how these turned out, and really enjoyed making a project with a bit of a difference.

I really hope you like them, as always everything I have used is linked below.

See you next week.

Jillx

Page Huggers     Reindeer Games Image 1













5 comments:

  1. Adorable, and I love the effect of the coloured pencils on Kraft which gives such a natural festive feel. The santa hats and candy canes are a fab touch! You did make me laugh about "being good"... I suspect we'll both be living off lentils and water!

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  2. Super cute tags - and I can't believe I only just found your blog Tara! Tried to add myself to the customer blog roll but it doesn't seem to be working. Oh, so many delicious goodies being used beautifully by your 'gals' here. I can see a lot of temptation ahead!

    Hugs

    Di xx

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  3. Really some stunning tags...I love them sooo much.

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  4. I love these. Though I don't have this set, I have others that this idea will work on! Thanks for the inspiration!

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  5. the tags are incredibly adorable! Such a great idea - thanks for sharing it!

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