Christmas Tag Gift Set

I had a great time with friends last Saturday making the tags from the "Oh What Fun" tag kit found in the Holiday Catalog.  This kit comes with supplies to make 30 tags.  These tags are so adorable!

I decided to divide up the tags and give a gift of 10 tags to each of my son's preschool teachers.  I knew I needed a cute package to put them in, so I revised an old box pattern I had to come up with this.

The best thing about this box is that it is super easy!  This is how you make it:

1. Start out with a half sheet of cardstock (I used Real Red), 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"
2. With the cardstock turned the 8 1/2" wide direction, score at 3 3/4" and 4 3/4"
3. Turn the cardstock the 5 1/2" wide direction and score at 1" and 4 1/2"
4. Fold your score lines and cut in the middle flaps.
5. Add designer paper (2 1/4" x 3 3/4") to each side of the box (I used some retired paper).
6. Add ribbon by putting a strip of srong adhesive (like tear tape) down each side of your designer paper.  Attach the ribbon to the adhesive.
7. Decorate with a cute tag.  I used the Very Merry Everything Bundle to stamp and punch out my tags.  The thick red baker's twine came in the tag kit.  I added the tags to the box with Stampin' Dimensionals.

I think my son's teachers will love their gifts!

Hope you can join us for the next class!  Check out my calendar to find out what is next.

Cozy Christmas Stamp Camp

I had so much fun stamping with friends last Saturday at my Cozy Christmas Stamp Camp.  We made 5 cards and 3 tags with the adorable Cozy Christmas stamp set, the Home for Christmas designer paper, and the Home for Christmas buttons.

These are the 5 cards and tags we made.  I copied the tags and Reindeer card straight out of the Holiday Catalog.  The other cards were inspired by friends or Pinterest!

I absolutely loved making cards with this stamp set and didn't want to stop!  These are some of the other cards I made with either the stamp set, the designer paper, or both.

The first card is a simple, yet lovely, design by Angie Kennedy Juda.  She has a youtube video showing how she made 10 of these cards and a cute gift bag out of one sheet of this paper.  Great card for mass producing!

I really wanted to make a card with the cute Santa and reindeer flying through the sky. If I was to make this card again,  I would try having him fly in front of the moon away from the house, but for now, this works.

These cards showcase the fun designs on the Home For Christmas paper.  How easy to cut it up and turn it into a stack of gifts.  I have used this idea for birthday cards with birthday paper as well.

Now comes the "fussy" cutting.  This designer paper just begged to be fussy cut with all the cute images of reindeer and Santa!  I generally avoid fussy cutting, but I just couldn't help myself with this paper.  I only scratched the surface re-creating all the cards I found on Pinterest!  (No, I really don't design much of my own.  Thank you to all the talented stampers out there who DO design and post your creations).

The card above and below use the Softly Falling embossing folder.

The ice in the card above was punched out of silver glimmer paper with the extra-large oval punch.

The tag on the card above was made with the scalloped tag topper.  I really love that punch!

I will be making the card above again when my new Holly Jolly Greetings bundle comes in.  I'll replace the "Jolly" with a thinlits "jolly" and I won't have to hand write the words!

The poinsettia was fussy cut from the designer paper.  I used red glimmer paper and rhinestones to add sparkle.

I'm posting this last card even though I can't make it turn the right direction for anything!  It is the right direction on my computer, but every time I try to add it, it flips!  Oh well, I still wanted to share the idea.  I love that music paper!

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Have fun stamping!