December 15, 2020

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 Superstar


Ready for the winner of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags Superstar?
There were 20 people who participated every day of the event--thank you so much!

Congratulations Carmela Hubler!

Carmela created some amazing tags inspired by our guests for all 26 Days!

The prize for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags Superstar as announced HERE is fabulous bag created by our own design team member Kim Heggins, a very talented sewer and who has an Etsy shop at Running Stitch Design, selling her fabulous handmade designs. Definitely worth checking out for those last minute Christmas gifts! 

Here is the prize below that she made for this year's winner. Carmela please EMAIL to me with your name, mailing address and telephone number and we can get your prize out to you right away.



This last post for year 10! Thank you once again to everyone who participated this year!

Merry Christmas and wishing everyone a Happy New Year, good health and safety for 2021! 


December 9, 2020

Quick and Elegant Christmas Card


I am over on the Studio Katia blog today with a really quick and easily reproducible Christmas card. We are getting to crunch time now and it seems no matter how early I start making Christmas cards in the year, I never seem to have enough.


I used the Poinsettia Border stamp set to create my card today using some coloured cardstock, embossing and ink blending. Simple design but also very elegant.

I started with a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of red cardstock. I used my anti static tool all over the red cardstock so that I could prevent stray embossing powder sticking where it shouldn’t. Next I stamped and white embossed the poinsettia border in the upper left corner of my card. The sentiment from the same set was built with the “Merry” script stamps and Christmas in the sans serif font from the same in the bottom right.

My very simple card design was pretty, but it seemed to be missing something. I added some dimension by ink blending Black Soot Distress Oxide ink in from the corners on the red embossed panel using Studio Katia Blending Brushes. I used a very light hand to build to shading up slowly. Remember to can always add more but you can’t take it away.

To add a bit of sparkle to the front of the card I sprayed it with Sparkle Shimmer Spritz. It didn’t want to smile for the camera, but trust me it added a bit of elegance. To add a bit more to the card front without going overboard I added some Studio Katia Wine Berry Pearls over top of the berries on the poinsettia using Studio Katia glue. I used the two smallest pearl sizes and grouped them in three. 

Thanks so much for stopping in today!


December 7, 2020

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Winners

 Thank you once again for making this year's 25 Days of Christmas Tags the best one yet!

A big shout out to my amazing design team, they have been busy behind the scenes creating beautiful tags for every day of the event to inspire you and they have been busy visiting your blogs to see all the fabulous tags you have linked up. Visit their blogs and you will definitely be inspired!

Kim Heggins
Joyce Mehrberg
Lindsey M-p
Carol Mayne
Lindsey Larsen
Ardyth

So many absolutely incredible tags created for your inspiration by my sponsors and guests. The 25 Days of Christmas Tags Pinterest Board for 2020 has all the tags from my guest designers and the 25 Days of Christmas Tags design team for the entire event. Inspiration whenever you want it!


456 pins on the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020

This year's linkup is full of so many gorgeous tags created by you during the event! 

1415 tags linked up in total--WOW!

 So much inspiration once again this year. Remember that you can always come back and view all these tags anytime if you need a little Christmas spirit!

With the help of random.org the winners have been chosen for this years event.
Prizes have been drawn from commenting on the posts on this blog during the event, the posts done for the event by my sponsors/guests and from the tags linked up following the set guidelines outlined the first day of the event HERE!

****Winners you have until Friday, December 18th, 11:55 pm EST to email me HERE with the subject line to read '25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 Winner'. Include your full name, mailing address with postal/zip code, email address and the name of the prize that you have won

If you have not claimed your prize by the deadline I will need to draw another name, I'm sorry no exceptions!

Winners

Michele K Henderson
Sunny Studio Stamps - $25 Gift Certificate

#48 - Angela
Simon Says Stamps - $50 gift certificate

Mary Holshouser
Altenew - $25 gift certificate

#1271 - Mary-Anne V.
Newton's Nook - $25 gift certificate

artful notions
Ellen Hutson - $25 gift certificate

#533 - Robyn Oliver
Stamplorations - $25 gift certificate

Lisa Elton
Stamplorations - $25 gift certificate

#140 - Susan Renshaw
£20 - Uniko gift certificate

Lisa`s Creative Niche
Avery Elle - $25 gift certificate

#617 - Becca Yarling
Pink & Main - $50 Prize Pack

Karen Letchworth
Reverse Confetti - $25 gift certificate

#1005 Bunny
Reverse Confetti 
- $25 gift certificate

Ms. Tamp
Birch Press Design
- $25 gift certificate

#258 - Laury55
Pinkfresh
- $50 gift certificate

Subhashini
Paper Sweeties 
- $25 gift certificate

#732 - Gail
Lawn Fawn/Lawnfawnatics 
- $25 gift certificate

Arianna Barbara
Honey Bee Stamps 
- $25 gift certificate

#888 - Katie Ann Brooks
Concord & 9th 
- $50 gift certificate

Dawn S.
Picket Fence 
- $25 gift certificate

#240 - Chandhini
AJVD 
- $25 gift certificate

Fikreta
Waffle Flower 
- $25 gift certificate

#647 - Pat Gotsis
The Greetery 
- $25 gift certificate

#150 - erin t
Studio Katia 
- $30 gift certificate

#541 - Karen B
Erin Lee Creative 
- $50 gift certificate

Sharon G
Penguin Palace - 
 $35 gift certificate

#260 - Angela
Heffy Doodle - 
£35 gift certificate

Jade
Pretty Pink Posh
 - $25 gift certificate 

#1163 - ca_hoosier (Suellen Rowe)
MFT Stamps 
 - $50 gift certificate

Julie P
Pear Blossom Press
 - $25 gift certificate

Cassie Martin
Scrapbook And Cards Today - Autumn Scrapbook Kit

#3 - Beverly Sizemore
Janes Doodles - $35 gift certificate

Congratulations to all of the winners and thank you everyone for participating this year! 

There is ONE more prize for this years 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2019 Superstar! This special prize is for one person who participated in ALL 26 Days of the event and that the tags were made according to the contest guidelines




You could be the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 Superstar if you created a tag for all 26 days of the event, link your name up here by 11:55 pm EST Friday, December 11th and I will draw one name to win this gorgeous project bag handmade by design team member Kim Heggins, Running Stitch Designs

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Covid free New Year! Stay safe!

November 27, 2020

Singing Snowman


Happy Friday!
I hope all my American friends are having wonderful Thanksgiving.

I have a post up on the Studio Katia blog this morning. I am finished my tags for this year and I am full on finishing up my Christmas cards now.

Hope you have a chance to head over to have a closer look at my card, see what products I used and a few more photos. Have a wonderful weekend!


 

November 26, 2020

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day 26

  


Check out the 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 Pinterest Board we  have so many amazing designer tags added so far--Click HERE to see them all!

Welcome to Day 26, Bonus Day!! All the details and the linkup can be found HERE!




I cannot believe how quickly the month has flown by, but I am thrilled to share that for our Bonus Day I have My Favorite Things as my final sponsor.
They are offering one lucky winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store.

I have some of the designers from My Favorite Things Stamps here today to share some amazing tag inspiration with you...









And today's Special Guest is my talented friend Donna Mikasa!

From the 25 Days of Christmas Tags Design Team...







...and one more from me!

Tracey McNeely


Thank you all so much for visiting every day for the past 26 days! 
 A special thank you to Kim Heggins, Lindsey M-P, Joyce Mehrberg, Carol Mayne, Lindsey Larsen and Ardyth Percy-Robb. They are my amazing design team and have worked with me behind the scenes for months and have probably paid a visit to your blog if you linked up a tag this year!

I hope that you found the event inspiring. There are almost 450 tags from all of our guests on this years Pinterest board, link above and as I finalize this post there are 996 entries in the linkup, my guess is by the time you read this is the morning we will have crested 1,000! I have been so inspired by all of your creations.

Watch over the next couple of days for the linkup for the special prize for the 2020 25 Days of Christmas Tags Superstar chosen from those of you who add your name to the Superstar link up and made a tag for all 26 days of the event!

Remember that you still have one more week to finish up your tags and add them to the main link for your chance to win one of the many prizes sponsored by 30 amazing companies! 

The contest and linky will close December 3rd 11:59 pm  (EST)! Prizes will be announced on or before December 10th here on my blog.


November 25, 2020

25 Days of Christmas Tags 2020 - Day 25

  


Welcome to Day 25!

If you are just arriving for the first time all the details and the linkup can be found HERE!

Can you believe that here we are at Day 25! It seems like we just started!
We have one more day, our bonus day, tomorrow and then the link up will remain open for one more week for those of you who are trying to get your tags done. Remember there is a special prize chose from those who have made a tag following the guidelines for every single day of the event. Stay tuned there will be a special linkup for that prize coming after the bonus day is over! Stay tuned...


We are so excited to share that Pretty Pink Posh as today's sponsor.
They are offering one lucky winner a $50 gift certificate to their online store.

I have some of the designers from Pretty Pink Posh here today to share some amazing inspiration with you...



My very talented friend Karen is my special guest today...


From the 25 Days of Christmas Tags Design Team...




...and a few tiny tags from me!

Tracey McNeely