Scrap 'N Stamp Canada | Halloween tags

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For Anything but a Card I made a couple of Halloween tags using some new to me products purchased this year.

For this first tag I ink blended a background to cut my tag from using Distress Oxide inks--Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Villainous Potion. I flicked black watered down acrylic paint on the panel.

The die cuts are all from the Tim Holtz Wicked and Gothic Protraits die sets.

The boo sentiment was cut from Spellbinders dark grey glitter cardstock.

A little piece of white paper was glued behind the cat's eyes.

For my second tag, which I almost did not post, I used the Lawn Fawn Cauldron lawn cut. The panel was first ink blended with Distress Oxide inks--Shaded Lilac and Wilted Violet. Everything was going well until the end...been there before? An embossed sentiment over a bumpy surface is never a good idea, but it actually turned out not bad. Not as bold as I hoped but not bad either.

This is where it all went wrong. My white gel pen has been sitting for too long and it wasn't flowing--grrrr! That is something that can't be undone, so lets just call it wear marks on the sides of the cauldron.

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Teacher Gifts

My kids do not do teacher gifts anymore. In University it would be considered a bribe in high school it isn't really done, at least not as a senior.  I wish that all the awesome school themed stamps and designs were available when my kids were small and we were doing teacher gifts for all the teachers.

My daughter, however, did a two credit co-op this past semester in a JK/SK class as she wants to follow in my footsteps and be a teacher. Last week on her last day, "Miss Brooklyn" came home with 25 handmade cards from her students.  She will never throw them away, I know that. Yesterday was the SK graduation so she went back for the festivities and wanted to take a gift for the teachers she worked with as well as the SERT and the EA. We had planned on making sets of thank you card for each, but Brooklyn decided that she would like to give each of them some of my cards (since I have so many of them). So she selected an assortment of birthday, thank you, sympathy, all occasion and get well cards. We packaged them up along with envelopes in glassine bags, tied them with bakers twine and created thank you tags for the fronts.

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Papertrey Ink - October Blog Hop

Time for the October Papertrey Ink Blog Hop!

This month we were asked to make a set of 5 tags for the upcoming holidays.

The perfect opportunity to use my new snowflake dies.

Adorned with dequins and ready for co-ordinating string.

Happy Hopping!

Frightfully Delightful Tags

I have some fun some fun Halloween tags here for you today. I die cut tag shapes with Papertrey Ink's Tag Sale #7 die in orange, kraft and green and then stamped the images with Onyx Black VersaFine ink. Added some matching baker's twine and they are ready to be attached to some cute Halloween favour bags.

Frightfully Delightful

Cardstock:  Orange, kraft, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps:  Frightfully Delightful (Fresh Squeezed Stamps)

Ink: VersaFine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

dies: Tag Sale #7 (Papertrey Ink)

other: assorted baker's twine

Mother's Day Wrap Up & MFW Gift Tag Challenge

I hope that all Mom's had a wonderful Mother's Day.

I wanted to take a moment to show you how I finished up my Mother's Day gifts for my Mom and my Mother-in-law. Jumping on the bandwagon with the 'tea' craze this year both Mom's got some loose tea and an infuser from David'sTea.  Then I used Laurie Willison's Card Hanger die to create custom gift bags that co-ordinated with the Mother's Day cards I made last week HERE and HERE. I die cut the card hangers from white and then stamped them using the same images as the card in the same colours.

I am linking up my tags to the Moxie Fab World 350 Cards & Gifts Tag Challenge.

Edit:  Ooops French side of the box showing!

Quick and easy!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 25

Today's tag is number 25!

I guess that means I better get wrapping.

If you would like to see all the tags on my blog for both 2011 and 2012 with the supplies list you can click HERE.

Or if you would like to see all the tags in my Pinterest Gallery click HERE.

The 2011 Tags are HERE.



Thanks for joining me for 25 Days of Christmas Tags and for all of your sweet comments!

Merry Christmas!

Cardstock:  Ripe Avocado, Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: Handmade Holiday (Simple Stories)
Stamps: Holly Jolly Sentiments (Lil' Inkers)
Ink:  Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink)
Dies: Tag Sale #6 (Papertrey Ink) Holly Jolly (Lil' Inkers)
other: jute

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 23

All Supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted:

Cardstock:  White, Blueberry Sky
Patterned Paper: Christmas Prints
Stamps: Tremendous reats Christmas, Tiny Treats Christmas
Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
Dies: Tag Sale #2 (PTI) Circles, Scalloped Circles (Spellbinders)
other: satin white ribbon, jute, assorted Copics, Gelly Roll Stardust clear

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 22

I have been loving the reindeer images in the Hero Arts set I bought at Michael's last week, the number is CL540.  A great set to use with Copic markers.  This reindeer is bigger than most standard tags and I really didn't think I could tackle those antlers to fussy cut.  So I created a custom tag. To miter my corners evenly I cut one side, flipped the cut piece over and held it over the opposite corner where I could see exactly where I needed to cut.  In creates perfect mitered corners.

Cardstock:  White (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Reindeer (Hero Arts CL540) Santa Notes(Neat and Tangled)
Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)
other: Christmas twine (Divine Twine), Assorted Copics

Tonight after school my daughter and I baked 72 cookies for the family cookie exchange on Sunday.  I tried this new recipe for Candy Cane Blossoms and I promise they were so yummy.   

While we were baking my son was at a job interview for Target Canada.  We don't have Target in Canada, but we are getting it after Christmas--Woo Hoo.  Long story short he got the job, his first part time job!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 21 (A)

In our family of  5 siblings, 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren the cousins draw names at Christmas.  Brooklyn drew her cousin Sean who is leaving tomorrow morning to head back to Fort McMurray, Alberta and will not be back home for Christmas.  So she wanted to chose this masculine tag that wasn't too girlie!

Merry Christmas Sean!

Tag: 97% Complete Specimen (7 Gypsies)

Stamps: Santa's Notes (Neat and Tangled)
Ink:  Pure Poppy, True Black (PTI)
other:  red twine

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 21

Cardstock:  Spring Rain(Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: Snowy Day (old Karen Foster)

Stamps: Sewign Box Christmas (Waltzingmouse) CL356 (Hero Arts)
Dies: Tag Sale #5 (PTI)
Ink:  True Black (PTI)
other:  jute

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 20

Does it drive you crazy when a new stamp doesn't take the ink properly?  I stamped off quite a few, used a white eraser, even a light sanding.  Some stamps stamp off perfectly without doing a thing and other take time to break in.  Oh well, eventually.

Cardstock:  Vintage Cream(Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: CL469 (Hero Arts)
Dies: Tag Sale #4 (PTI)
Ink:  Dark Chocolate (PTI)
other:  jute, gold ribbon, jingle bells

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Tag 19

A really simply tag today, sometimes that is all it takes.

Cardstock:  Kraft (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Santas's Notes (Neat and Tangled) Sewing Box Christmas (Waltzingmouse)
Dies: Tag Sale #3 )PTI)
Ink:  True Black (PTI)
other:  Christmas twine

I am sharing some photos from my daughter's cheer leading competition today.

The competition was Cheer for the Cure and it was to raise money to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.  There were 163 teams from Ontario, Quebec and New York and 3,500 athletes competing.  My daughter is in the middle of all the photos--standing in front centre in the first, jumping in the middle in the second with her ponytail going up and in the front flying in the third.  It was a long and really exciting day.