A couple of my friends came over to dinner this week and to make some tags. I had the Oh What Fun tag project kit all ready but because Nicole hasn’t stamped ever before, I decided to add a couple of extra tags to show her some of the fun things that we can do with ink and paper.

We did them pretty much to the instructions although we used mint macaron ink for all the green rather than garden green for some. Apparently I was having too much fun to read the instructions! And then after we were finished we decided to upgrade the thin bakers twine to metallic cording trim or real red cotton ribbon or even metallic gold thread since it matched the bow so well. On the back we stamped the to and from which is also in the set that accompanies this tag set (and the kit is on sale at the moment). Sometimes I confess, it was difficult because we’d already finished the tag with bows or dimensionals before stamping. Definitely challenging.

Once we’d each completed the 10 tags in the kit, it was time to move on to the extras. First we started with the bow builder punch and the merry moments paper and numerous glue dots. My sister designed this tag when she was here last and I know that Julia likes this punch. Then we took the precut 2 inch strip of cherry cobbler and made the top pretty (and made a hole for the twine) with the scalloped tag topper punch. Then it was time to impress Nicole with the heat embossing – it’s a shame that it’s in white since the metallics really pop but she was wowed anyway.

The last tag was using my favourite sleigh ride edgelits dies which I cut out of a real red circle the same size as the base of the tag. This way the curves match up. The textured whisper white piece is the next size down in the circles collection and we then dry embossed it with the softly falling textured embossing folder. This wowed Nicole also. It’s really fun showing people what you can do with paper and ink and tools.