TAGS From 12x12's

 Quick!!!! Christmas is coming!!!!  I know!!!  What the heck...where has the time gone?  I thought I still had time to shop.  I haven't even had the grandkids make a list yet and I sure haven't made any new tags for gifts.  So I thought I better get started.  

If you remember last year I made tags from those cute little 6x6 paper pads you can get either from Michaels or even Amazon if you like special ones like I do.  I'm a big fan of Authentique and G45 so I tend to do alot of shopping on Amazon for those but if I want a quick inexpensive pad I go to the Michaels Recollections series.  They are usually $5.99 and cheaper when on sale.  You can find deals on Amazon for other lines of pads too like Doodlebug and Echo Park.  Both have real cute Christmas collections. I listed 2 below at end of my post.  Any way I made as many tags as I could from one pad and I believe I came up with over 60 tags.  It was great and alot of fun.  You can see one of the posts TAGS

So this year I decided to use those 12x12 sheets we card makers never seem to use from those paper pads we buy.  Example........I bought this pad from Michaels last year on sale for $5!  Yep $5!  12x12 scrapbook paper probably 65 pound in weight (not listed on pad) but there are alot of sheets that I would never use as a card maker.  They are really intended for scrapbooks.  Take a look.

heres the pad I bought

these are the sheets I pulled from the pad.

There are 2 of each one of these 12x12 sheets in the pad.  So I am going to show you how to turn these into some pretty cute tags so these pages just don't sit around collecting dust in your craft room.  Ready?

First lets cut the green snowman sheet the red Christmas tree sheet and the black and white checked sheet with white center.

These were the easiest to cut.  Most tags are around 3x6 in size or 2.5x4 so keep that in mind when doing your cutting.  Work around whatever pattern is on the paper if you want but it's not necessary..  Example here with the red I cut the paper in half then the tags on the left measured 3x6, the ones on the right are 3x4.

  The other 4 we are going to trim off the decorative borders.  Sizes will all be different but thats ok.  I'll show you each sheet after I cut it so you see what I mean.  We don't really need the middle parts but may use it to make embellies.  With one of the sheets I decided what the heck cut it all up words and all.  You can always cover up the words with something.  A flower, a star, a tree.  There are always options.

Oops just noticed the last sheet was upside down. Oh well that's ok. I am not really sure what I want to do with the middles of these sheets.  First thought was to make some funky looking poinsettias, which I still might.  Another idea was to cut maybe a contrast layer for the tag front.  So from the looks of things I believe I was able to get 58 tags from 7 pieces of 12x12 papers.  Just think if you like smaller tags you could get a whole bundle more! 

I thought about having you wait til the next post to see some of the tags but it looks like they already need to be used so I will share the ones I have done so far.  These are not complicated.  I kept them simple so that even if you have very limited supplies you can make these look amazing.

I think there are 25 here so I have about 33 more to go.  Friends and family will be so impressed with your tags when they find out you made them.  So come on cut up those un used sheets of scrapbook sheets.  Might as well use them for something super cute!  Stay tune for more tag reveals later.

Til then.........................................................

HAPPY CARDING!

. Echo park here Doodlebug here