Oh no ............... did someone say Christmas is just Days away???? I have to get started!!! So much to do and so little time. I have cards to make and I have not yet decided what style I want to make. Plus I need to get to the post office since I heard on the radio that the P.O is planning a temporary price hike in October until January which will make mailing our cards a tad more. More that is unless we all jump in now and hoard some Forever Stamps! Which is exactly what I am going to do. Then of course there are the Christmas tags. I for one love making tags. They can be quick and easy or you can put a little more time into them and they become little works of art that hopefully the recipient will hang on their tree as an ornament to treasure for years to come. I enjoy making both. But I will admit my favorite is making the more elaborate ones. Believe it or not I find it so relaxing and satisfying. But...............not today! Today I need to get the ones done that I can slap on a gift for under my tree that the grandkids will either rip off or not even look at except to see if their name is on it. It will eventually be swooped up and tossed in the trash along with all the wrapping paper and empty torn boxes. So why do I bother? Why don't I just go to the Dollar store and buy the sticker "To/From" tags? Because it's tradition in my house. Just like it is tradition that "Apa" (what the grands call their grandpa) wraps the gifts he gives in newspaper no matter what the occasion.
So today I'm making tags from a 6x6 paper pad and some plain card stock for base tags. Now I am also the type of person who gets bored with the same look and style. So as easy as a mass production would be (and you could do that if you'd like) I have to take the fork in the road every so often.
Today's paper pad is called RED AND WHITE CHRISTMAS by RECOLLECTIONS.
I got this pad last year from Michaels and I'm not sure if it's available this year. Truth be told...I ordered it online from Michaels and have not actually stepped into a Michaels store since the Pandemic began. I don't exactly have a phobia it's just that I got so comfortable during the lock down that I now find it hard to get motivated to actually get dressed and get into the car to go into a physical place when I can just have stuff sent here. I know I know.... friends have said to loosen up. Get out. I am just very slowly. Anyway, back to tags. There are 24 sheets of 12 designs. When I looked at them 2 of those designs (so 4 of the sheets) are actually cut-a-parts. So, you have 20 sheets of which you can work with. I will be working with half of those as super quick and easy tags for this post and save the other half for fancier tags for another quick post.
I cannot wait to start the fancier ones! I decided to see how may tags I could get out of the 10 sheets that I will be working with and since I get bored with the same style I had to make sure I had at least 3 different style tags. Even if it was just a small change. I cut up 5 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11" 60# white card for bases in various sizes. I got a total of 50 tags out of those sheets but ended up using only 21 of them. The rest I will use with the scraps when I have finished the rest of the pad. I also added a couple 6x6 sheets of red and grey for some layering. I mean simple doesn't have to be totally boring right? So here's the first set of simple simple tags. 21 of them.
Not bad. Like I said these are super simple ones no fancy embellishments just "Stick and Slap" as I like to call it.
Now on to a little more elaborate.
Til next time.................................................
WOW! Look at all of those tags. Well done, Susan!
ReplyDeleteGreat use of the DP and I love how you cut the images out of the DP on the Lt- I never know how to use those! Awesome.
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