TAGS from 12x12's Part 2

 I must say I could spend days at the table just making tags.  I find it so relaxing to just cut and glue away!  Finishing up these tags was a hit and miss assignment though.  Ended up some were taken by the kids and some were used all before I was even able to get them photographed but thats ok I'm sure you will be seeing plenty of tags.  I also made a ton of embellishments for the tags.  Most for me but then I made extras for my Granddaughter for a project she has been working on and she was in need of extra embellishments.  So I thought before I send them out to her I'd get a photo to add to this post to share with all of you.

Truth be told before she came to pick them up I had also punched out a bunch of scallop circles in 2"  1.5"  1.25" and 1" and then a few 2" scallop ovals a few fancy edge squares in 2 sizes and alot of 2.5" snowflakes.  I love my punchs!!!  So easy to just sit while watching TV and punch away!.  LOL

So even though some of my tags got used I still managed to make another 10 and it looks like I can still get a few more by using those center pieces with the words on the sheets.  Which I found usually get covered up by the embellies anyway so you don't even notice.  Did I mention that already?  I feel like I'm repeating myself...hmmmmmm.

Anyway heres the next 10.

Lets see if I can squeeze another 23 out of the scraps so I can stick to my original post stating 58 tags from 7 sheets of 12 x 12.  You bet I'm going to try!  I love a challenge!

Til next time...............................................................

HAPPY CARDING!

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

Tags As A Lesson

Oh my goodness I can't believe that it has been a month since my last post.  I have been so busy lately and yet I'm not really sure what I've been busy doing lol.  Oh yes now I remember.  I started a little cooking class for my grandson who had decided he wanted to take cooking classes.  Unfortunitly his mom was unable to find anything in our area that was geared to kids 10 and under.  So being me, I stepped in and offered up my services if he was ok with learning from Ama (we are known as Ama and Apa instead of grandma and grandpa).  We he loved the idea and it is right after school and only him.  His siblings are left at home with the other grandma and this is just he and I.  So yes, I've been busy.

Then my eldest granddaughter in the eighth grade has the opportunity to go to Washington with her class.  The school dist. holds fundraisers during the 6th and 7th grades for when they get to 8th grade the funds are available for the students to go.  Well it just so happens 1/2 of 6th grand and all of 7th grade for her were done remotely due to Covid so no fundraisers were done.  Students were still offered the trip but now they have to come up with the full $1400.  Well she came to us and asked if we could pay for the trip and although we could I wanted to teach her that things don't just fall into peoples laps.  You have to work for things you want.  So we came up with our own fundraiser.  She was to make little red crates with Christmas tags and sell them for a donation of $20 or more.  Well her plan sky rocketed! She sold out!  I am so proud of her.  She was able to cover about 1/2 of the trip.  She also had to put in alot of time cutting, gluing, embellishing and painting but it was all worth it.  She did a great job and I hope she proud that she worked for this trip that she will surly be making a ton of memories on.  Here's what she had been creating at my house this last month.

No 2 crates contained the same tags.  Every single one was different.   She loved the fact that she could make her own grommets to match each tag though she thought the word grommet was dumb lol.

Well til next time............................................

HAPPY CARDING!!!!!

G45 Halloween Scraps

Halloween is sneaking up and before you know it we will all be in "BOO" land!  I always say I'm going to get all my Halloween and fall cards done early but never seem to get motivated until temps start cooling down and the pumpkins are in the fields.  Digging through my Halloween papers I found I have quite a few scraps so I decided to whip up some scrappy cards.. 

First up are some G45 scraps.  I decided to once again use the WRMK envelope punch board design card from previous post.  Simple but cute.  I mixed regular DSP and cardstock with the G45 paper that I used on the front of each card.  These were actually Cut aparts from the Halloween in Wonderland pad.  I guess I never used a few of them so I decided to cut them up even more.

The next 2 are scraps from scraps LOL.  I made little caskets from Stampin Up DSP paper.  I have no idea the name of the pack but it was an old one with houses on it.

The stickers, aren't they adorable??? Came from the the Dollar tree this year.  So darn cute I just knew I had to buy them. They help hide the fact that I put the orange layer on the wrong side of the card.  All my houses are upside down in the front and rightside up on the back.  A disadvantage when using pattern DSP with distinct 1 way pattern.  An all over willy nilly pattern works muck better for this style card.

Well these were fun and now I think I have time for some fall cards.  Just saw a new fold on you tube so I'm checking that out and I'll be repeating the fall fold I did in my last post again too.

Till net time................................................

HAPPY CARDING!

HALLO-FALL

 Ok I was trying to be funny with my title by combining Halloween and Fall by coming up with Hallo Fall!  Silly I know!  But I tried.

Anyway a couple post ago I made a Just a note card using the We R Memory Keepers envelope punch board and decided this would make a cute and easy Halloween card too.  Scraps could be used but I always seem to grab brand new papers for most of it.  Usually the background DSP is a new sheet of 12 x 12 cut into 8 pieces of 3 x 6.  Then I grab solid cardstock and each new sheet gets me 3 pieces of 2 1/2 x 11 scored at 5 1/2 for main card base and then I search card scraps for the 2 1/4 x 5 1/4 pieces of dsp for front layer.  I use whatever embellies I can find or make and then have the perfect little slimline Halloween cards.

Next is a set of 3 fun fold cards.  As far as I know there is no name for this fold.  I received the pattern from a fellow card maker on a facebook page I'm a member of.  She was sweet enough to send me a template for the card and I just traced it on to cardstock.  The DSP I used was from Graphic 45.  Just love those papers!  How cute is that Gnome?  I was lucky enough to score 2 packs of these from my Dollar Tree 3 weeks ago and I LOVE them!  I have so many more Fall and Halloween cards to make and I will for sure be using both of these folds for my upcoming cards.  Linda Maretich is the lady who sent me the template and the face book group is Lets make cards.  Just thought I'd give her credit.

Well that's it for now.  Hope you enjoyed these beauties and check back again for more Halloween ideas!

Til next time..................................

HAPPY CARDING!

HALLOWEEN TAG TIME

 So September comes and I begin to think of Fall and Halloween.  I love die cutting out or punching out Halloween dodads and making little embellishments to use on cards or tags but sometimes I go a bit overboard and have alot of extra pieces.  So I decided this time I was going to make a few tags and then gather the extra's and put the finished tag with the extra's into Happy Mail.  This way I don't have a bunch of left overs and I'm "spreading the love"! LOL

For these first 2 tags I had found some large sticker sheets.  So I adhered the sticker to an 8.5 x 11 sheet of card stock to use as the background and then cut my tags at 2.75 x 7 in size.  So I got 4 out of 1 sheet.  I then punched and die'd a bunch of stuff out and used every single element.  Even the garbage pieces of the punchs and came up with these 2 tags.

I couldn't just throw all these pieces just loosy goosy in an envelope so I made these little pockets to slip pieces into before they go into the envelope.  I've made those pockets before.  Super easy.  I then slipped the finished tag and the tag kit as well as some extra die cuts into the pocket and shipped it out as Happy mail.

Next tag is just as cute.  Same pocket idea is used for sending.  Extra diecuts inside too. This will also be Happy Mail.   With this one I added the directions for making the pocket and included a sample mini one for them to fold themselves along with the tag kit.  

Top photo shows what was used to make the tag and the image below it is the finished tag.

During the Fall I tend to hand out mini pumpkin breads and fall type muffins to neighbors, postmen, friends etc so these tags come in hand.

These are just so much fun and I love tinkering.  It also gives me the chance to use some of those punch's I just had to have a long long time ago that I don't use often.  Such as the envelope punch, the word punch, the bat and pumpkin punch.  The only down fall is that I get so involved with the punching and gluing and doing little details that all of a sudden hours have gone by and a tag still hasn't been put together.  LOL

Hope you enjoyed these.

Til next time.....................................

HAPPY CARDING!

Just a Note

 Awhile ago I made a Kewpie Christmas card using some graphic 45 papers and I really loved the simplicity of the card.  Well today I'm doing a little twist using the envelope  punch board by WRMK.  Dimensions are the same so it is still a mini Slimline card.

Here's what you'll need for this card:

1.  Piece card stock 6 x 3

1  piece card stock  11 x 2.5 scored at 5.5

1  piece DSP 5.25 x 2.25 

1  piece scrap coordinating DSL 1 x 2.25

With fold placed on the left insert into envelope punch board lined up at 1 1/4" mark and punch.  Flip over and repeat.  With top DSP line left side in board at 1 1/8" mark and punch.  Flip over and repeat.  The 1" strip is for the inside so line this piece top and bottom in center of punch and punch.

Pop it all together and Such a cute change up!

Hope you enjoyed this change up.  This goes together lickity split!  10 minutes TOPS!  i think the longest time is picking out the paper lol, but once thats done...cutting, gluing and embellishing takes no time at all. Oh and before I close here's one I did for my daughter in laws Birthday.  I also decorated the envelope.  Remember these are mini Slimline cards that fit in the standard security envelopes from the Dollar store.

Til next time..................................

HAPPY CARDING!