Christmas Tags in a Box

With this post I am show casing some Christmas tags I made for my swap partner.  Our swap was Saturday past so it is 100% OK for me to publish these images.

I mostly used Graphic 45's Christmas Emporium and few other scraps, some bits and bobs.

Warning!!!!  Image overload..................... *grin*

The above image is the cover of the book which houses the 5 tags I created.  The book itself, the Christmas tree, outlines of presents, snowflake under the poinsettia and the poinsettia itself was cut with my cameo using papers from the collection. Don't you just love that lace??!!

Close ups of the cover.

The image below shows the closure of the book at the side

The images below show the inside of the book.

The Five Tags

Tag No. 1

  

Tag No 2

Tag No 3

Tag No 4

Tag No 5

The snowflake is an actual Christmas tree ornament and added to that is an image from Tim Holtz Seasonal idea-ology paper collection.  I love the music sheet at the back of the tag!

It was such fun to create this for my swap partner and rather difficult to part with at the time but the consolation is that I can always make another for myself :-).

I hope you feel inspired to create some keepsake tags from your favourite paper collections too.

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Goodie Box for Secret Sisters Swap Group

Hi all, I recently started a swap group in Dubai and our second swap, which I hosted on Saturday 15th September, was a goodie box swap.  Rules of the swap was to buy 5 new items not exceeding the agreed amount and to fill the rest of the box with goodies from your stash.  I loved how my box turned out and took some photographs which I am sharing and detailing in this post...enjoy

The image above is my box at a glance...went for a slightly vintagy style but wanted to make it unique and also suitable to be kept in a craft room or space to store craft stash

I cut the delicate flourish and September calender month and wording with my Cameo, ink distressed it, embossed it and stamped it with a script stamp. I love the effect the layering of the Prima flowers on the flourish!!!

The dress form was also cut with my Cameo and I embossed it with copper powder.  I bought the vintage looking doily at a thrift shop and cut it to the size as indicated on the box.  Under the doily is really pretty green lace and on top of the doily is a brown lace flower.  Gold butterfly is a button by Bo Bunny and of course the rose and flowers are by Prima.  The 3 paper roses on the side was cut with my cameo and I dabbed it with white acrylic paint for additional effect.

Layers of lace, ribbon and flowers - love the gold corner embellishments I used on this box.

Layers of flower clusters fill this corner of the box and that awesome butterfly is yes...you guessed it...cut with my Cameo; it is so pretty.  I inked and glittered it and placed some bling on the wing.

Again the image above shows layers of lace and ribbon and  layers of  clustered flowers - so pretty; all kinds of different matching  flowers I found while rummaging through my stash. Under the flowers is a lace   doily I cut with my Cameo and at the back of it is a flourish and a wooded ticket - love the effect!!

Flourish frame, scissors with wording all cut with my Cameo.  I traced the shape on a sheet of Prima Printery paper and adhered the tow together with glossy accents.  Under the flourish frame I glued 4 buttons to give the illusion of 3D effect for this centre piece.

Views of the different sides of the box - as you can see I just ran some lace around the bottom.  I bought the box as is and I loved the vintage look of it and therefor did not cover it with patterned paper.

 Filled with yummies...of course I went over board as usual but the pleasure is in the giving right??!!

There is a page on my blog dedicated to the swap group; click on that page to see images of the other goodie boxes.

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