Showing posts with label Gift Tags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gift Tags. Show all posts
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Christmas Tag Swap, Take 2
I signed up for two spots on the annual Christmas tag swap over at Stampin' Addicts, and this weekend I got the second tag finished. It's based on several ideas I've seen in the past week or so. The first idea came from this poinsettia card I spotted on Vicki's blog. She saw it on Connie's blog, which inspired her. Vicki's inspired me. I liked how well the Vintage Wall embossing folder went with the poinsettia, and it made me remember a cool technique I saw last weekend on Diana's blog, using the same embossing folder, which she called bisque pottery. Diana has a great video showing how to do this technique, which involves using a brayer on one side of an embossing folder to add ink on the non-embossed parts of the card stock. Such a cool technique, and it was just what I needed for my tag. The DSP is Deck the Halls and the sentiment stamp is from the set All Holidays. I used one of the larger antique brads for the center of the poinsettia. The antique whitewashed one really goes along well with the bisque pottery look, but I only had seven of those left, so I had to use two of the other larger antique brads, which also look good. I can't wait to see what I get in return!
Friday, November 5, 2010
Christmas Gift Tag Swap
Spoiler Alert! If you are participating in stamper_jamie's Christmas gift tag swap, you might not want to scroll down.
I've had a lot of fun over the past year participating in card, scrapbook layout, and now gift tag swaps! I broke down and picked up the Two Tags die a while back, and I decided to use it for my swap. It was fun coming up with the design, which was inspired by this gift tag made by the talented Connie Collins.
Seriously, though - how many of you out there suffer from the same problem that I do? I'm talking about being corner rounder punch challenged! If you round the corner of two pieces of card stock that you will be layering, shouldn't the curves of the corners match up? I tried and tried but the curvature of the two pieces just never seemed to match. Is it just me?
I've had a lot of fun over the past year participating in card, scrapbook layout, and now gift tag swaps! I broke down and picked up the Two Tags die a while back, and I decided to use it for my swap. It was fun coming up with the design, which was inspired by this gift tag made by the talented Connie Collins.
Seriously, though - how many of you out there suffer from the same problem that I do? I'm talking about being corner rounder punch challenged! If you round the corner of two pieces of card stock that you will be layering, shouldn't the curves of the corners match up? I tried and tried but the curvature of the two pieces just never seemed to match. Is it just me?
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