Today we are celebrating the Winter 2019 Catalog release products from Hero Arts! It truly is the best time of the year and Hero has some absolutely incredible new products! Want to know some of my favorites?
All the Reactive Inks re-inkers are a MUST. I absolutely adore the Reactive Inks. Check out THIS post for cards made entirely with these inks!
Paper Layering Poinsettia dies were die cut from Hero Hues Cranberry, Meadow, and Dove White cardstock. The petals of the poinsettia were inked with Sea Salt Reactive Ink. The edges of the leaves were inked with Green Apple Reactive Ink and then all over with Sea Salt Reactive Ink. The petals on the flowers and leaves were all bent to give depth and dimension. The flowers were assembled with three layers were flower. The flowers were adhered to the card as shown.
Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project(s). Click the icon for the store underneath the thumbnails to start shopping. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
We will giveaway $50 gift cards to the Hero Arts shop to two lucky winners drawn from all comments left across the hop. Comment by August 31 at 11:59 PST. Winners will be announced on the Hero Arts blog the following week.
This brand new release is perfect for all your summer-themed crafting and more! I love the stamps, dies, and stencils from this release so much that I created a card showcase featuring eight brand new products with a layered stenciled and stamped background technique! The Nautical Stripes Stencil and Buoys Stencil create the most amazing nautical themed backgrounds!
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Watch the creation of these thanks and thinking of you cards featuring stamps, dies, and stencils from the Rest & Refresh Release from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
A Simon Says Stamp Frames Die was die cut from the background and from Soft Navy Cardstock. The background was inlaid onto a white top fold card base as shown to instantly add interest and a border to the design.
The tag was adhered to the design with foam adhesive and Glossy Accents was added to the anchor, finishing the top of the design with a white heart accent.
My final card share today features the Buoys Stencil and multiple ink colors for this awesome background. The buoys were stenciled with Duckling, Chili Pepper, Surf Blue, and Soft Navy inks. Sponge Daubers were used to do the inking and Post It Tape to mask off areas quickly and easily. The was stamped over the buoys with Surf Blue ink.
A Simon Says Stamp Frames Die was die cut from the background and from Soft Navy Cardstock. The background was inlaid onto a white top fold card base as shown to instantly add interest and a border to the design.
White heart accents were added to some of the buoys to complete the card.
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Simon Says Stamp is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop from the blog comment section. Winners will be posted on the SSS blog on Wednesday, the 12th of June. Winners can email us to claim his/her prize :)
Today's gift tags are inspired by THESE Bear Hugs Ornaments I made during the holiday season. I love the Essentials By Ellen Bear Hugs bear so much that I'm finding ways to make felt ornaments year round just by changing up the accessories, colors, and what the bear is holding! Just like the holiday felt plush ornaments I added perfectly matching gift tags with the coordinating All Inside Stamp Set. Simply remove the paper tag and the recipient is left with an adorable plush ornament decoration! I pulled out all the stops with these: they are stuffed with polyester fiberfill, I sewed on sequins/beads, additional felt pieces were added and I even made heart-shaped paper tags that can be removed after the gift has been given so that the bear can be an ornament or decoration.
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To watch the creation of these valentines bear hugs felt plush gift tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
Each felt bear was created using the following:
Cut two of the Bear Hugs bear shape using Marshmallow, Heather White, or Heather Gray felt.
Cut hearts with the Candy Hearts dies using Red Hot, Cherry Blossom, and Pink Sherbert felt. (use the little mini hearts for cheeks and backside of the bears)
Cut hair bows with the Put A Bow On It dies using Red Hot, Cherry Blossom, and Pink Sherbert felt.
The bears were stitched back to back, twine was sandwiched between the layers, and stuffed with polyester fiberfill.
Bows from the Put A Bow On It were hot glued together and then hot glued to the top of each bear's head.
The arms were stitched at the sides and hot glued over the present and tree to secure them to the front.
For the matching gift tags, the Mama Elephant Scallop Tags Trio were used to die cut a Bristol Smook Cardstock tag for the front and a smoke gray cardstock tag for the back.
The bear from the All Inside Stamp Set was stamped on each white tag, the arms were masked, and a heart was stamped in the arms of each bear. The masks were removed and the images were colored in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.
A black pen was used to add detail to the eyes and nose. A white pen adds highlight to the nose.
On the gray cardstock back of each tag, a sentiment from The Stamp Market Bear Hugs Stamp Set was stamped with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
The tags were threaded onto the twine and the twine knotted to secure each paper tag to the felt tag.
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Welcome to Day 6 (the final day) of my last minute Handmade Holiday 2018 Series!
I'm back with my fifth year of last minute handmade ideas! Five years, you guys. Wow. Thank you so much for your support of this series. I have been overwhelmed and almost considered not doing the series this year but I kept getting emails and comments asking for it so I sat down to make a list of projects I could do and I got really excited. So this series is for you crafting friends. I appreciate each and every one of you and y'all make this possible. Much love to everyone.
The goal of this series is adding handmade touches to gifts for our friends and family. Even with the craziness of the season I like to be able to personalize the gifts under our tree. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing mostly quick (an hour or less) Handmade Holiday ideas for cards, tags and gift wrapping sure to add that handmade touch we all love. Most ideas will include multiples (today I created lots and lots of felt tags and ornaments)!
Each Handmade Holiday project blog post will feature a brand new, never before seen project(s) plus an incredible giveaway from a generous sponsor!
FELT STITCHED ORNAMENT GIFT TAGS WITH STAMPED GIFT BOXES
Last year I created a set of paper tags with the Lawn Fawn Stitched Ornaments Gift Tags adorned with Nuvo Crystal Drops. You can see those HERE. Those ornaments were the inspiration behind this years tag ornaments even though they couldn't be any different. What I love about crafting is how the same supplies can be used completely differently for new and unique looks. I'm sharing some flat "hot glued" gift tag ornaments as well as how to created polyester fiberfill stuffed plush ornaments with "non-stitching dies". While I generally try to keep the projects more on the quick and easy side, these are another set of tags that take a bit longer to make. I couldn't stop at just one or two.... and I couldn't not make gift boxes for the two sets of ornament tags! Wouldn't these make awesome gifts in and of themselves?!!!!
The video is long but it's basically 3 projects in one. Felt Gift Tags, Felt Plush Ornaments, and Stamped Embellished Gift Boxes. I hope you have enjoyed this series as much as I've enjoyed bringing it to you!
Merry Christmas!
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To watch the creation of these felt ornaments, tags, and gift boxes from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
We are going to start with these felt gift tag ornaments. I used the Winter Tiny Tags for the majority of the tags but also used the medium size Stitched Ornament Die for variety. The great thing about all these dies is that they already have a hole in the top making them perfect for gift tags! The Lawn Fawn Stitched Snowflakes and Mini Snowflakes perfectly adorn these felt tags.
Sequins and seed beads were used to embellish both sides of all pieces (except for the mittens where I only did the top of each) and then the pieces were hot glued back-to-back. this gives each a more finished look.
To sew sequins/seed beads on I used two strands of embroidery floss, came up from the back of the piece in the center and added a snowflake sequin, a regular sequin and finished with a seed bead. I wrapped the needle/floss around the seed bead and went back through the center of the sequins and the back of the piece, repeating the process for all the sequins. The seed beads "anchor" each sequin in place! This is a super quick and easy way to embellish your felt pieces. The plethora of sequins and seed beads I have from making shaker cards comes in so handy!
I like to add a simple paper tag with my felt ornament tags. Something that looks nice tied onto a package but that I didn't spend tons of time on because it's easily discarded by the recipient and they can keep the felt ornament to use as decoration.
Want to give a set of ornament tags or handmade ornaments as a gift? The Lawn Fawn Gift Box provide the perfect presentation! I added some simple stamping to the box lid, decorative corners, a removable felt bow, and even a tiny, tiny felt ornament to really customize the Gift Box.
The bow pieces were die cut from felt and assembled with hot glue. The bow was slid onto the box.
A tiny Stitched Ornament was created from felt and added to each box to tie it all together.
The Stitched Ornaments large die makes the perfect plush ornaments. I adorned each side with a Mini Wreath sewn on with sequins/seed beads and filled each ornament with polyester filberfill for a plush ornament. These can be given as ornaments in the Gift Box or used as gift tags by adding a simple tag like I show below.
The Stitched Ornament pieces and Mini Wreaths were die cut from felt. Each side of the ornament was adorned with a wreath sewn on with sequins and seed beads. A bow was hot glued in place.
The two sides of each ornament were placed back-to-back and whipstitched together, leaving a small opening to fill with polyester filberfill. The top of each ornament was secured with hot glue and the contrasting ornament topper.
Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project. Click the icon for the store underneath the thumbnails to start shopping. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
Welcome to Day 5 of my last minute Handmade Holiday 2018 Series!
(there will be one more day, so please stay tuned for my final Handmade Holiday post coming soon!)
I'm back with my fifth year of last minute handmade ideas! Five years, you guys. Wow. Thank you so much for your support of this series. I have been overwhelmed and almost considered not doing the series this year but I kept getting emails and comments asking for it so I sat down to make a list of projects I could do and I got really excited. So this series is for you crafting friends. I appreciate each and every one of you and y'all make this possible. Much love to everyone.
The goal of this series is adding handmade touches to gifts for our friends and family. Even with the craziness of the season I like to be able to personalize the gifts under our tree. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing mostly quick (an hour or less) Handmade Holiday ideas for cards, tags and gift wrapping sure to add that handmade touch we all love. Most ideas will include multiples (today I created four little letterboard tags)!
Each Handmade Holiday project blog post will feature a brand new, never before seen project(s) plus an incredible giveaway from a generous sponsor!
LITTLE LETTERBOARD GIFT TAGS
I'm a huge fan of letterboards and we have several in our home. What could be better than bringing the letterboard trend into our cardmaking and paper crafting?!!! The Stamp Market unveiled this adorable Little LetterBoard Die Set during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and I immediately had to make a tag with it. Click HERE to see that first tag on Instagram. Today I'm going to share how I made several letterboard tags and even a little variation using dies from Mama Elephant paired with The Stamp Market Little Letterboard. The sky is the limit with crafting. Mix and match your supplies to showcase your unique style! I hope y'all enjoy the tags today.
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To watch the creation of these little letterboard gift tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
These Little Letterboard gift tags feature dimensional die cut letters on the letterboard fronts and stamped and embossed sentiments and "to/from" on the backs for a polished and professional look.
On the back of each red panel, sentiments/phrases from The Stamp Market Merry Days and Made With Love stamp sets were stamped with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
The frame was die cut from smooth white cardstock and adhered over the red background front. I layered two frames per letterboard to give the frame a bit more dimension.
Smooth white cardstock was adhered to Fun Foam using Stick It Adhesive and the Little Letterboard alphabet die was die cut from the medium multiple times. The benefit of die cutting the letters from the dimensional material is that they stay together and are easy to pull out and adhere to your project. I used a small pair of craft tweezers to make it even easier working with the small alphabet.
For the variation on the tags, I paired the Little Letterboard with the Mama Elephant Favor Bag Santa/Elf Add On (santa, hat) and the Favor Bag Dog Add On ("mittens"). I colored in Santa's face with Copic Markers and assembled him according to the video directions. The letter board was adhered right below his nose and the "mittens" to either side of the letterboard to make it appear he is holding it in front of himself! Isn't it cute?!!! Image making lots of these with elves, reindeer, or other Mama Elephatn Favor Bag Add On critters. The Simon Says Stamp Big Picture animals would work great as well!
Holes were punched in each tag and red/white baker's twine threaded through and knotted to finish the tags.
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Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project. Click the icon for the store underneath the thumbnails to start shopping. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
Welcome to Day 4 of my last minute Handmade Holiday 2018 Series!
I'm back with my fifth year of last minute handmade ideas! Five years, you guys. Wow. Thank you so much for your support of this series. I have been overwhelmed and almost considered not doing the series this year but I kept getting emails and comments asking for it so I sat down to make a list of projects I could do and I got really excited. So this series is for you crafting friends. I appreciate each and every one of you and y'all make this possible. Much love to everyone.
Even with the craziness of the season I like to be able to add handmade touches to gifts for our friends and family. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing mostly quick (an hour or less) Handmade Holiday ideas for cards, tags and gift wrapping sure to add that handmade touch we all love. Most ideas will include multiples (today I created five felt ornament tags with matching paper tags)!
Each Handmade Holiday project blog post will feature a brand new, never before seen project(s) plus an incredible giveaway from a generous sponsor!
BEAR HUGS FELT ORNAMENT GIFT TAGS
Today's gift tags are inspired by these Plush Felt Ornaments I made two years ago. Want more ideas on felt ornament tags you can make? Check them out HERE. This year's felt plush ornaments feature perfectly matching gift tags with the coordinating Bear Ware Stamp Set. Simply remove the paper tag and the recipient is left with an adorable plush ornament decoration! These tags aren't as fast as some of my other projects but they are totally worth it. I pulled out all the stops with these: they are stuffed with polyester fiberfill, I sewed on sequins/beads, additional felt pieces were added and I even made interactive paper tags that can be removed after the gift has been given so that the bear can be an ornament. In the video I will give some tips for making these a bit quicker and easier if you're pressed for time. ;)
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To watch the creation of these felt plush gift tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
I kind of have a bear theme going with this year's Handmade Holiday Series. We've got the polar bears from THESE gift tags, the polar bear sticking out of the pocket in THESE gift bags, and now some felt ornament tags! I hope you guys enjoy these as much as I do. And, if you're short on time, try making the paper part of the gift tag only. It's super cute and all five were made in less than an hour!
Each felt bear was created using the following:
Cut two of the Bear Hugs bear shape from white or gray felt.
Cut arms from the Bear Hugs dies from matching white or gray felt.
The Bear Hugs gift package was backstitched to the bear front with red embroidery floss and the "ribbon and bow" with silver embroidery floss.
Eyes were created with french knots and a mouth was backstitched with black embroidery floss.
Sequins and seed beads were stitched by the holly leaves.
The Winter Window tree was hot glued to the design and then a star sequin and shimmer seed bead were stitched to secure the top.
The Home and Hearth red felt heart was hot glued to the backside of each bear and then the bear was stitched together, securing red/white backer's twine at the top, stuffing each full of polyester fiberfill to make a dimensional ornament.
The arms were stitched at the sides and hot glued over the present and tree to secure them to the front.
Here's a close up look of the detail of the sequins and seed beads. I love the bit of sparkle they add to this project!
For the matching gift tags, the Mama Elephant Framed Tags Union Square were used to die cut a solid red cardstock tag for the bag. The tag and stitched interactive opening were used to die cut Bristol Smooth Cardstock for the tag fronts.
The hat and candy cane from the Bear Ware 2 Stamp Set were stamped on the tag fronts, masked and then the bear from the All Inside Stamp Set was stamped. The masks were removed and the images were colored in with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.
A black pen was used to add detail to the eyes and nose. A white pen adds highlight to the nose.
Nuvo Crystal Drops in White Blizzard were added to the brim of the hat and the pompom.
Greetings from the the Bear Ware 2 Stamp Set were stamped on the red tag with clear embossing ink and heat set with white embossing powder.
The tag front was secured to the red solid tag with 1/8" scor tape.
The tag was threaded on to the baker's twine with the felt plush ornament to finish the design.
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I'm so super excited to share today's project with you. I am addicted to felt this season. I know this is the first felt project you're seeing here on the blog this holiday season but I've got more coming soon so be sure to subscribe to my blog HERE or check back regularly!
These felt tags are fantastic in that they make a gorgeous presentation on a package but can be used by the recipient after the gift has been opened as a pretty ornament or decoration!
Even though these Mama Elephant dies aren't necessarily made for stitching projects, I wanted to show how you can take regular dies and make them extraordinary with some pretty felt, sequins, seed beads, and a little string. Let's get started!
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Watch the creation of these felt snowflake ornament tags from start to finish below or click HERE to watch in HD:
Tags and snowflakes were die cut from felt (I used Taylored Expressions felt I have in my stash but you can use any high quality felt) using the Scallop Tags Trio Dies and Flurries Dies. Each tag is two tags, adhered back to back after stitching a snowflake to one side. If you want to make the ornaments two-sided, adorn each side with a snowflake before attaching them back to back.
To give each tag a bit more stability and also to hide the stitching on the back, I hot glued tags back-to-back.
To finish each tag, I stamped "to/from" from the Mini Messages Stamp Set on a die cut Mini Tag using clear embossing ink and heat embossing with white embossing powder. The tag were threaded together with some pretty twine.
Once you've given the gift, the recipient can cut off the "to/from" tag and they're left with a beautifully embellished ornament!
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Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project(s). Click the icon for the store underneath the thumbnails to start shopping. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
Welcome to Day 4 of my last minute Handmade Holiday 2017 Series!
I'm back with my fourth year of last minute handmade ideas! Even with the craziness of the season I like to be able to add handmade touches to gifts for our friends and family. Over the next couple of weeks I'll be sharing mostly quick (an hour or less) Handmade Holiday ideas for cards, tags and gift wrapping sure to add that handmade touch we all love. Most ideas will include multiples (today I created two interactive spinner tags)!
Each Handmade Holiday project blog post will feature a brand new, never before seen project(s) plus an incredible giveaway from a generous sponsor!
POLAR BEAR INTERACTIVE SPINNER TAGS
Christmas spinner tags have been one of the most popular posts on my blog the last couple of years. To see the reindeer spinner tags from 2015, click HERE, and for the 2016 sheep spinner tags, click HERE. This year I created some polar bear spinner tags with the awesome Beary Happy Holidays Stamp Set.
The front of each tag was stamped with a Simon Says Stamp Gingham Background Stamp and Versafine Onyx Black Ink. The "cling" side of the Stamp Platform made it so easy to add the buffalo check pattern to each tag! Using a large background stamp instead of small images makes adding a decorative touch fast and easy. The goal of these tags was to make something cute and fun in less than an hour!
Banners were die cut from vellum using a Fancy Folded Banner Die. A greeting from the Beary Happy Holidays Stamp Set was stamped on the vellum banner with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. Each banner was folded on the score lines and adhered to the front of each tag.
The front and back of the polar bear from the Beary Happy Holidays Stamp Set were stamped on smooth white cardstock using Jet Black Ink, colored in with Copic Markers, and die cut with the coordinating dies.
The images were run through a Xyron Sticker Maker to add adhesive to the entire back of each image. Gold embroidery floss was sandwiched between the front of back of the polar bear and then centered in the cut out circle and sandwiched between the front and back of the tags.
Small heart tags were die cut from Chili Pepper Cardstock using a Tiny Tag and then stamped with a "to/from" greeting from the Tiny Tag Sayings Stamp Set using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The tag were attached with black twine to finish the gift tags.
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To watch the creation of these interactive spinner tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
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The extremely popular 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist is back again this year at Ellen Hutson! Each Day their are prizes and tons of inspiring ideas for creating some amazing tags!
I am thrilled to be guesting today with a color inspired tag with a focus on Mama Elephant. Be sure to check out all the fun details HERE on today's inspiration and to see the rest of the tags for today and leave a comment on the Ellen Hutson Blog for a chance to win a $25 gift certificate!
The tag base was die cut from smooth white cardstock using a Hexastar Die. Snowflakes from Sentiments From Yeti were stamped on the tag with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder. The edges of the tag were masked off with post it tape, and Iced Spruce Distress Oxide Ink was used for embossed resist.
The Yeti and santa hat from Me and My Yeti and the Santa from Little Santa Agenda were stamped on smooth white cardstock, colored in with Copic Markers, and die cut with the coordinating Me and My Yeti Dies and Little Santa Agenda Dies. The images were adhered to the tag front as shown and the excess trimmed off the bottom of each tag.
The back of the tag was die cut from black cardstock and stamped with greetings from Sentiments From Yeti and Mini Messages using Versamark Ink and heat embossing with white embossing powder. The tags were adhered back to back.
Hole reinforcers were die cut from white cardstock using the Hexastar Die and adhered to the front and back of the tag.
A mini tag was die cut from smooth white cardstock using a Mini Tag Die, stamped with a greeting from the Mini Messages stamp set using Versamark Ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder, and embossed resist inked with Iced Spruce Distress Oxide Ink. The heart was colored in with a red Copic Marker and finished with some Glossy Accents.
Both tags were strung together using red/white twine to finish the design.
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To watch the creation of this trio of stitched gift tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
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Happy Friday friends! I'm so super excited to share my latest gift tags with you! These feature some of my favorite Lawn Fawn deer images from Cheery Christmas and Tobaggan Together, stamped on wood slices, and colored with colored pencils before drilling a hole in the top of each and threading some twine through them to create tags! Easy, rustic, and so much fun!
The deer and any accessory images were colored in with Prismacolor Colored Pencils, blended out with Gamsol and embellished with Ebony Black and Autumn Red Nuvo Crystal Drops for the eyes and/or noses. "Snow" was added to each tag with a sprinkling of drops in Simply White.
Once the Nuvo Crystal Drops were completely dry, I drilled a hole in the top of each tag with a drill bit, threaded some rustic twice through each and knotted the ends to create these adorable gift tags that that double as ornaments!
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To watch the creation of these wood slice stamped ornament tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
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Below you will find links to the supplies used to create this project. Click the icon for the store underneath the thumbnails to start shopping. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Your support helps me to keep bringing you new projects and videos. Thank you!
