Reindeer Gift Tags

Well, here are my reindeer tags. I made 100 of them with the help of my Dad. He glued on all of the eyes and noses for me while I went to work. Thanks Dad! All DP are by SU. I just love their selection of designer papers, don't you? I used my marvy punches for the circles. I like the size and punches are fast! Here are the tags... I had many ideas floating around in my head on how to package them...yes, I am one of those perfectionists that has to be satisfied with the packaging...so one day at lunch, Glenn drove Joy and I to Heiko and we hunted for the right packaging. I finally decided on these clear chinese take out boxes. The boxes contained 10 of these reindeer tags and I tied a pretty bow with some 1 1/4" red striped grosgrain ribbon and I just realized that it's not in the current catty! (gasp!) and the finishing touch was a cute tag that says 10 Holiday Gift Tags on it. You likey? I made 10 of these and they sold out!

I will be posting another gift tag and tin tomorrow. This wonderful idea was a borrowed idea...thanks for dropping in today!

The Large Gift Tags

I wanted to use up my "scrap" pieces of cardstock that I had left over from cutting my tag kit. I had tons of these sahara sand cardstock strips left an then it hit me. I could fold them in half and make a large gift tag out of them! I really liked the size. You could use it as a card too. I just didn't have any envelopes in my stash to sell it as a card.
Here are the five different designs that I made. Remember my favorite guy in the red suit? A cute snowman ... coloring this image was a little challenging because I had cut the DP and mounted it on before I colored the image. I had to go with something soft for this snowman. I really liked the colors that I ended up with.

A playful pup...

A silly penguin...

A cute monkey...

Another snowman image. Aren't they so cute? Did you know that I love snowmen stuff?

I made a total of 30 cards, wrapped them in cello bags and closed them with a punched out image in a circle. I sold them for only $1.00 each! What??? Are you nuts? Yes, I am! Hey, I figured that this is the season of giving and I hope that all of you that bought these large tags from me know how much time and effort it took me to create them just for you! I think it's the coloring that is therapeutic for me. I'm thinking of making more and maybe I'll be giving them away.

Thanks for dropping by today! It's Aloha Furlough Friday for me...going out to lunch with some GF's. Tomorrow, I'll be posting my reindeer tags and how I wrapped them. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

A Successful Craft Fair

Well, the craft fair is over and I've been a busy bee rushing to finish product to sell for the fair. I made 30 of these large gift tags which you could also use as cards. Thanks to the gal who took a pic of me, joy, kyoko and linda...it was really sunny and HOT and we had no shade! I guess a tent would've been good. As you can tell, I was dressed inapproprietly as it was cold when I left home early...Joy said next year and I said she would have to twist my arm to get me to do this again...haha! I had so much fun with you gals yesterday!

Thank you to all who stopped by, shopped and told me you read my blog (blush...) Happy Thursday! I'll post more photos of what I made tomorrow!

A different version

This is a different version of the Berry Christmas card I made for the silent auction. I added color to the design...old olive for the wreath, always artichoke for the holly, real red for the bird and berries and soft suede for the ribbon and sentiment. This color combo went well with the DSP, again from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty paper pack. For this version, I also used the ticket punch on each corner and added a tiny rhinestone to each corner. A closer look at the colors...

I'm not sure if I'll be making alot of these cards for the craft fair as I'm on a roll making the tags.

Thanks for dropping in today!

Birthday Wishes

This past weekend, Cute Stuff was having it's 12th birthday celebration and I had to go down to check it out. Here's the birthday card I made to give for the occasion. Lucky thing I had this image already colored cut and ready to go. Made the card making process a little easier! This card uses the same layout like the snowman card I made the other week using white on white. Adding color gives it a different look don'tcha think? Supplies: So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise cardstock. Can't remember what the DP was from (sorry!).

Here's what the inside looked like.

Can't believe how fast the weekend just zips by! It's Monday already, but a short week for me - we have a furlough Friday this week. Wishing you a wonderful start of the week. You made my day by visiting me! Thank you!

Santa Gift Tag

Happy Sunday everyone! I'm still working like crazy to make stuff for the craft fair that's happening this Wednesday. Had some help from my GF Wini last night jamming and making tags! I decided to go with more tags than cards because of the size, it's easier to mass produce! I'm trying to use up my larger "scraps" and came up with this. I think I'll make it into a large tag. Another view...

I love the Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP (mini catalog). Did you know that this paper has texture? The white designs feels like crushed velvet (or something like that) so it's prettier IRL. The ribbon is a taffeta ribbon - Mellow Moss is the shade. I like how it's subtle but adds just the right touch to this tag. The Santa image is from a retired SU set called Naughty or Nice, but isn't this Santa cute? Cute Santas are hard to come by. So, what do you think of this large tag? I'm working on mass producing these size tags today. There will be other images as well so I'll share more sometime this week.

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and thank goodness we didn't get a whole lot of rain on this side of the island! Thanks for stopping by today!

Double Dasher

Happy Aloha Friday, Friends! I made it through the long week! Here's a couple of mini cards that I made this morning...didn't have time to create last night as I was at Kailua's first scrimage. Almost to the end, the game was called off by the ref because of lightening and thunder! Well, here's the pair of cards that I created with my Dasher stamp (#116816). I love this single stamp set! Background cardstock is Sahara Sand, layered with scraps from the Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP (#116770) and Real Red and Soft Suede cardstock to finish up the layering on each card. I added a couple of rhinestones on the antlers, not sure if you can see it from this photo. I'm thinking of adding a felt snowflake to each of the cards, but didn't have time to add it on this morning. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I need to buckle down and work on my holiday event coming up on December 5th and 12th (for downline) and the craft fair...keep dry! The weather man said it was going to storm!! Thanks for your visit today!