Saturday, November 30, 2013

Thanksgiving Tag Party

This is of course Thanksgiving week for Americans.  Always a nice time to get together, share a meal or two and in my house...make tags.  Each year, while the men watch football, the rest of us make tags for Christmas packages and neighbor gifts.  For obvious reasons, my house is always a good one to host this kind of party since I have all the supplies one would need.  We keep it simple with inks and rubber stamps.  Although this year I introduced a few die cuts to the group...gotta love the antlers!
I photographed a few of the tags we made in case you wanted to have your own Tag party.  New stamps mixed with old, Distress and Archival ink, finished off with Trimmings...all good things for making great simple tags.
On another note, since a lot of Tims stamps come in small versions, we found that you could make a very similar tag using a #5 size (instead of the #8) which are great for smaller packages, jar labels, or on gift bags.

Note: I used Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap on all tag edges

Stampers Anonymous - Seasons Silhouettes
Archival Ink - Vermillion, Library Green
Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time
Mirrored Star
Alcohol Ink - meadow and gold

Stampers Anonymous - Seasonal Catalog 1
Archival Ink - Vermillion
Sizzix Trophy Antlers Bigz Die
Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time
Trimmings - Red and Cream
Chit Chat stickers - seasonal

Stampers Anonymous - Christmas Time and Deco Christmas
Archival ink - Sap Green (my favorite green for backgrounds!), Black
Trimmings - red and cream

Stampers Anonymous - Seasonal Catalog 1
Archival Ink - Vermillion
Sizzix Trophy Antlers Bigz Die
Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time
Vial Labels
Trimmings - Red and Cream

Stampers Anonymous - Winter Sketchbook and Seasons Silhouettes
Archival Ink - Olive, Library Green, Vermillion
Distress ink - Frayed Burlap (background stamp)
Mirrored stars
Crinkle Ribbon
Distress Stain - Barn Door and Vintage Photo
This is the one picture I took that night of my best friend's daughters that were home for the holiday.  Becca tried Distress Markers for the first time and fell in love.  Rachel went the more traditional route and stuck with stamping.  Either way we all had a great time and we now have finished tags for wrapping presents. 
Happy Holidays...now carry on,
paula



12 comments:

  1. Love your tags! We no longer exchange gifts, but I sure do love looking at tags.

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  2. 'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas'.......wonderful tags!

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  3. Looks like a lot a fun was had by all! Love the tags!!

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  4. Oh that sounds like fun! Love the deco tag with the Sap Green ink. And those antlers just make me smile. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Paula - what a wonderful tradition! I would tag with you if we lived closer! Happy Holiday preparation time!

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  6. The tags are wonderful!! It's my birthday and I just spent a small fortune on TH dies and stamps online and after seeing these I most definetly need the antlers!

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  7. PAula thanks for sharing! The Sap green is one of my fav Archival! love it!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful tags! hugs BArbarayaya

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  8. Love it! I am going to order the sap green!

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  9. What a fun idea, a tag party....I LOVE IT!!.

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  10. This is such a good idea! A couple of friends would like to try stamping and what a nice simple way to get started while letting them be creative in their own way! Love your tags, especially the green trees tag. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  11. How fun!!! I want to have a tag party!!!! Great idea. The tags produced from this one are wonderful. Love the mix of stamps and remnant rubs! So festive. -- Mary Elizabeth

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