Bagged and Tagged Challenge

Papertrey Ink's 8th Anniversary Bagged and Tagged Challenge. The challenge is to make a tag to go with a gift bag. I used the Tasting Tag as a combination Gift Tag and Presentation Tag for a Dachshund pin. The holes to tie the spoon on are perfect for holding the pin.

The dachshund pin is cut out of felt with the die from Come All Ye Faithful and sewed with a two tone handspun embroidery thread. My new favorite  felt pin closure is a safety pin (they just lie better on felt in my opinion). The stamps are from Come All Ye Faithful Additions and  a stamp made by cutting fun foam with the die set."Wag" and "Swag  and the silhouette on the bag are stamped with Pure Poppy ink. The washi tape was a gift, no idea who makes it but it is lovely. I didn't have a "Le" stamp, so I had to wing it with a Sharpie.

Because Simon Says All Creatures Great and Small, I'm including it there also : ).

Paper Weaving

A tag with paper weaving.  The Papertrey Ink Make It Monday#180: Paper Weaving and Simon Says Tag It.

I wanted to use the border cut and a double layered in my weaving, so the rest of the strips I chose were softer hues cardstock and white vellum. I taped all the ends to a piece of Classic Kraft cardstock and then started to weave. The side to side pieces were all the same cardstock and I didn't have a lot of it so I stitched every thing down.

Since the challenge at Simon Says is Tag, I used my 1/2" side of the Corner Chompers and a standard hole punch and voila a tag.

I was heavily influenced by Melissa Phillips post on layering with vellum for the focal point, using two layers of purple vellum over the Classic Kraft cardstock die cut with Papertrey Ink's Limitless Labels 2 1/4 square die set and inked with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink. The square is edged with Dusty Concord Distress Ink, edged with paper piercing and stamped with a two part stamp from Papertrey Ink's A Little Inspiration stamp set (in Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord). With a few Mirror Stars from Tim Holtz' Ideology. The bow is Papertrey Ink silk ribbon dyed with Seedless Preserves spritzed with water on my craft mat.

Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary Celebration, Day 2

Today is Day 2 of Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary Celebration. The challenge was to utilize the Stamp Designers' images.

This element was designed by Lizzie Jones and attached to the card with foam dots. I stamped the Friendship Jar and the Tulips and string from the Friendship Jar Spring Fillers onto Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock with Black Soot Distress Ink.

Erin Lincoln designed the cassette tape, which is all about road trips to me, so I used the Road Trip stamp set and used my Versamark marker to finish the edges with a little faux stitching.

For Melissa Bickford's image, I picked up the colors of the embellishment with co-ordinating cardstocks in stripes Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartruese, Summer Sunset and Raspberry Fizz.

Beth Silaika designed this sweet little bee. The background is made with distressed Summer Sunset hexagons over a Harvest Gold cardbase. The hexagon punch is from Creative Memories (purchased a longggggg time ago) and the edges are distressed with Tim Holtz Tonic edge distresser.

Maile Belles' Hello tag is backed by a Pure Poppy 2" EK Success Scalloped Circle. The foliage is drawn on with a Fine Line Sharpie. The cardbase is Ocean Tides and the corners are rounded with the Corner Chomper.

Dawn McVey designed this Happy Birthday image. I traced "Happiest" and the white circle with a Zig pen and then made polka dots on the Hawaiian Shores mat and then let loose with the Prima Ultrafine Prisma Glitter. The white grosgrain ribbon is from the Club Ruby Designers February kit.

I made a top fold A2 with Simply Chartruese for Heather Nichols' bird with a background stamped with one of my first PTI stamp sets, Four of a Kind. The foliage is stamped with Versamark and the flowers with PTI Fresh Snow. The blue mat is Hawaiian Shores.