Hello and Happy New Year! It's my turn today and much of my thoughts since the festive period have been taken up with remembering to say thank you for the lovely gifts we recieved. I always think it's really important to say thank you and so this year I have made lots of tags. Tags are so quick and easy and, much like ATCs, are an easy base to start any project.
I started by die cutting the tags and then covering half in Shabby Shutters Distress Ink. The second half I covered in Seedless Preserves Distress Ink, blending the join in well.
Then I used a mask (if you have been to craft show lately these are one of the current trends!) and spritzed Perfect Pearls Mist over the top and dried each tag with my heat gun. I then edged each one with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and added two stamped images and my sentiment.
The sentiment could be a stamped image, one you have printed from your computer or perhaps from a Dymo machine or similar (I love my Dymo!) A little coordinating ribbon finishes it off! I thought you might like to see them all together - the stamped image looks like it is behind the Perfect Pearls - but I did the stamping afterwards - it's clever isn't it?!
My wonderful mum has kept lots of things I have made over the years and here's a couple of recent thank yous I've made - see, I told you I liked making them!!!
Thank you for popping by today! I hope you have a great day and will pop back tomorrow to see the next creative inspiration from my fabulously talented DT colleagues!
Gabrielle x
You sure made a lot! Nice to have a stash of them at hand for when you need them too!
Posted by: Belinda Basson | January 08, 2012 at 08:02 AM
Love all the misting and masks they are gorgeous
Posted by: Katherine | January 08, 2012 at 09:22 AM
Very delicate and pretty - what a good idea to have them ready in advance.
Posted by: alexa | January 08, 2012 at 09:28 AM
Excellent masking technique. Fab tags!
Posted by: Gail | January 08, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Brilliant idea to bulk make them, and love the masking technique x
Posted by: Debbie | January 08, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Pretty! Happy New Year.
Posted by: Aviaries | January 08, 2012 at 02:46 PM
I agree- thank you's are important. The masking looks great.
Posted by: Victoria h | January 08, 2012 at 08:31 PM
lovely far too many people forget to send a thankyou nowadays (me included) this is a lovely way though and i might just do something simular x
Posted by: jayne | January 09, 2012 at 01:31 PM
I like to send Thank you cards too, I think I'll use your tag idea and have some ready.
Posted by: Lynne | January 10, 2012 at 08:43 AM
I love tags. These are gorgeous.
Posted by: ifa | January 16, 2012 at 08:21 AM