Making Tags for Gift Bags

Happy bank holiday Monday to you!
Honestly, we went out yesterday and it was just lovely, so hot and more like the height of summer than May, but I reminded hubby and the smallest child we had gone out the Sunday before and all wished we'd taken coats! It's a funny old thing the British weather, no wonder we have such a national obsession with talking about it ;-)

 Anyhoo, I was browsing through to decide what to post this morning and I realised I didn't share these gift tags with you yet. I made two designs when we went to On Stage in Telford in April, one style to give to my downline and also one for Julie who organises our food each time we go away :-)

I'll start with my DL gift bags, they were decorated using both A Good Day and Tabs For Everything stamp sets...

 Tags made with some of that lovely SaB paper, layered with a matching copper foil and thread topper with sentiments and image from "A Good Day"

 I added in pens and post it note tabs for remembering where all those essential pages of the new catalogue with your new favourites on ;-) But, how cute are these little characters?

And of course, I also added chocolate!

So, for Julie's gift bag (containing choccy too ;-)) I used a Rose Red colour combo to match the bag, teamed with the Wood Words stamp set - Love Wood Words <3 nbsp="" p="">

 Isn't Rose Red with gold just so classy and elegant? I will be sad when this colour retires at the end of May but happily the Wood Words stamp set is staying *so happy*

Well, this started out as a quick post but then as I added the second set of tags it took me much longer than I hoped, so sorry it's a bit later than planned before I published ;-)

I hope you have a lovely day in the sun on this long weekend,
Happy Stampin'
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Products Used to create this project:

Tabs For Everything Photopolymer Stamp Set (£15.00)	Wood Words Wood-Mount Stamp Set (£27.00)	Rose Red A4 Cardstock (£7.25)	Rose Red Classic Stampin' Pad (£6.00)	A Good Day Clear-Mount Stamp Set (£17.00)	Layering Circle Framelits Dies (£32.00)	Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies (£27.00)
Gold Mini Sequin Trim (£5.50)	Scalloped Tag Topper Punch (£21.00)	Gold Foil Sheets (£3.75)	Copper Foil Sheets (£3.75)

Inspire. Create. Challenge. First Ever Challenge!!! #001

Hello!
I am so pleased and proud to have been chosen to join the DT on this new challenge blog - Inspire. Create. Challenge. This is a new, fortnightly (Yes! Lots of fun inspiration and ideas, regularly) challenge blog with clever and talented DT members so there's sure to be a lot of great inspiration each fortnight :-)

I don't know about you but I love a good challenge, it's great for when you have a little creative block to work to a challenge- be it a colour, sketch or theme challenge you're sure to be inspired to create something!
Today is the very first challenge (#001) on the BLOG and the challenge this week is to use Basic Grey, Calypso Coral and White for your cards/projects.

So lets see what I came up with shall we. And as it's the very first challenge I decided to make two cards using this colour combo...

 This first card uses the Wood Words stamp set. I stamped in Basic Grey and coloured using an aqua painter with Calypso Coral, then after it dried I used a blender pen to go back in and add more coral to accent to the watercoloured flowers. I did also add a few (sneaky) Garden Green leaves too ;-)

 This sentiment from Better Together, I do love this font.
TIP: Carefully roll your die cut shape in an ink pad to make it pop on a card.

 Finish with a few sequins for some subtle bling.

 Now, this second card uses the spotlight technique with the little wreath from At Home With You.

 I stamped the wreath repeatedly across the card front and then die cut a heart using the Sweet and Sassy framelits before colouring the images in the heart shape using my blender pens.
TIP: Blender pens are great for colouring really little images like this.

 Wrap a little ribbon around the edge before glueing it down onto a coral card base. Finish by adding the heart, slightly off set, with dimensionals so you can see a little pop of coral and you're done!

And once more together to finish today :-)

Well, it's been a picture heavy post today so if you are still reading, I congratulate you! And many thanks for stopping by today. Please do stop by the challenge blog to see what the other DT members have made and I'm sure you'll be inspired to create something so I'll look forward to seeing what you make using these colours!
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Stampin' Hugs,

Products Used to create this project:

Wood Words Clear-Mount Stamp Set	Better Together Clear-Mount Stamp Set	At Home With You Photopolymer Stamp Set	Calypso Coral A4 Cardstock	Calypso Coral Classic Stampin' Pad	Basic Gray A4 Cardstock	Basic Gray Archival Stampin’ Pad
Aqua Painters	Blender Pens	Iridescent Sequin Assortment	Fine-Tip Glue Pen	Calypso Coral 1/4" Ombre Ribbon	Sweet & Sassy Framelits Dies	Multipurpose Liquid Glue