Gift Card Tags

Today the new challenge over at Die Cuttin' Divas is to make some tags!

I'll be showing you how I make these Gift Card Tags. They are wonderful if you give gift cards out at Christmas time (or anytime really) but I love that they use recycled supplies too.

First step is RECYCLE!! I always love a project where you can recycle and craft! Save a toilet paper roll or two (or paper towel roll if you prefer).

I find that the best way to flatten out a TP roll is to run it through your Cuttlebug. It works great! Next,  staple it shut on only one end and the sides of the open end (see the pictures).

Don't worry about the staples, the paper will cover them up, they sure make

assembly fast... no waiting for glue to dry.

Next cut paper to fit the flat roll. My paper was cut to 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and is from the DCWV's Christmas stack from last year... if you use mini stack there is no trimming required.... that would be even easier.

Then cut a tag that will slip into the tube. You can hand cut a tag that measures 2" x 4 3/4" or use the Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge and cut a tag using 2". You'll need two tags for each tube. I sandwich the two tags together for strength.

Punch a hole in the tag, set and eyelet and thread on some ribbon. I used my 3/16" hole and eyelets setter on my Crop-a-Dile. I used two lengths of ribbon, each measuring about 9". I couldn't resist adding some jingle bells to my tag's ribbon too. :)

I added a tag shape cut from Winter Woodland, I used my Gypsy to size it to 3 1/4" x 2" and a matching shape for the shadow sized to 3 1/2" x 2 1/4". I mounted the colored digi image from Whimise Doodles.com.

Check out this page on my blog for three easy ways to color a digi.

Here is a picture of each of my three different tags

The stamps are all Studio G $1 bin stamps.

 I inked all the tags and sleeves with ink and a finger dauber.

And I simply couldn't resist a "Jingle all the way" stamp on the tag.

I added a "to:" and "from:" stamp to each set too.

See how great the gift card fits the tube! And you can feel great about recycling

(and you gotta love free supplies)! As easy as these are to make, kids could easily help out. Let them color the digital stamps, even covering the tp tubes is an easy job. How about this as a holiday break activity?

I hope you'll hop over to Die Cuttin' Diva's and enter the Tag challenge. This time the challenge will be running for two weeks, so you have time to fit this challenge in. :)

Baseball Birthday Tag

I have this fun tag to share with you today.  I made it with a special little boy in mind. His birthday is coming up in July and he just loves his baseball! 

The tag measures 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".  All the cuts are from Boys will be Boys, cut at 2 1/2". I cut the background layer from some scrap of some DCWV glitter paper (from Nana's Kids I think). The card base and the bat are both scrap Bazzill card stock, they both have a wonderful linen texture. When I inked the bat with the brown ink, the texture sure stands out nicely.

I hand cut this little pennant and added a Studio G stamp. I added little red tails to the pennant to help the red stitching in the baseball stand out.

Here is the baseball.  It cuts in two layers, thankfully the white is the top layer and the red is the bottom layer... I'd hate to have to piece those little stitches. Like usual, I added some white gel pen doodling to the shadow layer. Here you can see some of the twine. I wrapped it around the blue glitter patterned paper before I popped the whole layer up on pop-dots.  Then, when I applied the bat and ball, they each got a layer of pop dots too.

I had just a little left over of the patterned paper, so I added it to the inside of the card.  I used my We Are Memory Keepers 1/2" Corner Chomper to this layer and the card base too. Here you can also see the little rectangle punch I used so I'd have a place to string this tag to the gift.

Challenges:

Wacky Wednesday : Tag

Tuesday Throwdown : Male card

Die Cut Dreams : Red, White, and Blue