Good morning! Today I’m thrilled to be joining Tracey McNeely for her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event and I’m excited to represent Lawn Fawn as one of the designers for the Lawn Fawnatics challenge team!
And here’s my tag:
It’s a little unconventional for a gift tag but I thought it would be fun to create a gift tag that could be used as an Christmas tree ornament, too! I found the plastic balls on Amazon and decided to use half a ball to create a tag with a flat back. I started by stamping the alpaca from Winter Alpaca with copic-friendly ink and then colored him with copics before cutting him out with the coordinating dies. While I was die-cutting I also cut a snowy hill from white cardstock. Then I blended salty ocean and wilted violet distress ink onto a piece of white cardstock and splattered it with water. I also added splatters of white acrylic paint to create the look of a snowy winter sky. Once the ink was totally dry I stamped the sentiment from Winter Alpaca with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Next I used a circle die to die cut the distress inked panel into a circle just slightly larger than the plastic ball.
I adhered the alpaca and the snowy hill and then trimmed the excess off of the tag. I die-cut a bunch of the Mini Snowflakes from white cardstock and then piled them into the middle of the tag. I carefully sprinkled fake sparkly snow, chunky and fine glitter, and buffalo snow into the middle of the tag and then applied a very thin line of liquid adhesive around the edge of the tag. I carefully pressed the plastic ball into the glue and held it there until I was sure it had a good seal. Then I placed an acrylic block over the top of the ball to weigh it down until the glue was totally dry. I let it dry overnight before giving the tag a good shake to mix up all the snowy bits. Finally I adhered another die-cut circle to the back of the tag to make it a little sturdier and finished it with a little twine to the top of the tag.
If this is the first you’re hearing of Tracey’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event make sure to head here to read all about it and enter your tags for a chance to win a prize from one of these fabulous sponsors:
Thanks so much for visiting today and have a fantastic day!
Interested in the products I used? To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!
|
I absolutely love this tag! You are so creative.
GREAT tag, Jess! Love it!!
Such an fantastic tag/ornament Jessica! You ladies are just brilliant! TFS!
How great. It’s a tag and an ornament in one.
Kazillions of apologies for being so sporadic with commenting, but I hope you know I see and LOVE all your creations, be they on FB, IG or here! You ornament tag is absolutely fabulous! Need to track down some of these plastic balls (check on Amazon – they don’t ship to Canada – and on Amazon Canada, they’re $47 with $15 shipping! GAHhh!). Maybe a trip to Michael’s, just to see (I have a coupon *grin*)
Hugs~carol
Love snow globes and this one is darling.
A keepsake for future years of decorating
the tree.
thanks for sharing.
This is such a great idea! I’m headed over to my Amazon app right away…thank you. 🙂
What a fabulous little shaker/snow globe tag. Absolutely adorable, and creativity for miles. LOVE this! I’d like to hang it on my tree.
Karen Letchworth
OMG Jess, this is just too cute! I would totally hang this tag as an ornament on my tree!
It’s a genius idea! Great way for someone to be able to keep and use something you put so much work into!
Very cute!
So very cute!
I love that your tag doubles as an ornament!
Creative tag/ornament…..I would definitely use it for an ornament. (These would make great “little” gifts too.) That little llama is so cute!
How clever!!! Of course I love it! It’s YOU!!!
This is so cute–love the idea of using an ornament for a tag.
Fabulous way to use a Christmas tree ornament and add such interest to this very unique tag!
Love this cute tag, Jessica. Great idea to use the fillable ornament. I’m going to give this a try.!
What a clever and pretty idea for a tag or an ornament!
Love your fun tag/ornament!
BRAVO! I know for a fact working with this ornaments (and with Buffalo snow for that matter, can be very staticy) takes a lot of dedication and patience – but LOOK at the end result! AMAZING! Thank you for the beautiful inspiration!
Your tag is so adorable! I love that it can also be used as an ornament 🙂
What a great idea you had !! That’s truly adorable !
Clever tag – love the llama and the snowflakes.
it’s a great ornament! and unique! luv the background!!