Holiday Treat Bags

I love making little treat bags for my co-workers for the holidays. Just a little something to spread some holiday spirit and show my appreciation for their help throughout the year.

Here is a sampling of the bags I made this year:

I knew I wanted to create a window and originally chose a snowman die BUT his arms stretched out the the sides too far so I nixed that and went with this super cute tree die from Reverse Confetti.  I put transparency on the inside behind the die cut and then glued the tree branch to the front.

Here is a shot of what's inside:

I also made a little tag to go along with the bag - I put "from Liz" on the back. Bags are tied with some chenille stems I've had forever!

I am submitting my little treat bags to this weeks' Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas/Holidays.

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Ingredients: MFT Paper Bag Treat Box; Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Tag Me; Studio Calico Cool Yule; Pebbles misc pattern papers

Water color Christmas tag for 12 Tags of Christmas…..

It's time for Ellen Hutson's annual 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist!

For Day 1 - the fab Julie Ebersole treated us to an ombre water colored tag with a die cut wreath. Here is my tag inspired by her creation:

Since my wreath was too big for my tag dies, I used Reverse Confetti Sweet Treat Tent die and cut off the top tab, trimmed the bottom flap and rounded the bottom corners to match the top. I've seen this die cut used for a tag before and I loved the idea!

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Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Sweet Treat Tent; WPlus9 Woodland Wreaths; misc sequins

Snowy Joy Christmas card

Time for another Christmas card! For this card I broke out my new Reverse Confetti dies - I am in love with these!!!! My card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Christmas/Holidays.

I went for sparkle and shine in this card!

Here's a detail shot:

And here's the inside - I recycled the negative left from the frame on the front:

Photo isn't that great because of the shine from the card stock, but you get the idea. Since I can't write where the sentiment is, I adhered a piece of pattern paper to the top inside of the card to write on.

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Ingredients: Reverse Confetti Branch Out, Let it Snow; MFT Joy Photo Frame, Grand Holiday Greetings; misc foil card stock (Michaels); Doodlebug pattern papers

It's a "Bumble" Christmas!

I've been wrapping up my Christmas cards and today's card is being submitted to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Holiday Cards.

I made a super cute card for my niece - I was inspired by my fav holiday special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I knew I had a santa, a reindeer and that Yeti makes the perfect Bumble, so I made a little scene featuring my beloved pals:

Here is a close up of my Bumble:

And here is the inside of the card featuring a sentiment stamp from Purple Onion I got ages ago:

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Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go!; Paper Smooches Santa Paws, Word Bubbles dies; Reverse Confetti Tinsel n' Trim (HoHoHo sentiment); Studio Calico Cool Yule (trees); PTI In the Meadow (Snow drifts); Purple Onion Oh by Golly…. (interior sentiment); Glittered fun foam (snow banks)

Snow Monster Gift Tag

I am a BIG fan of the 1964 claymation classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, so when Lawn Fawn came out with Yeti, Set, Go! my brain saw the "Bumble!" I made a tag featuring the "Bumble" and am submitting to the the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge featuring Lawn Fawn stamps. 

I white heat embossed the outline of the Yeti image and then colored him in with color pencils. 

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Ingredients: Lawn Fawn Yeti, Set, Go!; PTI Tag Sale #4, Tag-Its #8 (sentiment)

Snowman Tags for The Card Concept

Now that most of the Christmas cards are done, I've moved onto gift tags!!! My tags today feature my fav snowman from Hero Arts' Snow Much Joy stamp set!! I will be submitting my tags to The Card Concept Challenge #24 - Snowman (Make a Tag) and to Tracey McNeeley's 25 Days of Christmas Tags Flickr Group.

My first tag falls under the Clean & Graphic style:

I really like how this turned out! The scarf, nose and hat were colored with my Bic Mark!It markers.

My next tag is Clean & Simple:

For this tag, I heat embossed the snowman in white and then colored him in with Prismacolor pencils.

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Ingredients:
Tag #1 - Hero Arts Snow Much Joy; Studio Calico Very Merry (sentiment); Reverse Confetti Tag Me die
Tag #2 - Hero Arts Snow Much Joy; PTI Wet Paint Holiday dies, Tag Sale Die #1

Snowflake Gift Tags

I have a set of tags I made to submit to a few challenges:

First up, PTI's November Blog Hop - the theme is SNOW!

Inspiration photo:

Next it's the The Cutting Edge Challenge #15
Inspiration photo:

And last but not least the 25 Days of Christmas Tags by Tracey McNeely.

WHEW! Now onto the tags!

I was inspired by the colors in the Cutting Edge inspiration photo. I'm sad that this is their last challenge - I love the concept they created and I wish I had been able to join in more.

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Ingredients: PTI Snowflake Medley, Tag Sale #1, #3, #5, Wet Paint Holiday