Deer Tags - Christmas Card Challenges

At the Christmas Card Challenges blog they have a tag challenge going on.  We can never have to may tags so I pulled out some of my scraps to create a few guy tags as I can never have to many guy tags.

I started by tracing around a shipping tag onto some cardstock and cutting it out.  I then pulled out some Christmas paper, distressed it, inked it and added to the front of my tag.  I used the Deer from the Birch Tree Accessories and die cut a few of them and inked the edges.

 

The "let it snow" is another Unity stamp and this was stamped then cut out. Keeping things consistent I inked around the edges with the distress ink.  I have them up a zot to add a little bit of dimension.  I used wet glue on this and they are buckling a little but a day under a book with have them flat.  To finish off the top I added some embroidery yarn.

 

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Recipe:
Paper: Recollections - Kraft and white, Bright and Jolly stack (white snowflake paper); DCWV - The Christmas Stack (stripe paper); Unknown tan and orange (deer)
Stamp: Unity Kit of the Month September 2013 {happiness has no limit}
Ink: Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; Versa Magic - Aegean Blue and Pearlescent Ivy
Die: Taylored Expressions - Birch Tree Accessories
Misc.: Adhesive, zots, distress tool, embroidery yarn, scissors, Cuttlebug

Distressed Ink Tag

I used Distress ink to color the tag background. My tree started out white and I used two colors of Distress ink to color the tree along with stickles to make it sparkle. The "Happy Holidays" is a sticker.

Snowman Tag

I used the corner rounder punch to make the scallop edges on white card stock. I sponged white then capri acrylic paint onto the tag. While this was drying I cut out the snowman tag and snowflake tag from the Very Merry Tag cartridge. The snowflakes were cut out of a piece of transparency. The snowflake tag base I sponged with white and the snowflake tag was sponged with capri. A small mini brad was sponged with both colors.

I cut a little piece of orange card stock and glued this to the back for the nose, then a piece of black for the eyes and mouth. From pink card stock I traced around the snowman's scarf, cut this out and glued it to the back of the snowman, then glued the snowman to the snowman tag back.

From dark pink paper I cut a square approx 3x3 1/2 and light pink paper 3x1, rounded the corners, then glued them down. A piece of white ribbon was wrapped around the card, tied and one pom pom placed under the knot. I attached the snowflake tag base to the card with a clear adhesive dot and cut the end of the mini brad off so they would not show behind the tag.

This tag can be cut with the baby bug. Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: Paper: White card stock, various shades of pink designer paper, orange, black, and dark pink; Cricut Cartridge: Very Merry Tags; Misc: Ribbon, pom pom ribbon, mini brad, glue, Clear Adhesive dots.

Tissue Paper Covered Tag

Crumble the tissue paper and then ink it. I used three different kinds of tissue paper and brown ink. I just wanted a little distressing. I used a piece of white card stock cut to 5 x 2 1/2 inches. Mod Podge the tissue pieces onto the white card stock.









While this was drying I took a part a silk flower and put the plastic stem through a silk daisy so that the stems are at the back. To hold this together I used the Clear Adhesive dots and glued them to the leaves and the leaves to the card.






I cut "joy" from Joys of the Seasons cartridge along with the shadow at 2 1/2. I used pop up dots to attach "joy" to the card. Here is a view from the side.






For the back of the card I cut two pieces of card stock one at 5 x 2 1/2 and the other at

5 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. My ribbon hanger is sandwiched between these two pieces.




Recipe: Paper: White Card stock, Tissue Paper, two coordinating card stock; Ink: brown; Misc: Mod Podge, Flowers, Ribbon, Pop up dots and Clear Adhesive dots.

Sled Tag

I used George for the shape of my sled, but you can use a square and round the top. The size of the square is 3x6 inches. I used a circle punch to cut the half circle out of the bottom of the sled. I then cut my sled into three parts; I cut the left and right sides to 1 inch. I used a scrap of card stock for the slats under neath the sled. The holly and the skate are cut from Joys of the Seasons and the mini tag is cut from Tags, Bags, Boxes, and More.

I inked the edges of the holly in green and the skate and mini tag in brown. The flower on the tag is punched from two different scraps of red and layered onto the tag.

Underneath the flower is the holly berry stem that I had a piece left over from another project. It was cut from the Joys of the Seasons Cartridge also. I used Rhinestones for the holly berries and for the flower center. I used pop up dots behind the holly berries and the one leaf and underneath the skate. The mini tag is strung with candle wicking thread and attached behind the skate and holly.

This is a really quick tag to put together and is baby bug compatible. Click here for the cut file.

Recipe: Paper: Card stock for sled, scraps of green, red, white, silver and black. Ink: green, brown; Cartridges: George, Joys of the Season, Tags, Bag, Boxes and More; Misc: Rhinestones, glue, pop up dots, candle wicking thread.

Pocket Tag

Cut card stock 2 1/4 x 12 inches, score at 4 inches and fold. I made faux stitching by poking holes along the sides and drawing a line with a black marker. The flower and leaves are left over from a previous project.

Paper Tole Tag

I downloaded Christmas Bella from Wendy's Digital Doodling. Wendy has instruction on downloading and printing out her Digital Stamps if you have never done this. I printed her out 4 times leaving room around one of the images as it was going to be my tag base. I colored this one and another one completely. The third image I colored everything but the bottom of her coat and down. The third image I only colored her muff. I then used pop up dots behind each layer and Glitter Ice Stickles on the to layers for her fur trim. So far she's my favorite tag.

Recipe: Color pencils: Light Blue, White, Yellow, Green, Pink, Peach, Red: Stickles: glitter Ice, Disgital stamp: Digital Doodling; Misc: pop up dots, glue, ribbon

Shaped Tag

Using the Christmas Cheer cartridge I cut the stocking on page 94 in red, shadow in maroon and the accents pieces in white glitter paper. I embossed the red stocking with the D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder. I scored the maroon about a 1/4 inch from the right side of the stocking. I used the white stocking top to trace the corners on the red and maroon stocking and cut of the handing tag, as I will replace mine with a piece of lace. I inked the white accents with antique distress ink.

From Accent Essential I cut the flower on page 57 using the Shadow Shift function. I cut two out of dark red, I only used one inked the edges in red. I cut from white the label on page 79 using the Shadow Shift feature and inked the edges in red.

From Joys of the Seasons I cut the Holly on page 69 at two different sizes out of green card stock. Each piece is inked. I used a whole holly cut on the top of the stocking and cut the second one apart and placed the pieces behind the flower. I cut off the left leaf and the bottom of the stem from the large holly cut and used it at the bottom of the label.

Click here for the cut file and is baby bug compatible.

Recipe: Paper: Scraps of white, red, dark red, maroon, green, white; Ink: Distress Ink- Antique, Color Box- Red, Green; Cricut Cartridges: Accent Essentials, Christmas Cheer Joys of the Season; Misc: glue, ribbon, lace, buttons

Circle Flower Tag

With my circle punch, I used 1 3/8", I punched 9 circles, you may have to punch more circles depending on the size of your punch. I used one for my base and 7 for the petals which were folded in a triangle shape, placed side by side onto my base. You can press them down flat, roll them, fold them so that part of them stay up - which is what I did.





Fold the last circle in half , place at top of tag and punch. I ran my twine through first then attached the eyelet.





I used my Cricut to cut the red felt flower from Accent Essentials and traced the flower onto the white felt. I just could not get the white felt to cut. It was a looser weaver than the red so maybe that is why. I added a button and a ribbon bow to finish them off.





These tags come together pretty quick.

This one is from two sheets of Designer paper glued together, then I punched my circles.

Recipe: Paper: Double sided Designer paper or make your own.

Faux Silk Tag

I stamped on tissue paper in brown ink and colored in with watercolor pencils. I used Stickles on the white trim of Santa's suit and little starts. Using the George and the Basic Shapes Cartridge I cut the stars out at 1/2, 3/4, and 1 inches in yellow card stock. After gluing them on I stickled them.

Recipe: Paper: DCVW -The Christmas Cardstock Matstack, The Holiday Collection, scrap of yellow card stock, white cardstock, tissue paper; Ink: brown; Stamp: Water Color Pencils: Black 715, Gray 760, Carmine 716, Medium Brown, White 709, Light Brown, Gold 3,Yellow 713, Brown, Red 705,Bright Yellow, Brown 704, Peach,: Stickles: Crystal Ice, Gold Misc: glue, eyelet, ribbon