Wooden Chick Tags

Happy Easter everyone!!! 

Hope you have a fun-filled weekend planned with lots of CANDY and LOVE and LAUGHTER! 

This year we bought some See's Candies thru my son's school and I love the pretty Easter paper, but it was just lacking a little something!   So I turned to my supplies for a little help. 

I had so much fun making these wooden tags. 

Here is a picture tutorial on how I achieved it. 

Supplies: 

Memento Ink: Rich Cocoa

Wooden Tags 

Stamps: Bunny and Chicks Circles

I bought the wooden tags from Michaels, during Christmas, not sure if they still have them, but there are lots of other companies that make them too.   I took the black round sticker off and lightly sanded it, to give it a smoother surface.   Then I stamped the image using the Memento ink and I held it in place for about 15 seconds, that way the wood would soak up the ink. 

Then I colored them using Prismacolor pencils.   I only used three colors and not a lot of pressure was needed when applying color.  Just remember to color with the grain of the wood first and then go back and fill in the gaps, once the first layer has been applied. 

Here is a close up of one of the tags.

 Happy Easter and thank you for stopping by today! 

Hugs. 

Sweet Christmas Poinsettia Tags with Leah Tees

I have created some sweet Christmas tags using poinsettia stamp images and antique leaf scroll border stamp from Sweet Stamps LLC :)

I have used the following rubber stamp images from Sweet Stamps LLC:

Antique Leaf Scroll Border H5003
Poinsettia Garland 7071
Simple Poinsettia 7068
Poinsettia and Holly Leaf 7073

You can all of these rubber stamps at the Sweet Stamps online store, and come and join us for the two monthly challenges over at the Sweet Stamps challenge blog!

Not a Card

Donna K with you today sharing a few projects for the
latest challenge.

The theme is Anything but a Card and you have all week to play along. 
Here are a few of my favorite projects that fall into this category.

Have a beautiful day gift tag.

Vintage look recycled gift card holder.

and a darling little just because pillow box.

Thanks for stopping by today!

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Enjoy

Happy Tuesday!
Donna K here with you today sharing my
Anything BUT a card project.
Tags are so fun and easy for the most part.
They can be elaborate or super simple.

My tag was quite easy once I figured out what theme to go with.

I mainly wanted to incorporate those pretty birds from the 

Birds & Cages piccolo set.

I like the vintage vibe using the distressed ink

along with the Tulip Lattice stencil with lavender acrylic paint.

Be sure to join us this week as we challenge you to create

"Anything BUT a card."

Have a happy Tuesday!

SUPPLIES:

Enjoy the Moment	Creative Corners Set #11	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad	Distress Ink Pad VINTAGE PHOTO	Snow Pearls
Stitched Rectrangle Layers Dies	1/4" Scor-Tape	Birds & Cages Accents

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Silly Girl

Silly girl there's no such thing as too much wine!

This sentiment makes for a fun bottle tag.

I used a standard shipping tag and distressed the edges first.

Then I stamped the wine glass and bottle images in different colors.

Attached some sequins and shimmer and a pretty ribbon.

My vision was for a festive design.

Hopefully I got my point across.  

My tag also fits in with this week's challenge.

*Anything but a Card* and I certainly hope you will share your projects with us!

Cheers!

~Donna K

Supplies included in this design:

Wine! Clear Stamp Set	Aegean Ink Spot	Buttercup Shades� Dye Ink	In The Pink Ink Spot	Papaya Ink Spot
Tidal Wave Ink Spot	Glastique Gloss Finishing Glaze	Distress Ink Pad ANTIQUE LINEN	Distress Ink Pad VINTAGE PHOTO	Wink of Stella Brush Marker
Stitched Rectrangle Layers Dies

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Enjoy Your Day

Just a bit more time to join the 
Anything Goes challenge!!

For this weeks challenge I created a sweet tag.

Heat embossed with Siam Silver.

Notice the sparkles?! 

There are two challenges going on right now....

There's the weekly one:   Anything Goes

and the monthly Technique Challenge : Double Side Step Card

We'd love it if you joined them both!

Have a beautiful Sunday!

~Donna K / Created by Donna K

Enjoy Your Day

Good morning sweeties-

This week at SweetStamps, we have an ANYTHING GOES, challenge going. 

Did you have a chance to see the new ArtsyFartsy Stamps too!!  Oh they are hilariously a must see.  Check them out HERE

I made a bottle tag for my Anything Goes project this week. 

I used the I'm a Winer Clear Stamp set.  Are you a winer?!?!  I know I am, well not at the moment, but I do love my Moscato, Riesling, Sparkling and Cabernet wines. :) I'm still nursing, so I have not had any in a very long time.  yummmmmmm

The sentiment down at the bottom is from Simple Greetings Clear Stamps the last release we had in May. 

Here is a close up of the image.  You can see I added glossy accent to the bottle and glass.  

There is also small Rose pearls around the frame/  I just love adding small details like that and the pearl pens, make it easy to do. 

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Next week's challenge #179 is:

Christmas Tags
The monthly technique challenge is:
Parchment Craft
Details and Link-up can be found HERE

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Hugs,

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Tag Challenge Winner

The winner of SweetStamps.com's Challenge #140 Tags is...

Valerie W

Congratulations!

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree at shop.SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a NEW technique challenge every month, along with a weekly challenge each Tuesday!

Happy stamping!

Mums Bouquet Tag ...

Good morning. Ruza here sharing the Tag I created to inspire you to play along with this weeks Sweet Stamps Challenge #140 ~ Tags. 

Last week I mentioned that I was saving the Corner from the beautiful Mum Bouquet & Corner Duo (1006). Today's Tag features the beautiful Mum Bouquet Corner which I stamped at the top of the tag and then around the edges with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Each image was colored with my Copic Markers, then I used a dauber to apply three different Distress Inks, and distressed the edges. The final step was to add my ribbon.

While you are here scroll down for all of the details about this weeks Challenge #140, and then share your project for a chance to win a $20.00 Shopping Spree to Sweet Stamps Online Store.

I'll see you next week, same time, same place.

Until then ... Enjoy!

Ruza

Tag - Guest Designer Penny Ward

Hello friends and welcome to the Sweet Stamps blog.

Penny Ward here again this week as a Guest Designer.

This was an interesting project for me, as I knew when I selected this stamp to work with, I had just received a very large Mason Jar full of buttons from my friend Cathy. (How cool is that?)

This stamp is so adorable whether you color it or embellish it.

Let's Make a Tag...or two

I started with white card stock measuring 5 x 3 inches, and cut into a tag shape.

I stamped and heat embossed the Patch Corner Large stamp two times on the tag. Colored them, then stamped the sentiment with Staggered Thinking of You. Inked the edges and added buttons and sequins.

Hole punch the top and add ribbon.

On the Yellow tag....really messed that sentiment up, so it now has a banner with the word "Thinking".

I love how you can embellish most mistakes.

On the Blue tag, I masked the sentiment stamp so the letter "O" was missing. In it's place I have used a small button. :)

This would be the perfect stamp for someone who sews, or to match it up with a teddy bear stamp...so many possibilities

Thank you so much for swinging by today. Please join us here again as the designers have so much in store for your viewing pleasure.

Hugs,

Penny

Let's go Shopping:

White card stock

Stamps: Patch Corner Large, Staggered Thinking of You (Sweet Stamps)

Inks: Memento Dandelion & Nautical Blue, Tuxedo Black (Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko)

Clear Embossing Powder 

Spectrum Noir Markers

Scor-Bug

Hole Punch

Buttons

Ribbon

Challenge #140 Tags

Hello crafty friends. You may have noticed a new DT Sweetie in last week's challenge - please join us in welcoming Donna K. to our Design Team. Here's a little about Donna:

Hello, I'm Donna K.
I am a Michigan born girl who now calls Eastern, North Carolina home. I am the wife of a retired Marine and the mom of three adult children and one spicy Yorkie.  I love all things "paper & ink".  I acquired a love for stamping and creating cards about 5 years ago. I enjoy all styles and look forward to trying new techniques/challenges. I'm very excited about being part of the Sweet Stamps DT and look forward to my journey as a Sweetie. 

Welcome to the team Donna! We are super excited to have you join us!

Since it's Tuesday, it's time for a NEW weekly challenge here at SweetStamps.com. This week's theme is...

Tags

Our very talented DT Sweeties have created these tags to share with you:

Annette Andersson

*Calypso Bastian*

Carolyn LaBille

DeNetra Bates

Donna K

Erika Selander

Irena Kowalczyk

Irit Shalom

*Kendra Sand*

Lisa Lahiff

Roxie Glaza

*Shelly Schmidt*

We'd love to see your tag, so come and join the fun! You could win a $20 shopping spree for goodies at SweetStamps.com's online store by playing along in our challenge! Click here for our complete Challenge Rules.

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Our Monthly Technique Challenge Center Step Card runs run through November 14th. Check out all the monthly challenges here.

Don't forget to check back later this week for more inspiration from our monthly Guest Designers! 

Next week our theme is FRAMES. Happy Stamping! Have a super sweet week!