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Thursday, 5 June 2025

Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop June 25

Hello friends, I hope you're doing ok and that you've had a lovely day so far.  It's time for a new theme for the Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop, which takes place on the 5th of each month.  You always have the option to go for anything goes but the extra prompt this month is 'flowers', which is such a lovely and easy theme.  I expect the rest of the hop will be adorned with enough flowers to fill a garden lol!  I hope you can pop over to Instagram and join us.  
I love flowers and it's so easy to make a project that includes them.  I grabbed some coloured card from my scraps bin (still trying to use it up) and went to work.  I hope you like it.
Here is my tag:
A closer look the flowers:
Plus I decorated the other side of the tag:
I began by die cutting my tag from white card and using a stencil and some sea glass ink created a soft stencilled background.  I die cut the flowers from a teal coloured card and layered them up with foam squares adding a gold mirri card centre with liquid glue.  I also cut some leaves from the gold mirri card.  At this point I decided I wanted to mat my tag onto some of the teal card but I didn't have a larger tag so I simply trimmed down the white one every so slightly so that I had a thin border.  I adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment with versamark ink and embossed it with gold detail embossing powder.  I used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I arranged my flowers and leaves on the tag and adhered them with liquid glue.  The sentiment was added with a mix of foam tape and liquid glue and I finished with a few gold pearls.  For the other side of the tag I cut another white tag and heat embossed the To: and From with the gold embossing powder and added a few gold leaves to the top left and bottom right corners with liquid glue.  I adhered the tags together with liquid glue.  I added some white tulle ribbon (recycled from packaging) and tied it with some twine.  It's such a pretty tag in real life and will really jazz up a plain white gift bag.  

I would like to enter my tag into the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board
Cardz 4 Galz challenge - floral frenzy
Christmas (or not) BINGO challenge - Line B - tag, free, fibres (I used ribbon & twine)
Colorful Options challenge - inspiration photo
Craft Rocket challenge - no design paper
Fab 'n' Funky challenge - use your die cuts
Just Us Girls challenge - die cut week - layers
Stencil Fun challenge - ATG optional summertime fun
Tag-along (& ATC's) challenge - ATG with the option of drinks
The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist embossing heat and/or dry
Tic Tac Toe challenge - layers, free, floral/foliage
Triple B challenge - birds, blooms or butterflies optional inspiration photo
Unicorn challenge - not square

We hope you will be inspired by our Gorgeous Gift Tags Instagram Hop and will pop over and check out all the gorgeous tags along the way. If you would like to join us please visit my Instagram page or use the hashtag #gorgeousgifttagshop2025 and we will find your tags. 

Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Lots of love

card supplies:
Creative Dies Plus - wonky stitches nesting tags - ? retired
Spellbinders - I dance die set (for flowers and leaves)
Spellbinders - Santa's sippin' sayings stamp (for sentiment)
Gina K Designs - sketched wreath builder (for To:/From:)
Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad
MFT - skinny strips dies - oos ? retired
Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - not currently available - they do have 300gsm bright white card available here
coloured card & mirri card from scraps bin

13 comments:

Barb Finnical said...

Denise, this certainly is a gorgeous gift tag and it will look lovely on the IG Hop! I love all the attention to detail that you've invested in this, like the shading of the embossing and the little gold leaves on the back. You're right, it will look wonderful on a plain white bag. As guest designer over at Word Art Wednesday I just wanted to come over and say thanks for playing along with them. Your talents are appreciated!

Johanna said...

Personally I don't do tags very often, but I admire those that do. I think they are harder to make than a card. This one is so pretty. Love the flowers and that you have a back for writing on. Great Tag. Thanks for joining us at cardz4galz, Johanna DT

brenda said...

You have created a really beautiful Tag with the aqua coloured flowers, so nice to see you at Tag-Along (and ATC's) second challenge, thank you so much for joining us.

I can totally relate to what you say about flowers, I am the same, happy place and make creating so much easier.

B x

Diane said...

It's a gorgeous tag with the pretty florals!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Beautiful Blossoms, Colorful Options and Triple B!
Diane BB, CO DT and TB Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Beautiful Blossoms}

Diane said...

Me again, thanks so much for sharing your beautiful tag with us at Can You Handle The Pressure and Stencil Fun!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure!
Diane CYHTP Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
{Can You Handle The Pressure}

Becca S said...

Thanks so much for sharing this terrific tag, Denise, with HQFSCAT!! You've packed a lot of textures, layers and details into the tag! Very impressive and it will make a huge impression to the recipient! -- Becca

Ina G said...

Loving your beautiful layered tag Denise. Such a soft background for those gorgeous coloured flowers and gold tones. Thanks for sharing with us at Jugs this week.

Vicki Dutcher said...

Way to go entering this into challenges! Love the layers on this fun tag. Thanks for joining in at JUGS.

Donna Walls said...

Gorgeous Tag design, I love the flowers and the color. Thanks for sharing your lovely card with us at The Beautiful Blossoms Challenge.
Donna xx
Beautiful Blossoms Challenges
Paper Funday Challenges
Inspiration Station Challenges

Just Peachy Stamping said...

What an absolutely stunning tag! At first I thought the tag was quilted, but it turned out to be your stenciling. This tag by itself would be a gorgeous gift. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Cardz 4 Galz. I hope to see you in the gallery for our next challenge. Sue - DT

Donna Walls said...

I'm popping back in to say Thanks for playing along at The Paper Funday Challenge too!
Donna xx

Heather said...

Such a gorgeous tag!! I love your colors and the dimension on all those beautiful layered flowers! Thanks for playing with Cut It Up Challenge.

Rosanne Mulhern said...

Tags are a favorite of mine and yours is beautiful! Hope you have a special recipient in mind for this beauty! Thanks for sharing at the TTTC