The Crafty Den: Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop

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 'Halloween', which is great theme and with so many images to choose from such as ghosts, spiders, witches, or even cute trick or treaters, the world is your oyster! I can't wait to see what the rest of my fellow hoppers have made. I hope you can pop over to Instagram and join us.

I don't make many Halloween things as a rule but as I had bought a new stamp I would have been rude not to use it lol! I went for a bright lime green and black colour combo and I have to say I love how it turned out. I hope you like it too.

Here is my tag:

A closer look at the details:

I decorated the backs too:

I began by die cutting two tags from white card. I used a lime green ink pad to ink blend over the front of one of them and I went with a heavier hand around the edge for some contrast. I used my new background stamp and stamped it over the ink blending with black ink. I also added some black ink around the edge of the tag. I die cut a spider web from black card and adhered it to the top left corner of the tag with liquid glue. I die cut a ghost from white card 4 times and adhered them together with liquid glue; I added some black card behind his eyes and mouth also with liquid glue. I adhered the ghost to the tag with liquid glue. I stamped the sentiment onto black card with watermark ink and white heat embossed it before cutting it out with a sentiment strips die. I added that above the ghost with foam squares. For the back of this tag I found some lime green paper almost the same colour as my ink blending and adhered that with liquid glue. I had a little piece of the spider web die cut left over from the front so added that to the bottom right corner with liquid glue. I stamped a sentiment at the very bottom of the tag with black ink. For the second tag I kept it really simple; I added a piece of striped paper to the front of the tag and adhered another spider web in the right bottom corner with liquid glue and for the back of the tag I simply covered it with black card to continue the spooky vibe. I tied both the tags together with lime green spotty ribbon and then added some black twine which I tied into a bow for some extra decoration.

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

AAA Colourful challenge - colour board #20 (I used lime green & black)

Craft Rocket challenge - autumn/Halloween

Crafty Calendar challenge - Halloween

Creative Inspirations challenge - autumn/something spooky

Cut It Up challenge - use more than one die (tag, web, ghost, sentiment strip die)

Double D challenge - trick or treat, smell my feet

Heart's Quest for Shaped Cards & Tags challenge - ATG on a shaped card or tag

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - spooky fun

Little Red Wagon challenge - H is for holidays (I chose Halloween)

Stamping Sensations challenge - autumn

Tag-along (+ ATC's) challenge - anything autumn

The Four Seasons challenge - ATG fall optional mood board

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional cute or creepy

Tic Tac Toe challenge - top row across: die cut/twine/embossing

We Love Stamping challenge - anything autumn

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 #gorgeousgifttagsOct2025 and we will find your tags.

Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Lots of love