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Sunday, 5 April 2026

Gorgeous Gift Tags IG Hop - April 26

Hello and welcome lovely friends. I hope you're all having a wonderful Easter Sunday and if you don't celebrate I hope you're enjoying your day.  The Easter bunny was generous to us again this year and we have a nice selection of chocolate to munch over the coming days lol!  

It's time 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' and I know this is going to be a popular theme. 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 always like to play along with the optional prompt and this month I created a fun shaker tag using products from lots of different companies but especially Waffle Flower Crafts.  I wanted to try making a  completely transparent tag with no background, so that you could see all the way through, as I've never made one before.  I turned out super cute and exactly what I had in mind.  I hope you like it.
Here is my tag:
A closer look at the flowers:
Plus I decorated the back:
I began by die cutting two tags from white card, I adhered them together with low tack tape and then die cut a rectangle from the centre of them both to create my shaker window.  I added acetate to both tags and also shaker strips foam adhesive around the border of one of the windows.  I filled the window with a rainbow mix of sequins and then adhered both the tags together to enclose the sequins.  I stamped the flowers, coloured them with Promarkers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I also die cut 2 more layers from plain white card so that I could stack them.  I added the larger floral spray in the bottom left corner with double sided tape and filled it out by placing one of the single flowers over the edge of it.  I placed another single flower in the top right corner.  I stamped and cut out a teeny sentiment and placed it over the larger floral arrangement.  I added some pink tulle ribbon through the tag and then tied a bow using a thin purple ribbon around this.  For the back of the tag I added another small flower in the bottom right corner and a second teeny sentiment on top of this with double sided tape. 

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

Allsorts challenge - it's springtime
Cardz 4 Galz challenge - spring flowers
Daisy Chain challenge - no design paper
I Love Promarkers challenge - cute & whimsical or ATG
Stamping Sensations challenge - inspired by nature
Sweet Stampin' challenge - spring or Easter
Tag-along (& ATC's) challenge - blossoms, birds and/or butterflies
The Four Seasons challenge - anything spring optional mood board
The Dream Factory challenge - sweet little things
Triple B challenge - birds, blooms or butterflies optional mood board

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 #gorgeousgifttagsapril2026 and we will find your tags.
Thanks for stopping by and take care.

Lots of love,

tag supplies:
Waffle Flower - nesting tag dies
Waffle Flower - a little note stamp & die set
Promarkers
Spellbinders - essential rectangles dies (to cut the window)
Mama Elephant - big new stamp (for teeny sentiments)
Limetree Craft 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)
Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad
Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed
Little Things From Lucy's Cards - kaleidoscope sequins - store now closed
acetate, ribbon and tulle from my stash

14 comments:

Liz said...

Beautiful tag, what a great idea to make a ‘see-through’ shaker design. Thank you for joining in the Crafty Calendar Challenge this month.
Liz xx

Becca S said...

Hello, Denise!!! (1) Thanks so much for sharing your gorgeous shaker shaped gift tag with HQCOLCB during our April challenge session! Fabulous! Lovely! (2) Did you see the brags section of the post? Do you want to be a GDT for shaped tags for May? Let me know if you want the invite honor.

brenda said...

What a unique idea Denise, it's fun with the shaker element but with pretty Spring blooms. Many thanks for joining in at MAWTT, Tag-~Along (and ATC's), Allsorts and Stamping Sensation, fits the brief at all.

B x

Linby said...

It's so beautiful and not something I have seen done before. Thanks for the inspiration, I want to make one now! Thanks also for sharing it with us at Tag-along (and ATCs) challenge.

Darlene said...

OH WOW how creative and simply beautiful!! Well done! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons & Triple B challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Four Seasons Co-Owner
Triple B Co-Owner

Gail L said...

Wow! Lovely tag!
Thank you for joining us at Allsorts!

crafty-stamper said...

Fabulous see through shaker tag, love the beautiful Spring flowers. Thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
Carol DT x

Sarn said...

WOW - that's a fantastic tag. Unique and stunning. xxx

EmmaT said...

Beautiful shaker tag. Thank you for joining us at We Love Stamping this month

Cynthia said...

Beautiful shaker tag, Denise! Thank you for the inspiration.

Dawn Phillips said...

It's such a nice thing to have a different idea for our challenge. We don't get many tags and yours is a gorgeous take on our theme. Thanks for joining us at Cardz4galz. Love Dawn x

Lynda said...

Love that see-through tag - great idea - and a shaker element too - gorgeous. Thank you for joining us at Cardz 4 Galz xx Lynda/Loopyloo DT

Mrs.B said...

That's a fabulous design with the shaker element and I love the framing with the pretty flowers.
Thanks for sharing at Stamping Sensations. Avril

Rosmarie said...

I really love your beautiful little gift tag and its soft colors! Great idea to turn it into a shaker! Thank you so much for playing along with Dream Factory. Rosi x
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