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

Cut It Up challenge - ATG

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - use your die cuts

Heart's Quest for shaped cards & tags challenge - ATG

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

Word Art Wednesday challenge - ATG

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)

Spellbinders - spring stencil backgrounds

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

Versamark ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing folder

coloured card & mirri card from scraps bin

Cards for All Seasons IG Hop - Week 2

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great week so far. I'm back today to share my card for this week's Cards for All Seasons IG hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. Week 2 is hosted by Melissa and she has chosen 'create tags'. A really fun and useful theme and I can't wait to see what sparks your imagination.

I really enjoyed this week's challenge as I don't tend to make many tags.  Also it took my mind away from all the chaos and mess in my house currently lol!.  I used lots of different brands of dies and stamps and went all out and made a shaker tag.  My photos are not the best again this week but with everything everywhere I couldn't find a bright spot to take them.  I hope you like it.

Here is my tag:

Plus I decorated the back of the tag:

A closer look at the front:

And a closer look at the back:

I began by die cutting two tags from white card and 1 tag from red card and die cut the word merry from one of the white tags.  I die cut some holly and leaves from various colours of green card, some berries from red card and a bow from red card.  I arranged the foliage at the top of the tag and adhered them with liquid glue.  I added the bow with tiny foam squares and placed a red pearl in the centre.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink and die cut it with a sentiment strip die.  I adhered some acetate behind the merry word with liquid glue and then added thin shaker foam strips.  I sprinkled some clear sequins and then stuck this to the red tag.  I added the sentiment at the bottom of the tag with foam tape.  For the back of the tag I add two more sprigs to the bottom with liquid glue and added 3 red pearls in the centre.  I stamped a to and from word in black ink and a small sentiment above the foliage.  I then adhered the tags together with liquid glue.  I found some pretty shimmer ribbon and threaded that through my tag and also found a tiny gold bell and attached that to some red and white bakers twine.  I tied the ribbon in a knot so it could be hung from a tree or a present.  Not really a tag that could be mass produced quickly but if you took away the shaker element I think it would be fun to make multiples of.  

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

The 12 months of Christmas Link Up challenge - ATG Christmas 

AAA Colourful challenge - mood board #10

ABC Christmas challenge - Y is for your favourite colours (red, green & gold)

Allsorts challenge - it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas 

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional twist happy holidays (any holiday)

Christmas Crafts All Year 'round challenge - bows, gifts or decorations

Christmas Kickstart challenge - if it's Christmassy, link it up

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist bells and baubles

Colourful Options challenge - red, green & gold (my bell is gold)

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - ATG optional twist make it merry

Cupcake Inspirations challenge - add a bow/ribbon

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - Christmas

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - Christmas

Hand Stamped Sentiment challenge - inspiration photo

Inspired By challenge - inspired by gifting (I was inspired by the colours and I made a gift tag)

Jingle Belles challenge - last minute Christmas makes

Little Red Wagon challenge - action (my tag is a shaker)

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

My Time To Craft challenge - anything but a card

Peace on Earth Christmas challenge - anything Christmas themed optional inspiration board

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - use dies in diecember

The Four Seasons challenge - anything goes winter optional inspiration board

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - Christmas

Word Power challenge - challenge #12 (make the sentiment the focus)

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; please use the hashtag #cardsforallseasonshop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.

I'll be back in the morning with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out. Until then thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs,

 

tag ingredients:

Creative Dies Plus - wonky stitches nesting tags - not available

MFT - stacked merry die - oos

MFT - winter wreath die (for bow) - retired

MFT - itty bitty holiday clear stamp - retired 

Spellbinders - stocking full of joy die set (for holly & berries) - retired 

Spellbinder - seasonal cupcake toppers die set (for leafy sprigs) - retired

Spellbinders - fashion poppy self adhesive embellishments

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - sketched wreath builder (for to & from)
Gina K Designs - Christmas Cheer clear stamp (for small sentiment on back)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently not available 

red card from stash

ribbon and bell from stash

clear sequins from Little Things from Lucy's Cards - store now closed