Bags & Tags *Pink Paislee*

Popping in to share my very first project over on the Pink Paislee blog this week.  I was so excited, and equally as nervous to share these.  I am still pinching myself that I am really on the team of my dreams.  So happy to be sharing the experience with all of you!

Tags, ephemera and layers, a perfect combination for embellishing any project.  You will often find each of these elements on my layouts, and pocket pages.  Today I want to take them off the page, and show you how easy it is to create gorgeous little tags for use as gift bag accents.

I love the mix of chucky and flat combined together. Pairing up that cute little polka dot frame, with a few strips from the 6x6 paper pad, and a few pieces of ephemera from the Bella Rouge collection is a quick and easy way to create a little beauty out of a plain old shipping tag.

Finish it off with a fabric flower and a few enamel dots, and you've got a sweet tag ready for that next unexpected gift.

Sometimes chunky looks even better with more chunky.  In this case, the sequin butterfly adds just the right amount of softness to the bulky layers of the fun and colourful chipboard pieces.

And here they are all prepped and ready for the next gift I have to give away.  It's like 2 gifts in one really, and who wouldn't be happy with that?

Thanks for popping by today friends!

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A love for tags

Hooray for Friday!

I participated in a challenge to close out this week.  Cristal over at Scaptastic Kit Club offered up a challenge this month to use 2 tags on a project. If you know anything about me and my preferred style of scrapping, you know that tags manage to find their way onto many of layouts.

This is a photo Isabelle took out in the forest behind our home. That girl can take some pretty great shots if you ask me.  I just had to scrap this beauty. 

 

I added one office supply tag, and one silhouette cut tag.  The office supply tag I played with quite a bit, by adding paint, mist, and masking.  The other I cut out of scrap paper, then offset and placed on a second piece of scrap cardstock.

The heart is cut from AC Pow paper, and the ampersand from vellum, both cuts  are from the Silhouette online store

That die cut paper is from Studio Calico

This inspiration for the title came from Isaiah 60:1 "Arise and shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you."  I think this may be the first layout I've ever completed that doesn't  boast a bit of patterned paper.

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Christmas Tags

I had a chance to do a little creating yesterday.  I made a few Christmas tags with Echo Park Christmastime papers.

I started a layout also, but now I am stuck.  The design just is coming together as I had planned.  I have to fit a lot of journaling on the page, and want to keep it hidden.  It'll come to me.  For now, it just sits there scoffing at me.  I think part of the problem also is that I'm a little preoccupied in my mind.  There's a lot to accomplish in the next few days and only me to get it done.  Plus there are so few hours of sunshine during this time of year, that simply taking photos of projects can be a challenge.  You must complete the project on one day, and wait until the next day to photograph it.  Well at least, that's how I must do it, because projects take me so long.  Alas, it's called life right?!  Sometimes things chug alone smoothly, and other times you fight just to keep your head above water.  It helps to take time to connect with my maker, asking Him to reveal His will to me.  Asking him to take off my plate those things that are not important, or can be done at another time, or by another individual.  I thank God for his his willingness to be an active participant in my life.

Hope you're in the middle of a  fulfilling week friends, whether or treading water, or putting on the life vest to help you stay afloat.  May you see God at work around you, and know that what you are doing matters.


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