Winter birthday Gift Tag

Our Design Team theme this week is Winter Birthdays and for my non-card project, I’ve made a birthday tag. Although it’s a birthday project, I’m stretching my stash by using a Christmas stamp set and making a male-themed tag to boot.

To begin, I die-cut a large tag from an inky panel that I’d made using Distress Stain, Mica Stain and Distress Spritz sprays in various shades of blue. It’s hard to tell from the photo but this panel has lots of lovely shimmer.

After liberally dabbing the tag with an anti-static powder tool and using Christmas Eve stamp set, I stamped the row of trees, moon and stars with Versamark ink, added white embossing powder and heat set. I then repeated the process for the large tree in the foreground and the sentiment, which is from Birthday Wishes.

To make the ground different to the sky, I used a scrap of paper for a hill mask and blended white pigment ink below each mask, and below the tree line. I also added some white ink to the moon, blending it out a little to get a halo of light around the moon.

I thought that the tag needed a little bling so I added some gold embossing powder. The powder was simply sprinkled on in places and after carefully lifting up the tag, the powder was heated from below. This is because the powder isn’t stuck to any ink so if the heat tool is used from above, it would just blow all the powder off the tag before it got a chance to melt. I also dragged the edges of the tag in my Versamark ink pad, varying the pressure to get a grungy look, and then added gold embossing powder and heat set.

To finish the tag, I added a wide gold ribbon through the hole, tied at the base with some thin navy ribbon.

Products Used

Chritmas Eve Stamp Set

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