Oh Christmas Tree Gift Tags

I recently treated myself to some new die cut punches in a Christmas theme like these lovely forest version Christmas trees.  They are a perfect embellishment for these lovely craft tags that I found.

Buttons and Crimbo Crackers

This week I came across a new challenge site that I knew I'd love as soon as I saw the name - Crimbo Crackers - utterly brilliant.  To make things even better the themed challenges aren't just for cards, which is more up my alley, and the first challenge I'm seeing is of interest to me.  Buttons, hooray, I love buttons.  Although they make ideal embellishments in card making, I've yet to do that more than once but I have played with lots of things incorporating buttons and Christmas.

Upcycling Christmas Gift Tags

Getting back into the crafting groove, and trying more than anything to have a clear out of craft supplies, I've upcycled some festive gift tags for Christmas.  I found some super cute gift tags at the dollar store last season and thought that they would make wonderful embellishments.  Originally a mini-card with a little envelope, I've cut the backs off and adhered the bright graphic images to a 2" scalloped square which I've die cut in matching colours.

Candy Christmas Challenge at Sparkles

The Sparkles Christmas Challenge is a multi-craft challenge blog, which is great for me as I so rarely seem to find the time to get to the Christmas card and gift tag ideas rolling around in my mind. Primarily, it's a space thing, as I work my way through the shiny beads.

Non-Traditional Christmas Card Colours

Who says Christmas cards need to be in traditional colours?  Not me, that's for sure!  I love everything bright and shiny at Christmas time.  This snowman card is a but of fun in bright pink.  It's an upcycled card - the snowman in the center from original small cards, and matched here with co-ordinating pink Christmas papers, die cut snowflakes and pink gems.

Colour Your Own Gift Tags

This is a fun little gift tag idea I'm experimenting with this year - colour your own gift tags.  I would have loved these at age 5, and I still love them into my 50s!  The stickers are a black velvet, so the raised surfaces make it easy for the little ones to have a go, and also prevent bleading of inks so you can get a really nice result.

From the Kitchen of ... Gift Tags

This weeks theme on the Weekly Christmas Card Challenges blog site is Think Tags.  You can use tag decorations on your Christmas card designs, or you can make tags for gifts.  It seemed like the perfect time to jump back in with these gift tags intended for home baking type gifts.

Christmas Card Challenges - Anything Goes

It's anything goes week at the Christmas Card Challenges blog, so I really have to play along, don't I?  This is a bright rendition of a simple design for a festive Christmas card.  Neon bright might not be everyone's cup of tea but I love it.  Believe it or not, these are my kitchen colours - bright lime green and neon pink. For a Christmas card, if you think about it, it's just a slight slide on the hue spectrum from traditional Christmas red and green.  With a little bling on top for good measure.

Christmas Card Challenge - Ho, Ho, Ho

One of the things that I am challenging myself to do with my new Christmas focused online entities is to participate, with some frequency, in some online crafting challenges.  For some time I have followed several Christmas Card Challenges just because I love to see the creativity of the contributors.  Some of their card creations are nothing short of works of art.