Happy Birthday Tag

 

One thing that I very rarely make is tags. I have all the wonderful ideas about making matching tag to go with a card but very rarely do I do it.

However Imagine That Digistamp is currently celebrating their 8th birthday and Kris is having some extra weekly birthday themed challenges to celebrate. If you take part you get a specially created set so it is definitely worth participating.

The prompt this week is to create a tag with a birthday theme. It was a so and so to photograph as it was either too bright and the light shone one the gold card, or not bright enough and you couldn't see the twinkle in the paint. I hate not being able to take photos in natural light but the days are very dull here at the moment.

This tag has been made using lots of offcuts that have been recycled from shop bought cards. The centre image is a very old rubber stamp from Penny Black called Spring Air. It has been stamped onto some scrap white card and coloured with Promarkers and H20's were added to the top for shimmer. This was coloured many years ago. I have a folder with lots of images that I coloured but they have not been made into anything so it is nice to get this little cutie out. The hedgehog is sniffing the air above his head. When I fussy cut around it it looked weird so I cut the air off and decided it would look cute with little butterflies instead.

The pink circles have been cut with some generic stitched circle dies from scraps of card that have been recycled from the inside of shop bought cards. Quite often there is an insert and the card has got some good quality coloured or even patterned cards that can be used for crafting. I sandwiched a scrap of gold ribbon between the pink and a circle of white card on the back of the tag.

The Happy Birthday die is from Spellbinders. I had already cut it out of some gold textured card in the past but not used it so added the red heart stickers, the stamped image and a couple of little butterfly stickers that are some of the most used stickers I have had in my collection. They are so small and in many colours so compliment a lot of colour schemes and projects.

Tag Details -

Size - 4”

Rubber Stamp Image - Spring Air 3346F (Penny Black)

Dies - Happy Birthday with numbers (Spellbinders) Circle Nesting Dies (unbranded from Ebay)

Colouring Medium - Promarkers & H20’s

Embellishments - Glittery butterfly stickers, heart peel off stickers, gold lurex ribbon

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #47 Anything Goes with a Critter
• 613 Avenue Create - #2 Anything Goes / Hearts
• A Bit More Time to Craft - #134 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #2 Anything Goes
• Always Fun Challenges - #201 Anything Goes
• Classic Design Challenge - #2 Anything Goes
• Colour Crazy Challenge - #6 Anything Goes
• Crafty Animals - #47 Anything Goes with an animal or insect
• Crafty Gals Corner - #216 Add a Heart
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious Challenges - #205 Anything Goes
• Creations in Pink - #31 Anything Goes in Mainly Pink
• Cuttlebug Mania - Tic Tac Toe (Ribbon, Watercolouring Twinkling H20's, Dies)
• Di’s Digi Designs - 1 or more hearts
• Dies R Us - #163 Anything Goes with a Store Die (Spellbinders)
• Double D Challenge - Anything with a heart
• Fab ’n’ Funky - #511 Birthday
• Gem of A Challenge - #4 Anything Goes
• Happy Little Stampers Die Challenge - Anything Goes with a die/diecut
• I Love Promarkers - #429 Anything Goes / Birthday
• Imagine That Digistamp 8th Birthday Celebrations - Create a Birthday Gift Tag
• Incy Wincy Designs - Animals
• Little Red Wagon - #589 Make A Tag
• Mix It Up Challenge - #Anything Goes
• Pearly Sparkles - #59 Anything Goes
• Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Penny Black Goes (rubber stamp)
• Penny’s Challenge - #490 Anything Goes
• QKR Stampede - #414 Anything Goes
• Scribbles Designs Challenge - #97 Add one or More Hearts
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Favourite Technique (Die Cutting)
• Simply Create Too - #167 Use Hearts
• Stamping Sensations - Colour My World
• Try It On Tuesday - Oh So Cute
• We Love Chocolate Baroque - Flowers, Butterflies or birds
• Word Art Wednesday - #479-480 Anything Goes