ALL WRAPPED UP + TAG IT: CHRISTMAS

feat. All Wrapped Up Stamp Set/ Essentials Arches Dies / Farmhouse Tags Dies/ Tag It: Christmas Stamp Set/ Essential Snowflakes Dies

These sweet li’l buddies are helping each other get prepped for the holidays . . . I love loVE LOVE when a darling image takes up enough presence on a card that I don’t have to ponder or agonize about how to combine and layout a card design—All Wrapped Up is the answer to that wish, at least for me, anyhoo!

Ya’ know, those Essential Arches dies are actually PERFECT for making tall snow-globe windows for shakers and/or card fronts—this is a simple window card (clear plastic is sandwiched between the car front and an additional die cut panel so you can peek through). The sentiment beneath is revealed when you open up the card . . . It’s just so sweet, I can’t even . . .

A word to the wise, tho—do all your white paint spattering BEFORE doing anything else; it needs a little time to air-dry before you start die cutting into it and assembling all your pieces. Ask me how I know . . . (chortle). However, if you’re in a hurry, take a clean paper towel and press it down carefully over top to soak up any excess paint droplets.

My paint spatter method:

1. Squeeze a little white acrylic paint onto an acrylic block. It doesn’t take all that much so don’t get crazy.

2. Squeeze a little water at a time from your waterbrush into the paint and mix it right on the block until you have a consistency you like.

3. Hold the acrylic block over the area you want to spatter and use your paint brush to flick it off the block down onto project. Repeat until you have all the spatter you want, then set it aside to dry.

All Wrapped UP also works lovely for tags—GAAAH!!! All the heart eyes! If you love to layer your tags, that skinny one, combined with the sentiments in the Tag It Set are perfect for doing that—anything that makes mass production easier gets 5-stars from me because I’m always last-minute Lucy at getting things wrapped so I tend to keep tags pretty minimalist. (face palm)

Do you like making tags? My daughter is not a card maker, but she does enjoy making tags for holiday gifts.

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SUPPLIES:

• All Wrapped Up by Julie Ebersole, Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps

• Tag It - Christmas, Essentials by Ellen Clear Stamps

• Essential Arches, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies

• Snowflakes, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies

• Farmhouse Tags, Essentials by Ellen Designer Dies

• VersaFine Clair Ink Pad, Nocturne

• 36 Color Set, Gansai Tambi

• 48 Color Set, Gansai Tambi

• 12 Color Set, Gansai Tambi

• Small Fine Point (23638), Pentel Arts Aquash Water Brush

• Ebony Black 100 lb - 25pk, Essentials By Ellen Cardstock

• Crystal Clear Plastic, Medium Weight 8 1/2' x 11' (10 pk), Essentials by Ellen

• Desert Storm - 25 pk, Neenah Environment Cardstock

• Watercolor Paper Pad 9x12, Canson XL

• Ranger Watercolor Paper, 10 pk

• Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock, Wax Lips, 25 pk

• Baker's Twine Twisted Ribbon - Red, May Arts

• Ranger Stickles, Silver

• VersaMark Ink Pad

• Embossing Magic Bag, Inkadinkado

• Stampendous Embossing Powder, Detail White, 0.76 oz.

• Dual Speed Heat Tool, WOW

• Crafter's Companion Gemini Junior

• Platinum 6 Die Cutting And Embossing Machine, Spellbinders Tools

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