The holidays are fast approaching and a project that is simple, pretty, and handmade always makes me smile.
Welcome to a Handmade Christmas Hop with Rita Barakat! Today we have several fabulous designers here to help get those creative ideas going!
Do you need a gift idea, wrapping idea, holiday card or decorating item? Let’s make it handmade! Oh and let’s help you with that. One lucky winner will receive a $40.00 gift certificate to Amazon! Who couldn’t use a little cash these days?
Details at the bottom of the post!
Super Simple Stamped Holiday Tags
When Rita asked if I’d create something for her Handmade Christmas Hop, I knew I wanted to create something using her swirly Cowboy Boot Art Foamie stamp! I love that I can use my paints with the Art Foamie stamps. Even better is when I use paints with my Gel Press plate.
Paint & Stamp
I selected only a few colors of DecoArt Media Fluid acrylics to use for this project to keep it simple and I chose fluid paints because they dry quickly and they won’t get so thick as to get in all the swirly grooves of the stamp.
Reds and greens and kraft paper for holiday gift wrapping are some of my favorite holiday colors, so I stuck with those colors for my tags too! The blues and greens with just a pop of white and silver blended to create one set of boots. I then used reds and gold for another set of boots.
Scan N Cut
I DO NOT like fussy cutting by hand. Not in a car…not in a train…not on a scrapbook cruise…not at all. Some people enjoy that. I am not one of those. So I LOVE my Brother Scan N Cut that allows me to stamp or draw an image and then scan and cut it. Boom! Done!
However, before scanning, I did take a pen and outline any little edges that did not ‘print’ clear and sharp when I stamped the image as well as any open areas of the stamp that the Scan n Cut might read like an open design since I only wanted the outline image cut.
I left a 0.04 margin and look how nice that worked! The bonus was that all my boots were cut out in less than 6 minutes for 2 pages of boots including load time.
After scanning one of the stamped boots, I made a shadow image and filled the page and cut some shadows for my boots to give a little more oomph to my holiday tags. I saved this to my machine for later use too, because I’m sure I’ll use this again and I’ll need more tags of course.
Finish and Tag a gift
The last step was adding a little adhesive to the back of my stamped boot and adhering it to the shadow boot.
And that is it! You could definitely add more bling or trim to dress these up, but I loved the simplicity and the sense of accomplishment in whipping up a super simple handmade project.
If you are looking for more Handmade Holiday projects, I have a few of my favorites that I’ve dug out of the archives:
Here are the details for a chance to win $40 Amazon gift certificate:
- subscribe to the Rita Barakat newsletter – ( if you already do say so in the comments below)
- Leave comments on all the fabulous posts on the hop below (including this one here 🙂 )
- Follow Rita Barakat Art on Instagram
- Rita Barakat
- Martha Lucia Gomez
- Yolie Burke
- Margie Higuchi
- Cheryl Boglioli *** that’s me and you are here – comment below
- Hannah Rubenstahl
- Liza Sivek
To find out if you won you tune into Rita Barakat on Facebook on Monday at 8 pm CST for Mixed Media Monday, Nov 25th.
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Nothing as fun as to receive a homemade tag to remember the maker by thruout the year.
These are awesome! I LOVE the boots! Sooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheryl, I love those cow girl boots and the project your created. Really awesome!! Yes, I do subscribe to Rita’s newsletter!!
These are so cute!! They would make great gift tags too.
Awesome set of holiday tags! I love the design and the color combos! Fun project!
Thank you, Denise. It was fun creating something quick and simple for a change. 😉 Thanks for joining our hop.
Great tags! And you make me want a scan n cut. Lol! Thanks for sharing!
I have had a few electronic cutters and I do love my ScanNCut! They just keep getting better. Thanks for joining our hop and stopping by here. Hope to see you again.
This is just darling!!
Thank you, Jean! And thanks for hopping by! 😉
Your cowgirl boots are so cute!!!!! I always think of Rita when I see cowboy/cowgirl boots. These are adorable.
Thank you. It is one adorable boot. I love the swirls! Thanks for hopping by <3
Love these awesome and fun gift tags! My kids both live in Texas so these would be so much fun to give to them both!
How perfect would that be? It really was simple to make so I’d love to hear if you give it a try. Thanks for joining our hop!
Love Cheryl’s gift tags!! I just got a scan and cut and can’t wait to try it!
Woohoo! You will love your Scan N Cut. I know you have some stamps that would work for this technique as well! Let me know if you make some too
How cute! I love the boots! And I totally love that you didn’t have to fussy cut those!!😁 I need to get my gel plate out again and play.
Oh you definitely should get that gel plate out. 🙂 Did I mention I hate fussy cutting? Thanks so much Becky for stopping by and leaving a comment.
What a fun way to create a signature tag for all your gifts!!
Why thank you, Amy! I’m looking at some of my other stamps to see what others would make great tags this year. Thanks for stopping by.