Thanksgiving Tag Party

This is of course Thanksgiving week for Americans.  Always a nice time to get together, share a meal or two and in my house...make tags.  Each year, while the men watch football, the rest of us make tags for Christmas packages and neighbor gifts.  For obvious reasons, my house is always a good one to host this kind of party since I have all the supplies one would need.  We keep it simple with inks and rubber stamps.  Although this year I introduced a few die cuts to the group...gotta love the antlers!

I photographed a few of the tags we made in case you wanted to have your own Tag party.  New stamps mixed with old, Distress and Archival ink, finished off with Trimmings...all good things for making great simple tags.
On another note, since a lot of Tims stamps come in small versions, we found that you could make a very similar tag using a #5 size (instead of the #8) which are great for smaller packages, jar labels, or on gift bags.

Note: I used Distress Ink - Frayed Burlap on all tag edges

Stampers Anonymous - Seasons Silhouettes

Archival Ink - Vermillion, Library Green

Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time

Mirrored Star

Alcohol Ink - meadow and gold

Stampers Anonymous - Seasonal Catalog 1

Archival Ink - Vermillion

Sizzix Trophy Antlers Bigz Die

Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time

Trimmings - Red and Cream

Chit Chat stickers - seasonal

Stampers Anonymous - Christmas Time and Deco Christmas

Archival ink - Sap Green (my favorite green for backgrounds!), Black

Trimmings - red and cream

Stampers Anonymous - Seasonal Catalog 1

Archival Ink - Vermillion

Sizzix Trophy Antlers Bigz Die

Remnant Rubs - Christmas Time

Vial Labels

Trimmings - Red and Cream

Stampers Anonymous - Winter Sketchbook and Seasons Silhouettes

Archival Ink - Olive, Library Green, Vermillion

Distress ink - Frayed Burlap (background stamp)

Mirrored stars

Crinkle Ribbon

Distress Stain - Barn Door and Vintage Photo

This is the one picture I took that night of my best friend's daughters that were home for the holiday.  Becca tried Distress Markers for the first time and fell in love.  Rachel went the more traditional route and stuck with stamping.  Either way we all had a great time and we now have finished tags for wrapping presents. 

Happy Holidays...now carry on,
paula

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