Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge and a BIG Black Friday Sale at Taylored Expressions!

 It’s Black Friday and it's time for the Baker's Dozen Studio Challenge and a BIG Black Friday Sale at Taylored Expressions!

We are releasing a brand new set of Stacklets today - Labels Stacklets 3 which coordinates with Frame It Up 1!!  For my project today, I created a set of tags using the Labels Stacklets 3, Frame It Up 1 and the Penguin Pals stamp set from Taylored Expressions along with the Make a Snowflake Die Set. 

The question for November is:
As crafters, we often talk about a hand-crafted Christmas. How much stamping do you do for the holidays? Do you mail hand-stamped cards, make gift packaging, tags, handmade gifts? Or do you stamp year-round, but not so much for Christmas? Please show us some handmade tags and share a tip or two on how to keep stamping fun for the holidays.

I stamp all year round, but at the holidays, I find that my time is much more limited so I don't stamp as much as I'd like.  Often times I'll package up cards I've made all year round and give them as gifts for Christmas.  I do love adding a handmade tag to those gifts.  I try to make them "not so elaborate" so there's more of a chance of me creating them!  :)  If there are too many steps, I won't make very many due to time constraints. 

First I'll decide on a stamp set (Penguin Pals) and any extras I'd like to add.  For these tags, I added snowflakes die cut from vellum using the Make a Snowflake Die Set.  Next I will die cut all my tag "pieces".  For this project, I used 2 dies in the Labels Stacklets 3 that matted the Frame It Up 1Die, which I used for the focal image.  In assembly fashion, I will color all of the images and then assemble the tags.  Like I said, the key for me is keeping it simple. . .I didn't do shading in the coloring and I kept the layers simple.  If I add too many details, the stress of getting them finished sets in and I don't enjoy making them.

I used papers from the Handmade Holiday Collection from Simple Stories for my tags.  I hope I've inspired you to take the stress out of creating during the holidays!!  Thanks for joining us this month for the Studio Challenge!

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