Christmas Tag Gifts...

You know how good it feels when you can recycle things from your
hoarded stash?  SCORE!! After a flurry of card making, I always have a pile of leftovers I refer to as my OMD [Off My Desk] stash.  Love to challenge myself to make things only from OMD!

PROCESS INVENTORY

IMAGES: 

• Image on the front red band is a rubber stamp that I used in a Christmas card design several years ago.  First stamped with black ink and heat embossed with clear EP - I then used a bleach technique to strategically remove the red where I would want another color inside the embossed lines.  Using colored pens I then added back in the colors of green, brown & pink.  I had maybe 6 or 7 of these red bands tucked away for "someday".  Amazingly, they perfectly covered the See's Candy logo - see source of the envelopes below under paper.
• Inside I tucked in 6 tags that were made with four different punches. [A circle, snowflake, star and a fern leaf that I made into a tree.]  Each punch is backed up with glitter paper to make them all shiny.
• Sentiment is a rubber stamp from ???

PAPER:  

• The shiny gold envelopes are from a stack of about 50 gift certificate envelopes from See's Candy that were being discarded - {WHAT?? Throw those out?  Surely I can find a use for those!}
• Colored CS pieces are OMD left over from previous Christmas cards.
• Glitter paper was one lonely piece of paper found in stash.
• Base CS for tag and for the sentiment are Ivory Recollections.

EMBELLISHMENTS: 

• SU Tag Top punch used to shape the base by cutting the end of a 2 inch wide strip of CS to create the tags.
• Gold cording used for the hangers.
• Ribbon or bling used on each punch to help them look like ornaments.

INKS:

• Black Onyx Versamark used for the sentiment.

This card should be eligible for the following 

CHALLENGES:

That Craft Place – Christmas

Aurora Wings #20 – AT but a Card

Through the Craft Room Door – ATG Always

Crafting from the Heart #90 – ATG Always

Clear It Out – ATG / Stash: ATG

Inspiration Destination #64 – ATG

Crafty Ribbons #140 – Countdown to Christmas w/ ribbon

Art by MiRan Challenge #47 – ATG

As You Like It / Your Favorite... “Favorite Christmas Colors & Why?” [I like the warmth of Ivory combined with any other color... it warms up the look - makes it more vintage.}  TOP THREE

TTuesday Throwdown #274 – ATG

Paper Shelter – #231 – ATG

Pile it On #98 – Christmas/ Winter

OSAAT #252 – ATG w/ Red

Fussy & Fancy  #154 –Happy Holidays

Create wildly and color with abandon!  ~ginny