Hello Crafty Friends! Welcome to the first day of inspiration hops for the September Essentials by Ellen release! This month brings some fun new accessories (and pals!) for the adorable All Inside bear, with the Bear Ware 2 stamps and coordinating Bear Ware 2 dies!
Another one of my favorite additions this month are the Concertina Tags:
So I combined all of these elements to create this fun tag card:
The Concertina Tags each have different decorative bottom edges and are hinged together but you can easily trim them apart, to make die cutting multiple tags super quick and easy! For the base of my tag card, I die cut through two layers of Neenah 80 lb. Solar White cardstock with the tags die, leaving the top edge uncut and "hinged". This creates a card base 6-3/8" wide x 3-1/4" tall that will fit in a #10 business envelope:
Next, I die cut a single layer of Solar White cardstock Concertina Tags, cut them apart, then used the following Distress Oxide Inks to sponge color onto the white tags, in an ombre effect:
When the card is closed, the hinged tags can be Z or accordion-folded:
I had fun dressing up the All Inside bear on the green tag with a stocking cap custom dotted with a wide black Copic Multiliner, and cute tiny potted Christmas tree! The red tag's bear received a custom dotted green ombre scarf and candy cane (Copic marker colors used are listed below in the supply section). The sponged tags were stamped with Versamark and white snowflakes (from Bear Ware 2). To keep my dotted theme going, the bare winter tree was stamped onto Solar White cardstock and also custom dotted with black Multiliner. Several elements (hat, trees, candy cane and bear noses & eyes) were shimmered with Clear Wink of Stella marker.
BLOG HOP:
Next on the hop is my very talented fellow Ellen Hutson designer, Laurel Beard. If you get lost along the hop, you can find the full list of participants at the Ellen Hutson blog, the CLASSroom.
Thanks so much for joining us today!
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