Tag Snowflakes

This year I told myself that I would try some of the neat ideas out there for paper ornaments. One that I really wanted to try was the tag snowflake tutorial at Splitcoast. I don't think I ordered them from Stampin' Up but I just so happen to have the two different tag sized punches so I figured that meant I just HAD to give it a try. Well, I made the snowflakes but wasn't exactly sure how to make them into ornaments. I didn't just want to punch a hole in them. They are too pretty for that. I think I read somewhere about making more than one and somehow working from there. But in the meantime, I had these snowflakes that I wanted to use.

At about this time, I was thinking about how to decorate some nugget tins. Why not use the two together? And that is how these came about.

This snowflake uses red cardstock and vellum. I used a great velvet brad for the center of the flower. The labels covering the nuggets are stamped with a stamp from Verve Visual.

This one is pretty similar to the first one. I used red cardstock (a little thicker this time which did make a difference, it looks a bit better in person) with red patterned paper. The poinsettia is stamped for the center with a Swarovski crystal adding a bit of sparkle.

The nuggets are stamped the same as the first tin.

I wanted to make a blue snowflake so that led to this one. I used blue cardstock and vellum for the center. I just used a silver brad for the center of the flower and matched up the flower and cardstock. These nugget tins hold one box of the Hershey stix (yum), about 16 sticks.

I've cleaned up my studio after the disaster from last week's craft fair preparation. I feel like I can almost find everything again. This week I'm working on Christmas card orders. And also trying to come up with a design for our family cards.  I suppose first I need a picture to work around huh? That's next on the list and a project for the weekend.

Comments

[Siobhan]

These are so cool!! They look great Laura!!

[Julie]

These turned out great. Your flowers are beautiful must give this a try. What a great gift idea.