Tag: GEMS! 'You are a treasured friend'

Your fortresses will be built of RUBIES,
your gates of JEWELS, and your walls of GEMS.

Isaiah 54 : 12   (CEV)

Welcome to Thursday Totally Tags ‘n’ ATCs over at MyPaperCrafting.com!  Every Thursday we on the Design Team do a team post featuring Tags n' ATC's.  We have a specific Theme each week featuring an element, technique or embellishment.  We all come up with something excitingly different – using various types of tools, etc. to create our projects...i.e., Cricut, CAMEO, Spellbinders, punches, stamps, paint, material, lace, inks, etc.   The sky's the limit!  The only restriction...  If we use SVG's or Digi's, we will only use those from the vast selection at PCW.  There are some changes coming for the next few summer months, so please keep track of things by visiting Melin’s blog – and checking back here often.  I’ll let You know, when I know how things will work out.

The Theme for this week’s projects is GEMS!  I chose to use one of the newer Cutting Files, 'Vintage Pendant cf,'  that Melin has recently offered as the ‘base of the tag.  I decorated it with Gems and added a stamped sentiment on the back side.  There’s room for a hand-written note, also.

Here is the tag –

Close-up of cut file -

I cut the ‘shadow’ from Black and Gray paisley print paper.  I cut the design file from Charcoal Gray Sparkle cardstock.  I adhered them and then added the Gems.  I also added a bow to the top.  I printed the sentiment on White cardstock, cut around the words, inked the edge and adhered it to the back of the Tag.

Back of Tag - stamped sentiment -

Here is the cutting file I used  -  ‘Vintage Pendant cf’

 

**********

Be sure to visit Melin at MPC and sign up for her blog and Newsletters, join us on the Blog Hops at various times of the year and check there weekly to see what’s offered in her Store!  She offers Amazing Digi and Cutting Files and I’m SURE that you will find lovely items to enhance your paper-crafting projects!  As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what or how I have done on here -  Happy Crafting!  ;-}

**********

Here is the FREE digi-file for this week at My Paper Crafting.  Be sure to stop over there, if you haven’t already, see all of the other creative projects, get the file, make a project of your own using a digi-file from My Paper Crafting and then link it there so we can see it, too!

FREE file -  

 

**********

Have You made any interesting Tags recently?  I’d love to see them!  Let me know if you have any questions about anything I’ve done here or on any other blog post -  Blessings until next time!

**********

Thanks for visiting here today!  I hope you take a few minutes to check all of the Tag/ATC creativeness on the other blogs, too!    Melin should have a Free File for today on her blog, also!  I’ll Update and have the file here as soon as it’s posted over there - 

Be sure to remember MPC for all of your Cutting and Digital files.  Tomorrow is our Digi Dessert Fridaze post, every other Tuesday is a Cutting File post and in between I may post some other projects.  

Check out my Tabs in the Header above to see what else I do and can do for you!  Let me know if you have questions on anything here – or if I can do anything for You!  Have a Great Week!  See you again soon!

B’ Bye!  -  Bye!  -  B’ Bye!

(You can take the Gal out of the Sky, but You can’t take the Sky out of the Gal!)  ;-}

Celebrate Cinco!! Ginger-Cilantro Margarita Tag

They CELEBRATE your abundant goodness

and joyfully sing of your righteousness.

Psalm 145 : 7

 

Welcome to Digi Desserts Fridaze in connection with My Paper Crafting !    We, on the Design Team, are to create a project using a Digital File from the vast selection at MyPaperCrafting.com every Friday, share them with You and encourage You to visit over there, get the FREE Digi File for today, make a project with it and link it for all to see.  The ‘winning’ designer is highlighted next week as a Guest Designer!   It’s an easy and fun thing to do on the weekend! 

For this week’s project I found inspiration on Pinterest in the form of a photo and recipe for an ‘unusual,’ but tasty sounding Margarita drink – Ginger and Cilantro – both of which I really like and both are ‘healthy choices’!  *wink*  The recipe can be modified to make a refreshing non-alcoholic drink, also.

Here is the Photo – I’ll include a link for the recipe (along with many others on that site) at the end of this post.

I used the ‘D2 Tag-Flake 2g cf’ for the tag and I made my own cut file using my SCAL3 program and photos from Google Images.  I made the Margarita Glass and the Cilantro leaves. The colors aren’t showing properly and I really worked on them.  It should all be an Olive green and Sage green shade, although it looks like various shades of green and white…  ;-{    Here is my Tag –

*  The base of the Tag is Sage parchment cardstock with a second layer cut from Olive Green patterned wallpaper.  I inked the edges with Gold to coordinate with the patches of gold in the paper.     The glass is cut from Vellum.  The liquid is sage – the larger portion is under the Vellum and the smaller portion is over the Vellum.

  *  I cut some small pieces of the Cilantro for IN the drink and put a few leaves next to the glass by the flower sprig.  I cut a larger leaf from a $$Store pick into smaller pieces and added a white flower that I inked with Gold, also.  I cut a piece of Cream parchment cardstock to look like a sliver of ginger to hang on the edge of the glass

*  I printed the sentiment, ‘Celebrate Cinco !!’ in Olive Green (Arcade font) and cut a tag.  I attached it to the glass with a small piece of gold wire -

*  I added two shades of ribbon looped and tied through a hole punched at the top.

Here is the file I used for the Tag -

So – Celebrate Cinco – and the coming of warm summer weather!

I found the recipes here - http://thegoudalife.tumblr.com/post/46258499278/desperately-seeking-sun-ginger-cilantro-margaritas 

**********

Be sure to visit Melin at MPC and sign up for her blog and Newsletters, join us on the Blog Hops at various times of the year and check there weekly to see what’s offered in her Store!  She offers Amazing Digi and Cutting Files and I’m SURE that you will find lovely items to enhance your paper-crafting projects!  As always, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about what or how I have done on here -  Happy Crafting!  ;-}

**********

Here is the FREE digi-file for this week at My Paper Crafting.  Be sure to stop over there, if you haven’t already, see all of the other creative projects, get the file, make a project of your own using a digi-file from MyPaper Crafting and then link it there so we can see it, too!

 FREE file  - 

We invite YOU to participate in our Digi Dessert Fridaze weekly posts.  Spring is a time of "new beginnings" and we love to see things "take root, blossom and grow”....so, we decided it was a good time to announce some changes to our Challenges and Link Ups.  Here is the link to Melin’s explanation of how things will work now.  Be sure to pop over there and be included in the creative fun!    http://www.mypapercrafting.com/2013/04/aprilprizes.html 

Be sure to come back here often as I showcase other Paper Crafted Projects and Photo Digital Restorations that I make – several days each week.  Sign up to receive my Posts so you’ll know when I’ve posted something – usually 3 to 4 times weekly.  Tuesdays every other week are Cutting files from MPC – Thursdays are Tags and ATCs – Fridays are Digi Files from MPC -  Other days may be other projects! 

Check out my Tabs in the Header above to see what else I do and can do for you!  Let me know if you have questions on anything here – or if I can do anything for You!  Have a Great Week!  See you again soon!

B’ Bye!  Bye!  B’ Bye!

(You can take the Gal out of the Sky, but You can’t take the Sky out of the Gal!)  ;-}

Thursday Totally Tags & ATCs - 'Stitching' Gift Card Tag

There is a time to tear cloth and a time to SEW it.
There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.

Ecclesiastes 3 : 7

 

Welcome to the recently added Thursday Totally Tags ‘n’ ATCs over at MyPaperCrafting.com!  Every Thursday we on the Design Team will begin doing a team post featuring Tags n' ATC's.  We will have a specific Theme each week featuring an element, technique or embellishment.  We’ll all come up with something excitingly different – using various types of tools, etc. to create our projects...i.e., Cricut, CAMEO, Spellbinders, punches, stamps, paint, material, lace, inks, etc.   The sky's the limit!  The only restriction...  If we use SVG's or Digi's, we will only use those from the vast selection at PCW.

The Theme for this week's projects is ‘Stitching.’  I have made a Gift Card Tag, on the order of one I recently saw on Pinterest, but with my own design totally.  I used the ‘Butterfly 'n' Tag 221 Cutting  File Set’ by Melin, but I also altered that pattern a bit, too, to make this.

While it’s true that I have been sewing since I was 9 years old – back in the Paleolithic Era  (!!) – for several reasons I decided to use Faux-stitching on this project rather than ‘real’ stitching.  I have made many a quilting project through the years, also, and decided to use Quilting as a theme for this project and the stitching that one does for it.  This Tag could be used for any occasion for which someone chooses to give a Gift card to someone – or attach it along with another gift of some sort.

Here it is –

*  I began with the cutting file put into my SCAL3 program (and then cut it with my Silhouette CAMEO).  I sized the file to my desired needs.  I then Copied the inset, moved it, shortened it and welded it to the left side of the base tag, which made the front fold for the tag.  I cut inset pieces for the front and inside two pages.  I used Sage and Brown papers.

*  I punched small squares and made the quilt pattern for the front and inside pocket, which I made on my own to fit a Gift Card and a smaller tag for including a note upon.  I ‘faux-stitched’ with a brown pen.  I punched a Tab and adhered it to the front before adding the insert pieces, for ease in opening the tag.

*  I punched a border lace for the inside page and punched 3 ‘bracket’ shapes to layer and write or stamp a sentiment upon later.

*  I punched leaves, then added small ‘felt’ flowers and gems (Recollections) to make a spray on the inside page. 

This is the cutting file I used for the Tag –

**********

Thanks for visiting here today!  I hope you take a few minutes to check all of the Tag/ATC creativeness on the other blogs, too!    Melin should have a Free File for today on her blog, also!  Be sure to remember MPC for all of your Cutting and Digital files. 

Here is the FREE File for today over at MPC!  Scoot over to see the other projects and get this -

Tomorrow is our Digi Dessert Fridaze post, every other Tuesday is a Cutting File post and in between I may post some other projects.  

 We invite you come by for our 24 Carrot EGGS-travganza Blog Hop this Saturday!  It should be lots of Creative Fun and Free things, too!  Come again!  ;-}  Let me know if I can do any Paper-crafting  or Vintage Digital Photo Restoration for You or anyone you know!