Monday, October 12, 2015

Sugar Plum Gift Tags by Wendy Sue Anderson

Good morning Doodlebug friends!  It's Wendy Sue here today, sharing a couple of super fun (and easy) projects I created with the new Sugar Plum collection!
When Santa comes to our home on Christmas Eve he leaves the gifts wrapped and sorted into areas so each child gets their own little stack.  Does he do that at your house?  Sometimes he needs a little bit of help keeping the piles straight, so this year I decided to help him out by creating these giant tags for each child. Santa will just have to make sure the correct tag is placed on or near each child's gifts and there won't be any confusion on Christmas morning - yay!
Here's a closer look at the tags.
To create the tags, I cut a regular paper in half.  Then I folded the bottom up 4" so the reverse side of the paper is showing.  This made the base 6"x8".
Next, I added a strip of striped paper at the top of the  folded portion (this striped paper was cut from the 6x6 pad).
After that, I added a strip of Santa doodle tape (isn't that the cutest?  I think I'm going to use that instead of scotch tape to wrap my gifts this year!), and a border sticker, below the striped paper.  I also tied a piece of doodle twine around the entire piece, tying a bow to the right side and clipping on a mini clothespin.

I punched half circles and added them to the top of each tag, and placed an enamel dot over each top as well.  The main image is from the 4x6 card page - and each one is embellished with letter stickers, various stickers, and enamel dots.

I started feeling a little jealous that Santa had his tags all ready, and I didn't have mine yet...so I decided to fix that!  I simply took this awesome patterned paper:
And cut the tags out.  I also punched the holes in the top:
And then I pulled out my brand spankin' new AMAZING rolls of chunky twine
And added colorful twine to each tag.
Now Santa and I BOTH have a jump start on our holiday gift tags!  What could be better?!?

18 comments:

  1. Pinned in my doodlebug design ideas board

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  2. These turned out so cute Wendy! Such a great idea! :)

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  3. What cute tags!! I love the fun, festive colors and patterns.

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  4. I pinned the gift tags.
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486811040950828454/

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  5. I pinned your gift tags.
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/486811040950828461/

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  6. I love the gorgeous tags you created! The giant tags are such a fun idea but I also love how you cut the tags from the patterned paper. I pinned this fun project so I can "scrap lift" this idea!

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  7. I shared on Pinterest...
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/26106872818815406/

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  8. awesome!!!!! i just love the tags totally love them!!!!!! i must get some of this collection so i can do this for xmas with my girls.

    i pinned also - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354095589431448599/

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  9. I absolutely adore Wendy Sue and her amazing creativity and talents!!! Love seeing these tags and what an awesome idea!! I pinned her idea here - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/99923685460246324/

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  10. I GLADLY shared this cuteness by Wendy Sue with my peeps on Facebook!!!!

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  11. Liked and shared
    on FB.
    Carla from Utah

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  12. Pinned here:
    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/52846995604968787/
    Carla from Utah

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  13. Some cute tags that
    would be fun to receive.
    Carla from Utah

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  14. so cute tags :) pinned https://www.pinterest.com/pin/391179917612341525/

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  15. pinned :D https://www.pinterest.com/pin/391179917612341542/

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