I'm so excited to share my fun tags with you today. I whipped these up using my brand new FUSE tool for my Cardz TV Gallery post today. I purchased it a couple months ago from Amazon with a gift card my daughter gave me for my birthday. With Christmas only ten days away it was the perfect time to make these shaker tags that I've been wanting to try. I started with a piece of 4.25 x 5.5 inch Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor cardstock and cut it in half. On one I did a quick color wash of Festive Berries Distress ink and on the other I used Cracked Pistachio Distress ink. While they dried I prepared my die cuts and heat embossed my sentiments. The Merry die cut came from My Creative Time. I cut one in red and the other from shiny gold cardstock. Then I die cut the deer (also from My Creative Time). Next I stamped the EVERYTHING sentiment on fish tail banners. One was stamped with Versamark ink and sprinkled with WOW Gold Glitter embossing powder, the other with Versafine Onyx Black ink and sprinkled with Ranger Fine Embossing powder in Clear then I heated them up with my heat gun. I colored my Santa image from Pink & Main Jolly Holidays stamp set. I will be entering this tag in the Pink & Main Challenge #4 for Christmas.
Now it was time to bring out the FUSE tool. I have to tell you that it took a bit of practice to get the lines fused properly. My first try was not the best and I threw it away, but the next came out fine after I got the hang of placing the tool correctly in the slit on the ruler that comes with it. I fused three sides of each tag and then filled the pouches with lots of bits and bobs. Some sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, microbeads and iridescent stars from Martha Stewart and a few miscellaneous sequins I found in my stash including stars and snowflakes. After filling the two pouches I fused the tags shut on the top and added eyelets to each one. On the gold tag I added Lawn Fawn Gold Sparkle Cord and on the Santa tag I added red and white twine. To complete the tags I added the die cuts, stamped image and sentiment banners to the front. You can find the Merry Everything Stamp set HERE.
