A new start

I have moved!

I have created a new website to host my cards instead of using this blog.

http://www.sharedcards.com/

There is a new blog as well, under the sharedcards.com name, that will follow changes on the website and my cardmaking efforts.

http://sharedcards.blogspot.com/

Finally, you can get short occasional updates on the state of the web site by following twitter now:

http://www.twitter.com/sharedcards

My Three Tags

If you read the last post, I have been playing with gift tags and the CuttleBug Beautiful Boxes Embossing and Die Cut set. Here are three more tags using a different embossing folder. The last one is the same technique as before except on blue cardstock. The first is also the same but just uses a turquoise metallic broad tip pen on white card stock. For the middle one, I took a gold dew drop ink pad and tried to just color the embossing. I ended up with gold mostly on the embossing but some in the background too which was fine. In person its looks like a metallic gold but the scanner turned in a sunshine yellow. The backs are all plain white piece of cardstock you can write on that have been die cut to shape and glued on with some stick glue.

Beautifully Boxed Gift Tag

I brought a bunch of neat Cuttlebug die and embossing sets on sale a while back and set them aside to make sure I revisted them after Christmas cards were done. The sets includes a 2"x2" die and 4 matched embossing folders so you can emboss what you just cut out. A lot of the things I create actually start with me wanted to use something I brought. This is the first project using them.

 I used some scraps of green I had left over from another project. The die cut and embossing folder are from the Cuttlebug Beautifully Box set. I then went over the raised dry embossing with a broad tiped silver gel pen. I had wanted to use the gold one but it was dried out while the silver one from the same set was not. I then added red glitter glue to the bows hoping to add some strength to the paper where I plan on putting a ribbon. I also wanted to bring in some more red so when I fill in names with a red gel pen they will stand out better. I made this one with the Xmas Red Stickles but switched to a cheaper product for the rest of them because the stickles bottle is mostly used up from the 3rd Christmas card I made this year and it's difficult for me to get it at a good price. Not sure what I an using for ribbon yet but I punched a small hole for it in the top bow lace. My original thought was some very thin silver cord.

If you are looking for that 3rd Christmas card that uses the red stickles, try back next year. I decided to send out the snow globes this year but had already produced enough of the other card. Unless I design something better, it's next years card right now. It's the same deal with the first two I made as well, I may send them out one year so they are secrets until then.