Holiday Project – Handmade Tags – Embossed Snowflakes

A few months ago, I made some handmade tags for Julie’s handmade for the holidays series. There were six tags and one set of downloads. I will post all of them one at a time during this week.

For all my tags I used manila tags I bought at Office Depot. You can always cut your own tag from cardstock and punch a hole as well.

Here are the steps to this simple tag:
1. For this tag, I wanted to experiment with embossing. I stamped some snowflakes into my background with embossing ink.
2. I embossed using sparkly clear embossing powder.
3. I then inked the tag using blues and greens. The embossed sections resisted the ink.
4. I added the big snowflake and changed the button with a bigger, more ornamental one.
5. I glued on ribbon on the bottom and added a sticker with Season

Supplies used: The Girls’ Paperie Tinsel and Twig vintage buttons, sticker market, trims, and flower market crepe paper. Broken China and Shabby Shutters distress ink.

And here’s a movie where I demonstrate how I made the tag:

This was originally posted at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer‘s blog as part of handmade for the holidays series.