Repurpose old fashion Christmas light bulbs

I bought a bag of these at a yard sale years ago and finally got to glitter them up.
The glitter was ultra fine (actually was a fall clearance bundle also on clearance years ago.) Mod Podge Matte the outside and not the cap. Added green hook wires and hot glued ribbon around the wire and cap. Final step to keep glitter sealed in (before adding ribbon) was a clear spray sealer.
Thought about what else it needed so punched out a saying and hung it off the wire. Now to package up for craft fair!

Stick Pin Swap with a handmade tag

Hi all, You may have seen these when I first posted them. Well I mailed them yesterday and included a butterfly tag.

The Tag was hand cut and the elements and layers were as follows.
Inked the edges with Colorbox brown ink
Stamped the Martha Stewart butterfly in blue Stazon
Glimmer misted the fabulous red/pink over the butterfly (waited for it to dry)
Use blue Stickles and highlighted certain portions of the butterfly (wait to dry)
Added little Recollection Pearls to the antennae.
To the top - I used my Crop-a-dile and punch the hole and added some fun yarn fibers.
Just a little something extra and glad to have mailed them on Friday.(click pic to view all the details)

CSAYL gift tag set

Maria challenged us to make a gift tag set. Perfect as my MIL birthday is coming up and she is one to recycle old Christmas cards into tags! Fab idea which I need to do too. But I wanted to make her a set (12) of special tags she can use. She better use them!!! LOL
here is my take on the challenge at Christmas Stampin' All Year Long
Products used SU! stamps and most card stock
The holder was made from DCWV cs
The Ribbon is from Wal-Mart
The snowflake is a MS punch
The trees are a CB die and embossing set.
Entering this gift set at Moxie Fab World, Season's Giftings Challenge in the Moxie Fab World!! I love making gifts.

Cuttlebug Challenge Christmas tag

As soon as I saw this challenge at the Cuttlebug Challenges - I immediately made these for a gift for my SIL and BIL as a thank you for having us over for a small cookout.
They were simple to make - base is 2 x 3 and accent layers. I did not tear my corrugation as it was thick. I embossed the SU tree with Jeweled Gold Stamp N Stuff by Stampendous

I made 14 of these - here are a couple shown. The To and From are stamped on red cs on the back - I did not take a pic before I gave them away.

Dragonflies and Butteflies tags

Created the pair of tags tonight for a few challenges.
The tags are 3 x 4 1/4 rounded corners by my corner rounder from Creative Memories
The dragonfly image is embossed with accented pearls
The tag topper is a punch from Stampin' Up as well as the embossed butterflies
Misc silk ribbon, pearl flower and twine.

I may use these on a card or a LO.
Will enter these into Tuesday Taggers to make any tag this week, and at The Pink Elephant to use one image, two dies and three accents

Tags - vintage feel

I was blog hopping last night and I saw a post of some beautiful tags, so I wanted to give it a try.
I did simpler version, took a large script stamp and inked it with my Rust Adirondack ink, I like the color on the craft card stock.
I took various stamp colors and inked the out side to give it the vintage look.
I had been saving up the negative version of my Cricut cuts just for this project especially the bird and heart (When I saw Daring Cardmaker wanted a bird used on their challenge... I knew I wanted to do use my negative and then is snow balled into tags - and I couldn't stop after one and two)
I added some twine and a charm.
I plan on adding glitter - but I had to baby sit and wanted to post these tonight.

please let me know what you think - I may remove the charm... will sleep on it and probably add the glitter tomorrow and re-post.

My next blog candy - one of these will make it to the pile - so stay tuned!

Gift tags or ornaments

I was blog hopping and came across a rectangle then cut into a tree shaped. Tracy Harp had run it through the Cuttlebug and inked the embossing.... so I took it one step further.

I added the following elements to the "tree" an acetate ornament, and a border using a Martha Stewart punch.

I may add them to our tree or use them as package or gift bag tie on's..... just wanted to show to to use acetate with your punches and Cuttlebug for a neat effect.

I am entering this as well into The Practical Scrappers blog

TPI's - Tags plus Inchie swap

So Kopperhead on the message board has us all addicted to inchies, she came up with an idea - hey we all like tags, we are all crazy over inchies - why not combine them! She coined the phrase - TPI - Tags plus inchies! (This swap is on the Cricut Message board)

I am in her Grand Finale Swap "Lucky Seven" swapand with all this rain - I started them last night and finished them this morning and will mail them today. We could interpret "&" any way we want. Mine is 7 elements to the tags.

We each took a group of 7. I did two sets.

Tag Swap

I joined a Tag Swap on the Cricut MB. This was fun - I almost didn't want to mail them. LOL

Can't wait to see what gets swapped. I used the JOTS cart - on the tag option. Various colored cardstock, fine glitter, glitter pen and snowflakes to dangle. Hope all enjoys the variety.