Ellen Hutson 12 Tags Of Christmas

Ho, ho, ho, my merry elves!

Today I’m guesting for the Ellen Hutson 12 Tags of Christmas event, and the Christmas carol that is designated for today is Christmas In A Coffee Shop. How perfect is that?? I mean, I am pretty much running on caffeine and sass, lol!

This event is a two-for-one, so one of the Ellen Hutson design team members are teamed up with a guest, and we each get a Christmas Carol to use as the inspiration for our tags. You can find Adelina’s blog post HERE, and also Ellen’s introductory blog post with her fabulously creative tag HERE!

Here is a photo of my tags, and I will tell you all about them a bit further down.

In all honesty, I haven’t started listening to Christmas music yet, as it’s still sunny and mild here on the Mediterranean coast of Valencia. In fact, only yesterday my Mamma and I spent a good chunk of the day at the beach basking in the sunshine!

However, colouring images is always fun and I do adore these bears from the Weather Weather In The Woods stamp set. I have done one as a polar bear and one as a brown bear, and matched up their sweaters to the rest of the tags.

The bears were cut out with the coordinating diecut and on the back, I added some foam squares, to add some height to the bears.

The polar bear got a nice blue sweater as well as a blue plaid tag, plus a galaxy blue-ish tag too. This is created by sprinkling Nuvo Shimmer Powder in Meteorite Shower on wet water colour paper. I didn’t mix it up a lot as I wanted the different colours to shine through.

I did a similar thing for the brown bear’s tag, only I used Golden Sparkler Nuvo Shimmer Powder. The colours in this fit better with his green sweater and green plaid tag. The tag die I have used for all of these pieces is actually a Combo Swatch die from Waffle Flower, it was the perfect size for my tags.

The finishing touches were a few little snowflake dies, cut out with the adorable Winter Tiny Tags diecut from Lawn Fawn. I also heat embossed ‘do not open until the 25th’ on them with Rich Gold embossing powder, this is from the coordinating Tiny Tag Sayings stamp set. While I had the tag die out, I also cut out one silver and one gold snowflake out of glitter card stock, to layer up with the heat embossed one.

A bit of ribbon and a pompom later and the tags were done!

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you have enjoyed this post. Don’t forget to check out Adelina’s post and the rest of the Ellen Hutson 12 Tags Of Christmas event!

Lots of love and happy crafting from Erica

Almost all of the products I have used, or a suitable alternative, can be found in the Ellen Hutson shop. Affiliate links to products below, at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much if you chose to support me by using these links, I really appreciate it!

Watercolor Paper Pad 9×12, Canson XL

Combo Swatch, Waffle Flower Stamp & Die Combo

Buffalo Brights, My Favorite Things Paper Pack

Meteorite Shower, Tonic Nuvo Shimmer Powder

Golden Sparkler, Tonic Nuvo Shimmer Powder

Winter Tiny Tags, Lawn Cuts Dies

Tiny Tag Sayings, Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps

Sweater Weather In The Woods By Birdie Brown, My Favorite Things Clear Stamps

Midnight, Concord & 9th Premium Color Cardstock

Sprout, Concord & 9th Premium Color Cardstock

WOW Embossing Pad, Ultra Slow Drying – Clear

WOW Embossing Powder, Super Fine – Metallic Gold Rich

Powder Tool Adhesive Deactivator, EK Success

Blackout Hybrid Detail, Ink On 3 Ink Pads

Tonic Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Foam Tape – White, Gina K Designs

5mm White, Darice Pom-Poms

C7 – Cool Gray No. 7, COPIC Sketch Marker

C5 – Cool Gray No. 5, COPIC Sketch Marker

C3 – Cool Gray No. 3, COPIC Sketch Marker

C2 – Cool Gray No. 2, COPIC Sketch Marker

C1 – Cool Gray No. 1, COPIC Sketch Marker

C0 – Cool Gray No. 0, COPIC Sketch Marker

C00 – Cool Gray No. 00, COPIC Sketch Marker

B99 – Agate, COPIC Sketch Marker

B97 – Night Blue, COPIC Sketch Marker

B95 – Light Grayish Cobalt, COPIC Sketch Marker

B93 – Light Crockery Blue, COPIC Sketch Marker

B91 – Pale Grayish Blue, COPIC Sketch Marker

G28 – Ocean Green, COPIC Sketch Marker

G24 – Willow, COPIC Sketch Marker

G21 – Lime Green, COPIC Sketch Marker

E39 – Leather, COPIC Sketch Marker

E37 – Sepia, COPIC Sketch Marker

E35 – Chamois, COPIC Sketch Marker

E34 – Toast, COPIC Sketch Marker

E11 – Barley Beige, COPIC Sketch Marker

R01 – Pinkish Vanilla, COPIC Sketch Marker

R27 – Cadmium Red, COPIC Sketch Marker

R35 – Coral, COPIC Sketch Marker

R37 – Carmine, COPIC Sketch Marker

E29 – Burnt Umber, COPIC Sketch Marker