TGIF – Sew Adorable Gift Tags with Dawn + Save the Date!

TGIF! Before we get to Dawn’s fun project today, just a bit of news! We hope you’ll join us next week for some fun while we release a new collection of products and celebrate our 5th birthday. I can hardly believe it! We hope you’ll join us here on the blog. We’ll start the week on Monday with a few days of sneak peeks, and then we’ll have a couple of blog hops and product showcases before our new Confetti Encore collection hits the shop on Friday 4/26!

Now I’ll hand it over to Dawn so she can tell us all about the cute tags she’s sharing with us today!

For awhile now, I’ve been wanting to use the hoopla dies and such to make a set of little embroidery-inspired all-occasion gift tags.  I finally got around to making them and they turned out so darling!  I stamped the to/from on the back of the larger ones, and the smaller ones I’ll use by adding onto packages more as an embellishment with the bow and I can also just write the to: info on the back.

I used the Rose Tapestry stencils to create the main images for each tag.  I just stenciled one panel and then used the Hoopla Round Inserts and Hoopla Mini Inserts dies to cut the floral panel apart.  Before I die cut it though, I ran it through my die cutting machine with the Aida Cloth Texture Plate, to give it a more realistic touch.

I used some of the dies from Embroidered Blooms to add some various sprigs and leaves to some of the tags and layered up a couple of them, by using the Four Square Tags die and the Four Square Holiday Tags stamp set along with the hoops (Round and Mini).  It was fun to pull together a variety of tags….some more layered and some less….and I can’t wait to use them on some birthday and “just because” gifts this spring and summer!

Hope this has given you some inspiration to pull out the Hoopla collection of goodies and make some for yourself!”