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Showing posts with label Tag. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

An Uneventful Journey of Joy

Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I were travelling to the great city of the money changers, where all the tax collectors resided. We were off to celebrate the Winter Festival at the estate of our Uncle, a renowned accountant of the realm. Before we left the Guild Hall, I dashed up to the crafting chambers and quickly put together a gift to present to our gracious hosts.

This wine tag was created for The Inked Stamper design team and was based on this inspiration photo.
This tag has two job classes and acts as both a wine tag and a gift card holder. I didn’t have a gift card at home, so made a stand-in for demonstrative purposes. On the block letters, I used a snow pen marker and some Iced Stickles.
To create the pocket, I simply folded the piece around the main panel and glued it all together. The whole piece was then adhered to the wine tag base. The paper cut to 7.75” x 3.75” and scored at 2.5”. The piece for the pocket was cut to 2.5” x 4.25” and then scored a quarter of an inch on each side to create the flaps to wrap around the main panel of patterned paper. I wanted the pocket a little bigger so more of that great deer paper would be showing, but didn’t want the gift card drowning in the pocket, so when gluing it together I put glue on the entire bottom half (1.25”) so the gift card could stick out the top.


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The journey to the great city of the money changers was surprisingly uneventful. Angela and I arrived just in time to partake in the great feast of our ancestors consisting of the traditional twelve meatless dishes. We were sent home with a great many leftovers, which we loaded onto the horses in preparation for the ride back to the Guild Hall. ‘Tis the season of the feast.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Red Nosed Indeed

As we were leaving the dwarven city, our satchels filled with newly acquired loot, the Lady Command of Copics, Guardian of Glitter and I came across an unusual sight. We had just emerged from the underground caverns when we heard what sounded like a rowdy party in the nearby forest. Curious, we followed the noise only to come across nine reindeer completely drunk on wine.

This wine tag was created for The Inked Stamper design team and was based on this inspiration photo.
For this wine tag, I stamped and paper pieced the reindeer using the Dylusions “Christmas Accessories” set. I cut the paper to 8.5” x 2.75” and scored at 2.5”. I used a 2” circle punch for the hole because it is literally the only circle punch I own, but I think a smaller one would be better - 1.5” would probably be perfect. The sentiment was stamped with the Dylusions “Christmas Words” set. If this was used on a bottle of vodka, rye, or any other spirit it would really level up the Pun damage of this tag. It’s hard to tell from the picture, but the rectangle of wood paper was cut using the Lawn Fawn “Stitched Rectangles” die set.
This wine tag will sass up the following challenges:
As we peered through the bushes at the unruly bunch, I noticed that one of the reindeer had a blazing red nose. Either he was a chronic drinker, or this was the infamous Rudolph. If the latter, this could spell disaster for the Winter Festival which was scheduled for tomorrow night!

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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The Joy of Looting

Today the Lady Commander of Copics, Guardian of Glitter and I were exploring the abandoned underground city of the dwarves, looking for treasure and loot...because that’s what adventurers do, when we came across an oddity. Amongst all the rocks and stone archways, there stood a small wooden door. Stuffing a newly acquired gem into my bag-of-holding, I approached the door. Carved into the wood was the word “joy”.

This wine tag was created for The Inked Stamper design team and was based on this inspiration photo.
I cut the paper to 8.5” x 2.75” and scored at 2.5”. I used a 2” circle punch for the hole because it is literally the only circle punch I own, but I think a smaller one would be better - 1.5” would probably be perfect. The snowflake for this was cut using the Lawn Fawn “Stitched Snowflakes” die set and the letters were cut with the Lawn Fawn “Finley’s ABCs” die set. The borders I cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge. The red looked a little blah, so I used a white gel pen to spruce it up a little, earning +50 accent XP points.
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“What say you, Guild Master? Should we open it?” the Lady Commander asked.
“We should at least knock,” the Guardian of Glitter said, running her fingers over the carved word.
I knocked twice rapidly. There was no response. Shrugging my shoulders I tried the door handle. Locked. I extracted my lock picking kit from my satchel and Nikki shot me a look.
“What?! There could be loot in here!” I exclaimed.
A rogue at heart, I wasn’t about to let possible loot slip away, and proceeded to work on the lock.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014

The Sassy Informant

Greetings. Thank you for stopping by the Guild Hall today. The Guardian of Glitter and I are off exploring the Floundering Reef looking for signs of where the Duke of Dies has the Lady Commander of Copics locked up. Our investigating finally lead us to a derelict looking building in the slums. We had heard whispers that there was a lass here who knew where the Duke of Dies had his lair. When we opened the door to the run down shack we were surprised to see a dance studio inside with girls in tutus, practicing ballet. Nikki and I stood off to the side watching when one of the girls finally noticed us and stomped over. She was wearing a kawaii pig headed hat and a little curly pig tail could be seen poking from her skirts.
“Who’re you?” she snarled, crossing her arms over her chest.
“I’m sorry to interrupt, miss. I am Guild Master Crys…”
“Ya, ya, ya. Whatcha want?” she demanded, tapping her foot.
“We are looking for,” I consulted my parchment, “'Sugar Ganache'.”
“That’s me. Make it snappy,” the girl said, glaring at me.

I was invited to guest design over at Try it on Tuesday where the theme this week is Tags Anywhere or Just a Tag. I’m not well adept at making tags as I usually make cards, so this was truly a challenging crafty quest, but I did have fun making it and like how it turned out.
Guest designer 2014.JPG
I started this tag by stamping the Kraftin’ Kimmie “Angry Ballerina” image and colouring it with Prismacolor pencils. I then worked on the background, stamping the Unity “Worn Music” image and heat embossing it. I sprayed the tag with pink Dylusions spray ink and then used a stencil and some Black Soot Distress Ink, wiping off the music notes with a baby wipe. The borders were cut using the Artbooking cartridge. Last I added the cheeky sentiment from the Dylusions “Say It How It Is” set earning myself +333 sassy XP points and leveling up!

This tag will dance into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: I ought to use this more (Dylusions spray ink. I have a bunch of them and hardly use them anymore.)

After some prodding we were able to ascertain the location of the Duke of Dies lair thanks to Sugar’s information. After she was done with us, she stomped back to the group, her pig ears flapping as she walked, and continued on with her dancing. I had never met someone with a more ironic name - a sassy brat named Sugar - go figure.

~ Guild Master Crystal  ~
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

An Up-Cycled Strike

Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I went to Fuzzy Frost Forest to hunt for nullwork demons. We had received word from the teddy clan living in the forest of a recent infestation of the dangerous creatures. The teddys are a peaceful people, making their home in the woods which are enchanted with a perpetual winter. They are defenseless though, and turned to the Crafters Guild for assistance. Being that the nullworks are so large, it was very easy to track them down. We took out the sentries that were guarding the entrance to a massive cave with a couple well aimed arrows and headed in.

These tags were made by reusing an old Christmas card I received. I cut out the cute bears using the Lawn Fawn “Tag, You’re It” die set. Here is what the Christmas card looked like after:
I stamped the fronts with the Lawn Fawn “Winter Gifts” set, framing the images and then stamped some sentiments on them. I attached some twine to the small tag and some pretty red ribbon to the larger one.

On the backs I stamped the outline again with the “Winter Gifts” set. On the top one I only had enough room for a “to and from” because it was small, but the bottom one I managed to fit a sentiment and a little sprig of holly, earning me +39 earth elemental exp points. This was super easy to do, and you can bet I will be making a TON of tags using old Christmas cards throughout the year. 

These tags will cuddle up in the following challenges:

Although the nullworks are large and dangerous, they also have a very low intelligence rating. It was easy to infiltrate their rudimentary hideout and slaughter the remainder of them. It is still unclear as to who released the nullworks into this dimension, as they are not native to the realm and don't have the power to get here on their own. My sister and I headed back to the Guild Hall to begin our investigation.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Thursday, 12 December 2013

Tags of +55 Christmas Cheer

Salutations. There is a lot to inscribe today, so I shall keep the preamble short. I have been shut in the crafting chambers for the past 17 hours as the candles wore down, toiling away on a gift for our neighbor, Madam Wendy. A kind soul, I figured she could use some magically infused gift tags for her Winter Festival gifts. 

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I started this set by cutting all the tags using the Winter Frolic cartridge. I then started stamping the tags. The penguin tag was stamped with the Unity “Tinsel in a Tangle” itty bitty and coloured with Distress Markers. I added some glitter to the tinsel for some extra sparkle. 
The reindeer tag was stamped using the Hero Arts “Christmas Reindeer” set. I coloured him in with Distress Markers and paper pieced his sweater. The sentiment came from the My Pink Stamper “Christmas Wishes” set. Up next is an owl stamped using the Lawn Fawn “Winter Owl” set. He was also coloured with Distress Markers and had his scarf paper pieced. The sentiment was stamped with the Lawn Fawn “Winter Fox” set.


On the next row is a punny tag stamped using the Penny Black “Joyful Peas” stamp. I coloured it with Distress Markers and added some snowflakes in the background. Next over is the fox from the Lawn Fawn “Winter Fox” set. I coloured him with Distress Markers and stamped the sentiment using the Lawn Fawn “Cozy Christmas” set. Next tag was stamped using an Inkadinkado stamp. The next tag was stamped with the Unity “One of a Kind Christmas” set. I coloured him with Distress Markers and added some glitter to his hat. The snowflake was cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge. Want to know a secret? The only reason I added that snowflake was because when that tag was being cut, it actually messed up that part, so I used the snowflake to cover it. 
See - I cut two snowflakes and glued them together to cover the messed up part of the tag. This earned me +693 stealth exp points.  

The next tag was stamped using the Lawn Fawn “Winter Sparrows” set and coloured with Distress Markers. The last tag (and my personal favourite) was stamped with the Lawn Fawn “Yeti, Set, Go” set. I coloured him with Distress Markers and then covered him in Ice Stickles.

Don’t worry...I didn’t skip the first two tags. The top left tag was stamped using the Unity “Warm Winter Comforts” itty bitty and the Echo Park “Holly Jolly Christmas” set. I coloured it in sepia tones using Distress Markers.
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This tag was stamped using the Lawn Fawn “Making Frosty Friends” set. The sentiment came from the BugBites “Mistletoe” set. This tag also got the snowflake treatment for the same reason as that other snowman tag. The snowflake was cut using Art Philosophy and then I glued a shiny iridescent snowflake and a rhinestone on top.
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Because I made this set as a gift, I couldn’t very well just give the recipient a mitt-full of loose tags, so I had to make something for them to go into. I cut this folder and snowflakes out using the Artbooking cartridge. The sentiment shapes were cut using Art Philosophy. I stamped the title of the little folder using the Lawn Fawn “Cozy Christmas” and “Harold’s ABCs” set.
And look how nice and snug the tags look in their new home :)

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Madam Wendy was very happy with the gift tags. I neglected to tell her of the creative spells I cast upon the tags, to be unleashed upon the opening of the present they are attached to. I’ll let that be a fun surprise on Christmas morning.


~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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Saturday, 9 November 2013

Preserving the Mystery

Greetings crafty adventurer. Today the Lady Commander of Copics and I were in the village, getting an early start to our Christmas shopping, when we spotted a disturbance in the market square. A young woman was running amongst the baffled townsfolk screaming and shouting that she knew the identity of the present distributing fat man. My sister and I were privy to the true nature of Mr. Claus, however we knew he liked to keep his identity secret to preserve the mysterious nature of his present giving activities during the Winter Festival.

This tag was created for the reminder about the Just Some Lines November Challenge that is happening now! The theme this month is to use at least three different embellishments. Come play along with a JSL image for a chance to win a digi!

I started this tag by colouring the Just Some Lines “Em Joy” image using my Distress Markers. I then used the Lawn Fawn “Tag You’re It” dies to cut out the tag shape and the little reinforcement. The holly was stamped using the Lawn Fawn “Winter Gifts” set and also coloured using Distress Markers. I added some Glossy Accents on it for +20 bonus exp points. The sentiment I stamped is from the Unity “Naughty is the New Nice” kit. 

On the back of the tag I stamped the sentiment and “to” and “from” using the My Pink Stamper “Christmas Wishes” set. The Christmas lights I stamped using some cheap-o Recollections set and coloured in with Distress Markers.  

This ‘lil ‘ol tag will tie itself up in the following challenges:
There was only one thing to do - we had to silence the manic girl in the square. As Angela slowly drew her dagger from its sheath, clearly intending to take more drastic measures than I had in mind, I placed my hand over hers and shook my head. Staring intently at the girl shouting in the square, I muttered a few words under my breath, casting a Silence spell on her. At once she stopped yelling, looking confused. Slowly, the townsfolk started to go about their business, ignoring the young lady who was wandering back in the direction from whence she’d come.

~ Guild Master Crystal ~
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