Hello there crafty friends I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your loved ones! I am ao very grateful for you! Thank you for taking the time to stop by and check out today's blog.
I am creating an easy handmade gift using The Rabbit Hole Designs' Baby's First Christmas stamp set (an Agota Pop Illustration) and a few items form my stash. I love this cute stack of presents. I think they're so festive for the holiday season. I am making a pair of holiday earrings!
I grabbed some frosted shrink plastic and a 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" tag die from my stash to die cut the two shapes for the earrings (These will shrink down to 7/8" x 1 3/8" creating a mini tag). I die cut a tag out of cardstock to use for a positioning template.
I placed the cardstock tag template in my Stamp Wheel. I added a small strip of lowtack tape at the top face down to help release the tags after stamping. I placed the cardstock tag in the template to position and stamped the image in the tag. I removed the cardstock tag and place the shrink plastic tag in the opening and inked up the image with StazOn ink. I repeated this step with the second shrink plastic tag.
I used OLO Markers to color the present images on the frosted side of each tag. To heat shrink the plastic tags, I use a wood cutting board with a piece of heat resistant grilling screen. The screen is clamped on one corner, but it helps to hold the plastic in place when I shrink it with the heat gun. Make sure to heat the plastic evenly. It curls up when it shrinks, but it will eventually flatten back out into a smaller version of the tag shape.
The earrings are made by adding the following: 2 small red jingle bells, 2 large silver jump rings, 4 small silver jump rings, 2 sterling silver earring clasps. I made two small organza bows with 1/4" frosted organza ribbon. I glued a bow on each tag just below the tag hole and attached the large silver jump ring to the tag hole. I attached each earring clasp to a small jump ring and then to the large jumpring on each of the tags. I used the second small jump ring to attach a jingle bell to the large jump ring on one of the the tags to complete each earring.
I think these are so adorable and make perfect to give that power-shopper in your life!
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