Christmas Wine Bottle Tags

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I have two Wine Bottle Tags to share today.  This first one as a beautiful pearlized heavy base, an embossed label and 3-d sticker with a silk ribbon bow.

The second Wine Bottle Tag is made similar to the above one, substituting twine for the silk ribbon and embossing the gold pearlized circle instead of the label.

These are as much fun to make as tags, and look SO pretty hanging on a bottle of wine for holiday gift giving.

Supplies:
Wine Bottle Tag die - Papertrey Ink
Labels - My Favorite Things
3-d stickers - K & Co
Silk ribbon - Papertrey Ink
Twine
Embossing folder - Stampin' Up
Pearlized card stock - Star Dream
White card stock

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Christmas Wine Bottle Tags

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I have a bunch of Holiday Themed Wine Bottle Tags to share today.  These first ones have a beautiful champagne pearlized card stock base - it's heavyweight and just lovely stuff.  I used some 3-d Tags from K& Co to decorate the embossed, die cut label.

This next one has an accordion embellishment that was in my 'Odds & Sods' pile. The tag base is the same card stock as above, only in red. I added a small tag to this one to write a 'to & from' onto.

The third one has a charcoal pearlized card stock base, and a chipboard house embellishment from my stash.

I penned the greeting with a gold marker and tied on some gold figure.

The last tag is a really simple one, using patterned card stock as the base and a stamped greeting.

(Wine bottle tag dies from Papertrey Ink and My Favorite Things)

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Thanksgiving Wine Bottle Hanger

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Elizabeth Craft Designs has a new double sided adhesive tape - in full sheets all the way through to smaller rolls.  They sent a sample to each of the Design Team members to play with but mine has not arrived yet. One of the joys of moving into a rural area is that ECD can no longer courier samples to me because of the outrageous cost. However, most of the design team has received theirs and everyone thinks it's a great product.

Because we are going to be in Arizona for a few more days, I placed an order for some of this new tape -- simply on the rave reviews of my fellow team mates.  I played with it yesterday and I understand what all the fuss is about.  This tape is strong but the liner is nice and thin so it die cuts easily. I can't wait to play with my ECD glitters with this tape, because it is transparent.  No more yellow cast to our glitter peel-off snowmen!

Today's post is a quick one -- a Wine Bottle Tag I made for Thanksgiving.

Stampin' Up Glimmer Paper is SOOO pretty - that is what I used to cut the two champagne glasses from and they sparkle and catch the light.

Supplies:
Wine Bottle Tag die - MFT
Champagne Glasses -  MFT
Cheers! stamp - Avery Elle?
Patterned paper - The Paper Studio
Sakura Gel Pen, Stardust

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Elizabeth Craft Designs October 2014 Designer Challenge

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It's Designer Challenge time at Elizabeth Craft Designs, and this month the Design Team was challenged to use the new 'Tags & More' tag dies for our project.  You will want to check out the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog (Click HERE) and see what everyone has come up with - these tags are SO versatile and everyone is having a lot of fun with them.  The dies cut just the top edge, so you can make your tag as long as you wish but they are good for more than just tags.

For my first project, I made a holiday Wine Bottle Hanger!

I cut two pieces of white card stock 3-1/2" wide and 8-1/2" long.  I held them together as one, and scored across one edge - the top edge - at 3".  Then I cut the rounded top using Tags & More Leaves. I used a circle die from the Circle Accordion set to cut the opening for the neck of the bottle, which conveniently got rid of the tag hole.

Still holding both tags as one, I trimmed the side edges even then used the Tags & More Lacy to cut the bottom edge, then the lacy insert at the bottom edge and again below the score line. I also cut a 3-1/8 x 2-3/4"  piece of green Shimmer Sheetz with the Tags & More Lacy die using a Metal Shim for a clean cut.

I added another scrap of green Shimmer Sheetz and the die cut one to the inside of one of the Wine Bottle Tags, then adhered the top one which sandwiches the Shimmer Sheetz between the two white bases.

I decorated the front and around the neck with Glitter Dots, and added a gold Peel Off Holly to a scrap of the green Shimmer Sheetz then fussy cut it out.

The gold Peel Off ornament was added to double sided adhesive and I burnished in red Silk Microfine Glitter before fussy cutting it out.  Then I added some Glitter Dots and popped it up on the Wine Bottle Tag.

As you can see in the photo, I added the tag to a bottle of gourmet Olive Oil instead of a bottle of wine - which would make a lovely hostess gift for the holidays!

For my second project, I used the Tags & More Leaves to create a gift card holder. I cut a piece of decorator paper 3-1/4 x 9-1/2", and scored down the short side at 5-1/2 and 8-1/2". You fold the tag at the 5-1/2 mark, then turn down the remaining piece at the score line creating a pocket with a flap.

I attached the sides together with white glue and set it aside to dry.

I added a strip of coordinating red patterned paper and a die cut Word Stand-Up Helper. It looks like it is wavy or wobbly, but it's actually the pattern in the paper.

I added another piece of coordinating paper to the front of a white paper gift sack, and tied the gift card holder onto the bag with heavy twine.  This was for our son's birthday, so I wanted something masculine.

Supplies for Wine Bottle Tag:
953 Tags & More 3 - Leaves, Elizabeth Craft Designs
951 Tags & More 1 - Lace, Elizabeth Craft Designs
2573 Christmas Ornaments Round Peel Off's in Gold, Elizabeth Craft Designs
SS0213 Green Metallic Shimmer Sheetz, Elizabeth Craft Designs
7018 Glitter Dots, Red - Elizabeth Craft Designs
614 True Red Silk Microfine Glitter, Elizabeth Craft Designs
769 Circle Accordion, Pop it Ups - Karen Burniston for Elizabeth Craft Designs (for Circle)
White card stock

Supplies for Gift Card Holder/Tag
Patterned paper - K & Co
Tags & More 3 Leaves, Elizabeth Craft Designs
937 Happy Birthday Stand Up Helper, Elizabeth Craft Designs
White paper gift bag
Twine

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Wine Bottle Hangers

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Today's share is a set of Wine Bottle Tags that I made for a friend.

I cut the champagne glasses from Stampin' Up Glimmer Paper, and added strips of the same glimmer paper to decorate the stamped panels.

Glimmer Dots make perfect 'bubbles'.  These tags looked so pretty all packaged up in a cello bag.

Supplies used:
Pattern paper - The Paper Studio
Wine Bottle Hanger die and accessories - My Favourite Things
Glimmer Paper - Stampin' Up
Wine Stamps - MFT
Cheers stamp - Stampin' Up
Glimmer Dots - Elizabeth Craft Designs

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Wine Bottle Hangers - Songbird Cheers

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I hardly know where to start. The day the movers arrived, our 3 year old Granddaughter was admitted into ICU at the Calgary Children's Hospital with a life threatening disease we didn't know she had.  Pulmonary Hypertension - rare in adults, even more rare in children. Especially a 3 year old. The disease has no cure, but we are hoping they can manage it with medication. She has now been moved into the cardiac unit at the Children's hospital where a team of cardiologists, as well as the ICU team can keep an eye on her. 

They are trying to get a bed at the hospital in Edmonton, as she will need a specialized test that they do there, but for now it's a waiting game. 

Our other daughter has in-laws visiting from Israel, and they all came to the new house yesterday afternoon. I am barely functioning, and certainly not able to make a decision as to where anything should go. They took over the kitchen and got all the stacked boxes unpacked with everything put away. Not where it maybe should go, or where it will end up. But done;  the boxes are in the garage and I'm so grateful to have a set up kitchen. 

I haven't made anything new, but had some posts scheduled so I will continue with them. ...

Today's share is an older project ... I made these last Fall, but haven't shared them yet. I love having Wine Bottle Hangers on hand to decorate a wine bottle we are bringing to friends when invited to dinner. They also make nice hostess gifts, when packaged up in cellophane ... maybe WITH a bottle of wine.  Just sayin'

Supplies used:
Wine Bottle Hanger die - My Favorite Things
Patterned paper - Songbird stack (DCWV?)
Red pearlized card stock - Star Dream
Sassy and Circle Labels, Pop 'n Cut - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Cheers! and Wine Glass stamps - Stampin' Up
Ribbon - from my stash
Self Adhesive Rhinestones - stash
Bakers twine

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Wine Bottle Hanger for Elizabeth Craft Designs

Good morning friends!

It's my day to post on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Blog, and I have a fun project to share today.  A Wine Bottle Tag!  I have wanted to make one of these for my ECD Post for a long time, so I was glad to finally get the chance to make one.

Packing up the studio for our upcoming move, I came across a few sheets of this pretty metallic card stock that I had painted a few years ago. I knew it would be perfect for a Wine Bottle Tag and the rest was easy!

I hope you will join me on the BLOG today to see my finished project!

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Christmas Wine Bottle Tag Trio

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Yesterday was a very exciting day, with the birth of our 4th Grandchild.  Baby Cohen joined us at 9:23 am and we are all just over the moon to welcome him into the family. Mother and Baby are doing well.  Our Son-In-Law, who just earned his PHD, sent me texts so I'd be 'in the loop.

The first one yesterday morning was "Born".

The second text was "Boy".

Men!!!!

I'm thinking he must have been speechless for the first time in his life.  Ha!

We came out to our cabin last night, just to get out of the house and get a break from all the renovation chaos. This company ... what a bunch of  ... well ... let's just say it's amazing that they are still in business.  OMG.  I checked the main bathroom Friday after the contractors left - it's upstairs and stairs are really hard for me to do.  I would have done it more often Friday if I'd known the number of screw ups.  The biggest one, is that they removed two bathroom drawers and attached - ATTACHED - false fronts. Really? They had to remove the tracks, there were openings cut into the cabinet - how could they not know these were supposed to be drawers? Never mind that their order sheet shows TWO DRAWERS.  That fix is going to take an entire day.

So next week - because they are so S*L*O*W they will have to come back next week - I will explain to them that they obviously need to be babysat, and I will have to go up and check on them every 1/2 hour or so. More fun times!

We ended up packing even more of the few kitchen dishes we'd left out, as it will be a week before I can have a functioning kitchen and then we will be days away from the move. Looks like we will be enjoying Take-Out or going to restaurants until after the move. We will pack up the rest of the kitchen when we get home tonight.

I'm so glad that we have a new baby in the family to bring the joy back into our life as these past 10 days with the contractors have not been fun.

Today's share is a project I love to make ... Wine Bottle Tags (Hangers).  I make sets of them for gifts, hang them on our bottles of wine to decorate the table during the holidays, and put them around gifts of wine, cider or gourmet olive oil.

These three were made before the holidays last year, but I didn't get the pictures shared. Thankfully I have a bunch of those pictures that will carry me through until I have a studio again and can make some new things!

Supplies:
Gold pearl card stock - Star Dream
Red pearl card stock - Star Dream
Embossing folders - Sizzix
Label Dies - MFT
3-d stickers - K & Co
Wine Bottle Hanger die - PTI
Bakers Twine

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'Cheers!' Wine Bottle Tags

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I made these for our middle daughter, and will wrap them up for her Christmas stocking. She is going to love the fresh colours, and the chalkboard motif patterned paper which is so trendy now.

I cut the different glasses from a lovely charcoal Star Dream, so they have a pearlized finished. The white banners were hand cut. I added a Glitter Dot to some of the glasses - you know I love those Glitter Dots!

Supplies used:
Wine Bottle Hanger die - Paper Trey Ink
Different glasses dies - My Favorite Things
Patterned paper - We Are Memory Keepers
Glitter Dots - 7018, Elizabeth Craft Designs
Charcoal Stardream card stock - stash
Cheers! stamp - Stampin' Up

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Four Wine Bottle Hangers

Good morning friends ... I'm going to 'cut and paste' my Facebook post here:

Yesterday's update on Dad wasn't very encouraging. They are still trying to figure out why he continues to have blood in his urine, and they sent him for a cat-scan this afternoon in case he bumped his head as well when he fell. The Dr. is concerned about how slow Dad's speech is and wants to be sure it's only the Parkinson's and not a brain injury. Dad was very groggy, and while he knew Mom and Glen were there, he wasn't really communicating. Tomorrow is another day.

 Today's share is a group of random Wine Bottle Hangers I made a couple of weeks ago ...

I know they don't match each other, but they won't be going to the same house at the same time anyhow.

This first one uses a Karen Burniston embossing folder and a segment of her coordinating border die. The black is actually charcoal grey Stardream, which has a beautiful pearlized finish.  I added a few flat gem stickers for some sparkle and shine.

I used another one of Karen Burniston's embossing folders for this 2nd Wine Bottle Hanger, stamping words on the blank label area. The die cut martini glass was outlined with a Sakura gel pen for some sparkle and I added more of the flat gem stickers to mimic bubbles. I know martini's don't bubble ... artistic license, you know.

On the third one, this music background paper is completely sparkly and shimmery. It was just a scrap leftover from another project and it fit perfectly on the Wine Bottle Hanger! The 'Cheers'  is by Stampin' Up ... I love that fun set.  Another die cut glass (MFT) and more sticker 'bubbles' on this one ...

On the final Wine Bottle Hanger,  I added strips of Glimmer Paper, as well as cutting the glass out of the same paper. LOVE how it looks, but I've said before how much I like the Stampin' Up Glimmer Paper. A staple in my studio now.

Supplies used:
Wine Bottle Hanger die, and glasses - My Favorite Things
Happy Hour stamp - My Favorite Things
Embossing Folder - Textured Impressions, Trellis & Swirls set (Trellis one used here) - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Chevron border die - Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Embossing Folder - Textured Impressions,  Sassy & Circle label set (Sassy Label one used here)    Karen Burniston (Sizzix)
Cheers stamp - Stampin' Up
Glimmer Paper - Stampin' Up
Flat gem stickers - Elizabeth Craft Designs


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Christmas Tag Wine Bottle Hangers

Good morning friends!

I made a bunch of Wine Bottle Hangers over the past week ... and today's share are the Christmas ones. 

The photos aren't the best - sorry about that. The patterned paper has lovely gold foil accents that don't show up.

The tags were cut from a sheet of paper in the same stack - and popped up with foam tape.  To finish them off I added a simple bow with Cherry Cobbler seam binding.

They are just simple hangers, but I'll feel good popping them on a gift of wine or cider over the holidays.

Supplies used:
Patterned Paper - DCWV
Seam binding - Cherry Cobbler, Stampin' Up
Foam tape
Wine Bottle Hanger die - MFT

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"Jolly" Wine Bottle Hangers

I have a quick post today ... wine bottle hangers I made last season but didn't get posted.

The base was die cut (PTI) from a beautiful, heavy weight gold shimmery card stock.

The pretty 3-D sticker is by K&CO, and I attached it over an embossed die cut label.

I've had a house-guest for the past week, so I'm not getting any studio time or even much time on the computer! We've been busy doing other things, but life will get back to 'normal' soon.

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