Christmas Inspiration Board - DCWV and May Arts

Hello, hello! If this is your first time here, welcome! If you've visited before, welcome back! I'm excited to share with you my project for the DCWV and May Arts blog hop this week :).

I played with the Merry Memories stack by DCWV, as well as oodles of luscious ribbon from May Arts. I was going to make a garland, but I decided that all of the pretty tags I was making would make a great inspiration board.

I stretched two ribbons across chicken wire, then attached my tags with bullnose clips and binder clips. To embellish the various tags (cut from patterned paper and vellum from other DCWV stacks), I simply stapled bits of my favorite ribbons. I LOVE the texture ribbon adds, especially the silky gray ribbon and the mini pom pom trims!

I plan to leave this at my gift wrap station throughout the holidays. It will be easy to pull a tag off the chicken wire and add it to a gift bag or wrapped box.

I hope you enjoyed all the DCWV & May Arts projects this week! Be sure to visit the DCWV and May Arts blogs for more inspiration :). Have a fantastic weekend! Tessa

Halloween Framed Tags - DCWV Spooky Time Stack

This year for Halloween, my theme is Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven. I have decorated with ravens, feathers, and quotes from the poem alongside my pumpkins. I spiced up my living room gallery wall with photos from our recent pumpkin patch trip and decided to make this framed set of tags to go accompany my pictures and go along with my theme:

I used the Spooky Time stack by DCWV, as well as black cardstock by DCWV. Each tag is inked and/or stamped, as well as flicked with black mist. This particular tag also features the Gauze stack. Perfect for Halloween, I hand-cut leaves from the gauze-covered paper for my flowers. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the "nevermore". DCWV cardstock works great with this machine!

Three of the tags feature this cluster of a black feather, wood veneer feather, and small paper rose. The trio of black pearls is also by DCWV.

This orange flower is by Prima. The black flower is by Jolee's.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the raven shape, then adhered it with foam tabs. The eye is a DCWV black pearl.

If you're looking to decorate with a little Poe yourself, here is a graphic I made to slip inside one of my 4x6 frames in my gallery wall. Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by! Tessa

DCWV Hampton Arts Blog Hop

Hello! I am hopping with DCWV and Hampton Art today :). If you just happened upon the hop and would like to start from the beginning, please make your way here. If you've been hopping all along, you should have just come from the lovely Linda's blog. If you've managed to lose track, I have the hop listed below. At any rate, welcome! And on to the fun stuff - DCWV's Heirloom Christmas stack and Hampton Art stamps!

I have a group of three friends who are getting special gifts from me this Christmas, so I thought I would coordinate their gift wrap. The Heirloom Christmas stack and these Hampton Art Christmas stamps were a perfect match for some vintage-y tags:

The holly on this tag (and the slate-colored tag) is actually vintage. I love incorporating vintage finds in my papercrafting.

When I think of vintage, I tend to think of doilies (they are so trendy right now - how could you not?). So, each of my tags features a bit of doily that I used as a base for my stamping.

Jingle bells and twine make the tags even merrier. As well as a few splashes of red, white and black mist. I can't help myself :).

You have many more projects to see today, so I'll let you get on your way. Before you go, if you like what you see here, I encourage you to follow my blog. I post often and would love to see you back. Also, be sure to leave comments as you go - those comments could earn you prizes like this:

Comment by midnight, December 16th to enter. And be sure to hop with us again tomorrow as more designers take on the Heirloom Christmas stack and Hampton Art stamps with a modern twist. Have a fantastic day! Tessa

NEXT STOP: Beverly

Hop Beginning ( http://dcwvinc.blogspot.com/ )

Vivian Keh ( http://contadinak.wordpress.com/ )

Jan Garber ( http://scrapnsurprise.blogspot.com/ )

Dana Warren ( http://www.kraftpaperstamps.blogspot.com/ )

Hilde Stolk ( http://hildejanbroers.blogspot.nl/ )

Gini Williams Cagle ( http://www.ginicagle.blogspot.com/ )

Rita Barakat ( http://letsembellish.blogspot.com/ )

Linda Abadie ( http://lindaabadie.com/ )

Tessa Buys ( http://precociouspaper.blogspot.com/ )

Beverly Sizemore ( http://bevscreativepath.blogspot.com/ )

Karla  Der ( http://madebykarla10.blogspot.com/ )

Gloria Stengel ( http://www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com/ )

Amanda Philips ( http://oldenough2beakid.blogspot.com/ )

End of Day 1 ( http://blog.hamptonart.com/ )

A is for Apricot

For some reason, I pronounce the word "apricot" incorrectly. Instead of the long "a" sound, if I don't think about it, I say the short "a" sound. I must not have ever been corrected as a child and it just stuck. One of my favorite jams is the apricot jam my mother-in-law makes, and my husband has caught me quite a few times asking him if he wanted "aaahpricot" jam instead of "aypricot" jam on his pb&j. It's weird, I know. And now you know one of my many quirks. 

Anyway, the Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World is all about the lovely apricot:

I needed to make a white elephant gift for a party, so I pulled the orange and teal tones from the inspiration image to decorate a tag:

I clipped the doily to the bag so that whoever ends up with my gift can reuse the tag. The gift is an act of service rather than an object, so on the inside is a simple card with my gift and contact information. 

The wrapping is a simple brown paper bag, folded in half. The bag is easily reused, too :).

If you'd like to play along with the Moxie Fab World this week, here are the details. Thanks for stopping by! Tessa

Tag, you're it!

A new challenge is up at The Paper Variety and this one is right up my alley :).

I decided to make tags for the Mother's Day gifts I am making my sisters for Mother's Day.  Even though not all my sisters are mothers yet, they do want to be and I think it's important to celebrate them now :). 

I colored vintage text paper with Glimmer Mists, using a soft brush to blend the colors together.  I inked the edges and flicked some white paint. I really like the crisp white frames against the artsy background and I loved adding in some Prima and Crate Paper Emma's Shop details.

If you'd like to play along, you can find all the details here.  This week's sponsor is Artful Delight and you could win their fabulous May kit! Have fun getting messy and have a great day :). Tessa

P.S. - My winner from the Scrapbook Circle blog hop is Sara Zenger.  Sara, you should be contacted by Lisa soon! Congrats!