Christmas wine bottle tag

I love to create tags to attach to wine bottles when giving these as gifts.  I think it just makes it more personal when you go to a dinner party, and they are also great as just gift tags too.

Here is a wine bottle tag that I made to co-ordinate with this card...

Why not knock up a few of these as you are bound to need them over the Christmas season :).

Butterfly bottle tag

I just love to find a reason to make something other than a card.  Today I wanted to share with you one of the tags we made at my accessories class earlier this month.  I tend to use these as wine bottle tags but they will also work on large presents :).

The base is actually a large white parcel tag, which you can pick up at most stationery shops.  I have then cut a piece of DSP from the 'Brights' collection slightly smaller than the tag to create the background.

For the embellishment background I have punched a scalloped circle from mirror card (not Stampin' up!) and then embossed a 1 3/8 inch circle, punched from some Shimmery White cardstock, with the Elegant Bouquet embossing folder using my Big Shot machine.

The butterfly is the 'All a Flutter' stamp on page 15 of the main catalogue inked with Chocolate Chip onto a scrap of DSP (pink).  I love this stamp... and it's a complete bargain at only £5.95.

The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and has been inked with Regal Rose onto Whisper White and punched out with the Word Window punch... you can use whatever wordingi s appropriate for the occassion here really.



Dinner invite

I've been working in Cambridge for almost 2 weeks now... and have found somewhere to live too (during the week when I am here) now, although I don't get the keys until the 30th!

The evenings have been a little depressing, as I don't really know many people here properly yet... but on Thursday night I had an invite to dinner with the MD and his partner.  And what a lovely evening it was too - lovely food, company and some real laughs with his daughter and her friends!

Anyway, the point of sharing this with you is because I had to make a quick wine bottle tag to attach to the gift of wine that I got to say thank you to them.

It uses the new Charming stamp set that was released in the Spring Mini catalogue.  Sorry the picture is a little blurry... but I was in a rush to get myself out the door at the time :).

The details/mensions are:

- Crumbcake cardstock measuring 7.5 x 21cm, score at 7.5cm's and punch out a 1 3/8" circle.  I've also punched a scalloped circle from Rich Razzleberry card and then punched out the middle with the circle punch to add round the hole.

- Decorative circle stamp inked with Rich Razzleberry, stamped across the tag and then basic rhinestones added in the middle.

- Another Rich Razzleberry scalloped circle and Whisper White circle for the sentiment (from the Teeny Tiny Wishes) inked with Rich Razzleberry.

Bottle tags

Tick tock... Christmas is nearly here! I'm planning to put my tree up for just a few days before I depart for my holiday... although I'm not celebrating this year. I have to see it in all it's glory in my house as it will be the first year that I have been here, now that the building works are all complete and it only seems right :).

Anyway, now for some gift related ideas...

I've posted a couple of ideas for bottle tags before, but these are so easy to make and there are so many ways to decorate them using Stampin' Up! products. 

As the festive period is fast approaching there will be plenty of occasions when one of these lovely tags can be used to decorate a bottle of vino for a friend or relative...

The dimensions are as follows:

Cardstock measuring 7.5 x 21cm

Score at 7.5cm's

I have used Basic Black cardstock for this tag and then cut a piece of brights DSP and mounted a panel of Whisper White stamped with the 'large flower' image from the Just Believe stampset in Old Olive.  Note that I have stamped the flowers on a scrap of Whisper White in Tempting Turquoise and then cut these out and raised them with a dimensional sticky pad.

Before fixing the panel to the tag I have punched out the corners of the DSP with the Boho Blossoms punch (middle sized flower) with one of the petals, I love this technique and use it all the time.  To finish a few Basic Rhinestones in the gaps created by the punch and a sentiment (also from the Just Believe stampset) inked in Old Olive.

Bottle of something

I thought I would share a wine bottle tag idea with you today ... this can be adapted for a male/female/couple/etc as appropriate.  I have used the Clearly for You stamp set ladybird stamped in Chocolate Chip ink in the background (Crumbcake base card), then coloured with Rich Razzleberry ink using a blender pen.  The birds image has been stamped in Chocolate Chip with the 'for you' sentiment, all from the same stamp set and then punched with a circle punch before being mounted on a scalloped circle.

This stamp set is great for both male and female cards and gifts as it includes a variety of images:

Check out page 66 of the catalogue for more.

To order this stamp set or anything else from the catalogue contact me.

Wine bottle tag with scraps

You can make this wine bottle tag using scraps of cards.  I love using these for when going along to dinner parties as it just adds that little extra to turning up with a bottle of vino :).

Materials:
Every Little Bit stamp set (120558);
Chocolate Chip ink pad(100908);
Rich Razzleberry marker pen (120970);
A4 smooth cardstock - Crumbcake (121685);
A4 smooth cardstock - Rich Razzleberry (119981);
A4 smooth cardstock - Old Olive (106576);
Boho Blossoms punch (119858);
Two-step Bird punch (117191);
*3.5cm circle punch (119860);
Rich Razzleberry striped grosgrain ribbon (retired);
Stampin' dimensionals (104430);
Basic Rhinestones (119246);

I have stamped the image randomly over the Crumbcake cardstock using the Chocolate Chip ink pad.  Then I have used a 4.4cm circle punch in the centre of the top part of the tag to create the hole to put over the bottle neck.

The flowers are punched from the Boho Blossoms punch and 2 sets of leaves from the 2 step bird punch.

Finish off with a length of ribbon tied in a bow, stick down using small strips of sticky strip.  I've used some retired ribbon but there are plenty of new ribbons in the new catalogue which will work just as well.