Rustic Christmas Tags for December Newsletter Tutorial

Well, I'm sure most of you have designed and created most of your Christmas cards already, and if you haven't there are samples galore on my blog, on Pinterest and all over the web for you to access. For my free photo tutorial for my December newsletter, I thought that you might enjoy some tag designs instead. These are a little out of the ordinary and would really work for masculine gifts, the ones we always struggle with.

I used several rustic and woodland stamp sets to make them and a palette of Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Copper and Whisper White, with a little Black thrown in. Very neutral except for the copper. Here are some closer looks:

This design uses the Nature's Beauty stamp set as it's basis with the doe image, some bushes and lots of snowflakes and copper trims. There is a little lace and some Sparkle Glimmer Paper to soften the rustic look a little, but not so much that it takes away from the woodland look.

This set relies on the Rustic Retreat stamp set in the Annual Catalogue. The cabin is stamped separately on a 2" Circle Punch piece mounted on the rest of the tag using Dimensionals. The back of all the tags have another greeting and a place to write who the gift is to and from.

The final design uses both the Merry Moose and the Rustic Retreat stamp sets. Although I've used the Moose Punch to punch out the moose and it's no longer available, the moose is very easy to hand cut if you don't have the punch. For all the tags I also made good use of the Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set for sentiments.

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Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Rustic Retreat Cling Stamp Set [150285] $33.00	Merry Moose Photopolymer Stamp Set [150494] $22.00	Nature's Beauty Cling Stamp Set [150528] $29.00	Itty Bitty Christmas Cling Stamp Set (En) [150513] $30.00	Gallery Grunge Cling-Mount Stamp Set [151275] $27.00
Sparkle Glimmer Paper [146957] $6.75	Copper Foil Sheets [142020] $6.75	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953] $12.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $13.00	Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636] $8.25
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] $8.25	Uninked Stampin’ Craft Pad & Whisper White Refill [147277] $13.00	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $10.25	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $10.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25
Stamping Sponges [141337] $7.00	Very Vanilla/Copper 1/2" (1.3 Cm) Classic Weave Ribbon [150394] $11.00	Star Designer Elements [150430] $12.25	Very Vanilla 3/8" (1 Cm) Scalloped Lace Trim [149593] $9.50	1/4" Copper Trim [144179] $8.25
Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.25	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053] $41.00	2" (5.1 Cm) Circle Punch [133782] $24.00	Moose Punch [150652] $24.00	Delightful Tag Topper Punch [149518] $31.00
Scalloped Tag Topper Punch [133324] $31.00	Classic Label Punch [141491] $24.00	Snail Adhesive [104332] $9.50	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $9.50	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Quick and Easy Merry Woodland Moose Card

This card was easy to make, cute to look at, but really hard to photograph so that you can see the details. The basis of it is a Whisper White panel dry embossed with the Woodlands Embossing Folder and embellished with the ornament from the *Merry Moose stamp set.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

Let's try a closer look with lower light to enhance the shadows:

• You can now see the birch trees embossed in the white cardstock more clearly which gives a bit of a snowy effect.
• The ornament from the *Merry Moose stamp set is just the right size to stamp in some of the flat areas hanging from some of the branches. I did 3 of them in Real Red ink, as the the Rule of Threes states that our eyes find 3 of something more attractive to look at.
• The sentiment is also from *Merry Moose and it just fits inside the Classic Label Punch. I mounted it on the card front using Mini Stampin' Dimensionals.
• I originally stamped the raccoon from the *Merry Moose set, with a jaunty red knit cap on his head and coloured him in with Stampin' Blends, but he just spoiled the white and red look of the card, so I didn't adhere him to it.

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

*Merry Moose Photopolymer Stamp Set [150494] $22.00	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [140272] $11.25	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100730] $13.25	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $10.25	Woodland Embossing Folder [139673] $11.50
Classic Label Punch [141491] $24.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $5.50

*New Products from the 2019 Holiday Catalogue, not available for sale until Sept. 4, 2019.