Thank Moo tag

Good Morning everyone

Today I have a little tag I made for my brother which I added to some beer and chocolate to say thank you for running me to hospital and back

I had this cow stamped out from a previous project, she was stamped in navy ink onto cream, I added a little more colour by watercolouring with distress inks and then cut her out.  Yes she is a she as she looks like my dads old cow noddy with her tongue stuck out😁 and yes female cows can have horns, naturally they have horns so they can protect their young, although these days they are usually de-horned as calves which I think is why many think only the males (Bulls) have horns

In my scrap drawer I found a blue tone and soft green tone paper which I die cut with a smaller tag, i then tore the edges of the green paper to give a grass like effect and added to the bottom of the blue.  All edges inked with stormy sky distress ink.

I added the cow into place with pinflair glue gel.  The sentiment is a mix of 2 different stamps, one said happy birthday to moo, so i added tape over the part of the stamp I didn't want, inked up, removed the tape and stamped, so I got a clean crisp 'Moo' I then did the stamp with a Thank you stamp, masking the 'you' with tape, inking up, removing tape and stamping next to the 'moo'

I punched a hole and added some bakers twine to finish

On the back of the tag I added a pocket using a piece of the green paper used on the front, i cut it to size, inked the edges and then added glue to the bottom and two sides only, leaving the top adhesive free.  This allowed me to add a little fuel money in for my brother as well.  A gift card would also fit nicely in this little pocket.

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamp SOLO180 'Portrait de Vache'

Sentiment stamps

Tag dies

Distress Inks - peacock feathers, stormy sky, dried marigold & wild honey

scraps of patterned paper

CraftUk ltd cream cardstock

Thank you all for popping by today. Start of the summer holidays now so will be getting some crafting in with my nieces hopefully. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://tag-alongandatc.blogspot.com/2025/07/july-in-gardenag.html

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https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/07/atg-using-pretty-patterned-paper-july.html

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https://girlzmakesguyzcards.blogspot.com/2025/07/challenge-29-alles-mag-mannen-anything.html

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https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2025/07/challenge-180-masculine.html

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Squirrel tag

Good Morning everyone

Its not often I make a tag but I decided to join in with the first challenge over at  Tag along & atc

I used these fun squirrels from aall&create and built up a little scene.

Tag size approx A6 (6x4")  I die cut the largest die from cream cardstock and then the next size down from white card I'd sprayed with blue and green inks, the blue one is pearlised, keeping it more blue at the top for the sky and green at the bottom for grass.  Once dry I stenciled a little detail with stormy sky distress ink and stamped some text with forest moss distress ink.

I stamped the branch direct onto the tag, stamping one side and then the opposite.  I stamped the squirrels, leaves & acorns onto white card, watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out.  I then got arranging it all, adding the squirrels and acorns with pinflair glue gel.  To give the squirrels some ground to stand on, I added a scrap of the inked card to the bottom of the tag with foam pads, inking all the edges with stormy sky distress ink.

I stamped the quotes from the set onto off cuts of cream card, cut out and adhered to the front. 

Raiding the ribbon box I found a satin orange ribbon, gold organza and blue lace which matched the colours perfectly.  I punched a hole in the top of the tag and added an eyelet and then threaded my ribbons.

I have a bottle of range matt accents - had it for over 10yrs, so trying to use it - i usually use glossy accents.  Anyway this matt accents is weird as it does leave a shine once dry but its matt - difficult to explain and even more difficult to photograph😁.  Anyway I added that to the acorns to finish.

Items Used

aall&create stamps #290 'squeaky friends' #851 'rise&shine'

aall&create stencil #167 Organic orbs

Stitched tag dies

Derwent Inktense pencils

TH Distress Inks 'stormy sky, forest moss'

Cosmic shimmer airless misters 

Ranger matt accents

Do hop over to tag along & atc to join in and support this new challenge. Emma 

Id also love to join in 

https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/05/challenge-219-ag-no-patterned-paper.html

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https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/05/pinspirational-challenge-325-may-party.html

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https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2025/04/deep-in-forest.html

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