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Nutcracker Tags Made From the Kit

I knew I wanted this Nutcracker Tags Kit the minute I saw it in the Stampin’ Up! Online Store! I could tell the tags would be so cute for Christmas gifts and maybe even to make into a card. Each nutcracker image is printed and diecut in bright festive colors. To embellish them, just adhere pieces of their costume with Dimensionals to the tag. Tie them onto a background striped tag and all you have to do is write your “To: From:” on the back when you add them to a gift. No stamping is required. Just add the pieces, the sentiments, and tie the tags together with the black baker’s twine. The tags and sentiments even have gold glitter to make it look extra festive and high-quality.

The Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection is great for anyone to make! I had the opportunity to stamp with my great-niece and worked along with her as we made cards from three different kits and she could easily do it. In fact, after a little while she didn’t even want to follow the directions, she just wanted to make her own creation with the contents in the kit! And that’s fine! The Kit is yours! If you want to change anything or add any of your own products, like extra cardstock, just go ahead and have fun!

At this time, the Nutcracker Tags Kit is sold out. It says “Currently Unavailable” and you can add your email address for Stampin’ Up! to send you an email if and when they get more in stock. I hope they do get more in stock because I really do like this kit. You would still have time to order and make the kit if they are restocked in the next few weeks. I hope so!!

But if you did already purchase the Kit, this is your reminder to get it out and make the cute nutcrackers! Your gifts will look more luxurious and festive with these tags!

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Make the Easiest Christmas Tags!

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You know with the September-December 2025 Mini Catalog coming out last week it is a sign we are just about on the slippery slope to the holidays – fall and winter holidays! Once we start decorating there is no end until January! So it would be a good idea for all of us to get an early start on a few holiday preparations. I have some simple Christmas tags for you to start with!

Whether you are an experienced stamper or especially if you are new to all of this, I have something super easy for you to make! And it might be something we overlook in the new Holiday Mini because it isn’t as splashy on the page as some of the big Suites are! If you look on the bottom of page 15 you will find the Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Mix & Match Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The Christmas Tags & More is an amazing package of papers! Not only are there regular 6″ x 6″ sheets of designer series paper, but you also get two sheets of diecut holiday images as well as 8 sheets of cut-apart designs with which you can make tags and cards.

In the package you get 8 copies of this sheet with cut-apart designs to make tags or perhaps Christmas cards. The green and white plaid is the backside of the tag design.

Here are the other papers in the package and the backside.

PLUS you get two sheets of diecut holiday images that you can use along with the tags or on cards and other projects, not to mention scrapbook pages! The top two pages, in the photo below, are the two sheets each of the designs and the bottom page is the cut-apart tag or “whatever” page that you want to make with the images.

All in all you get 32 sheets, 8 each of 4 double-sided designs plus 4 sheets, 2 each of 2 single-sided precut designs. The colors are Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Real Red, Soft Sea Foam.

To make the easiest ever Christmas tags as I made in the top photo, start by cutting apart the six images of “tags” on one sheet.

-The tag with three stockings is only that – the tag with a “To” and “From” handwritten in the corners. I punched a hole in the top corner and put a red ribbon through it. The backside is already the green and white background. Done!

-The next tag with the Christmas tree is almost as simple. On the back, I punched and adhered a Basic White circle on which to write “To” and “From” and I embellished the tree with a few gold Traditional Sparkling Sequins. Just punch a hole and add some red and white baker’s twine.

-The tag with the candy canes has an extra layer of Real Red, cut the same size as the tag. I stamped the “To” and “From” on it from the Traditional Labels Stamp Set and ran the Real Red 1/2″ Shiny Ribbon through both tags.

-The tag with the red cardinal is the single sheet tag with no image on either side, just the plaid design on the back and the Real Red and Crumb Cake diagonal design on the front. With no planning whatsoever, I folded up the botton of the tag which shows off the plaid and makes a little smaller tag with the cute bird popped up on the front. On the back, I cut out a small square of Basic White cardstock on which to write the “To” and “From”. I tied a piece of baker’s twine through the hole in the top.

-And the last easy tag, a little more stepped up with the three ornaments, adds a stamped “Merry” on the front from the same stamp set and cut out by hand along the curve, then popped up on Dimensionals. I put a secone layer undeneath, the holly image, and actually adhered the two together on an angle to see both. You could use this as a tag or even make it the focal point of a card or adhere as an embellishment to a scrapbook page.

Just think how many tags you could make out of these eight sheets of the tag images! As I said, they aren’t exclusively for tags. They can be used on cards or scrapbook pages or decorations on gift bags, and more! Once you start paying with this Christmas Tags & More 6″ x 6″ Specialty Designer Series Paper, I bet you can’t make just one! You’ll find this in the new Mini Catalog!

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Christmas Ornaments Kit Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection

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Finally, I got my Christmas Ornaments Kit in the Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection made! I’ve kept the box out ever since it arrived weeks and weeks ago, and yet it didn’t get made until the pressure was on here at the last Christmas minute! The kit makes nine ornaments, three each of three designs, which I posted in the photo above. Unfortunately, the kit is “currently not available” in the Online Store, but maybe you already have the kit and haven’t made it. This is your reminder to get out that kit and sit down and enjoy making the ornaments! Or if you are too busy, get it out right after Christmas when you have more free time and make the kit. Then you’ll have them ready for next year!

The kit is called Christmas Ornaments, but you could use these for fancy gift tags on packages! If you were hand-delivering a card or mailing a card inside a package, maybe you could use this ornament as a card front! Then the recipient can take it off the card and use it themselves as an ornament or decoration.

Someone suggested jazzing up these ornaments a little bit! I plan to do that this afternoon in my “spare time”! Just as with the Paper Pumpkin Kits, people always think of other creative ways to use the kit and make “alternate” projects with the contents. So even though you are given directions and a video, you can still make your project differently, however you want to make it! Some of the suggestions I saw were adding a bit of gold or maybe some Wink of Stella glimmer. Paint on a bit of white for a snowy look on the pinecones. Add a greeting or another Christmas image on the ornaments. Six red bows are included in the kit but you can add your own bows to the other three ornaments if you wish. Just play around with the kit and do what pops into your head to make it your own!

The only difficult part of this kit is tying on the gold thread onto the gold hoop. The hoops are very nice, by the way. Strong and good quality. Use the included glue dots to put glue dots where the gold thread is going to go. You will see a little bump on each hoop, some barely noticeable, so you might want to wrap the thread around those areas if you can. Be sure to watch Sara’s video assembling the kit to see how she does it. You can watch it again and again or pause it to follow along with each step. Or just go wild and crazy and do it however you like, as I’ve said!

Watch the video below about the kit. As I said, if you have the kit but haven’t made it yet, now is the time!

Here is the kit in the Online Store that you can check out and keep an eye on in case they get more in stock.

While you are there, check out the other Kits in the Kits Collection! You can purchase a kit for yourself or get an extra one to make with a friend or loved one (I hear lots of grandmas do this for their grandchildren!). Maybe you just want to purchase a kit as a gift for a friend! Lots of variety to choose from! Enjoy!!

Make Christmas Tags With Paper Pumpkin!

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I don’t know what went wrong, but the post office seemed to deliver my November Paper Pumpkin Kit in a normal amount of time! Usually, it seems to sit in one place for a few days or it goes on a little trip to some other city first! But this time, I got it right away! And since Saturday was a very rainy, cold, chilly, dreary day, it was the perfect day to stay inside and work on my November Paper Pumpkin Kit, “From the North Pole”. In this kit were supplies to make three different kinds of Christmas gift tags, four of each design. I always like to start a Paper Pumpkin Kit by making what is designed so I made the three Christmas gift tags in the photo above!

This kit was extra-special because it had Mint Macaron glimmer paper! We’ve never known that to exist before! But there it was, in the Paper Pumpkin kit, sparkling away! It is very pretty.

These three tag designs were all very easy to make. Of course, visual directions are included plus a video you can watch on YouTube. I like to watch the video and see how they suggest making the project.

After I made the tags as designed, I made two things on my own, just to play. You can use the supplies any way you like! They are yours, so if you don’t need tags, just make cards. Or make the tags, but adhere them to cards. Of decorate a notebook and put the tag on the front of the notebook. Whatever you like.

I made these two alternative ideas, as they say:

I really liked how the Mint Macaron card turned out, even though it wasn’t looking too great in the beginning. I stamped the “Joy” in Cherry Cobbler and in Mint Macaron on one of the tags and added the greeting plus snowflakes and ribbon. The background of the card is stamped with the largest stamp in the set, the big round stamp with a reindeer That really made the card come alive.

The other little tag I made was almost the same, but I’d used the big snowflake on that card so I was short one. Instead, I used some Mint Macaron glimmer paper dots from the holes in the banner for one of the other tags to be an embellishment. I ran out of those so I just punched my own with a retired punch.

But in the end, I decided I really did like making those Christmas tags with my Paper Pumpkin Kit so I went back and made the rest. Of course, I was missing a few pieces since I’d made the two extra projects, but I just worked around it.

That’s the fun of Paper Pumpkin Kits that come in the mail each month! It’s so fun opening up the box to see what supplies are inside and think about what you can make with them. Paper Pumpkin projects just keep getting better and better over time!

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Quick & Easy Snowman Season Gift Tags

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Here are some Quick & Easy Snowman Season Gift Tags that you can make here at the last minute if you run out of gift tags (as we often do!). I suddenly realized I hadn’t made anything with a snowman this season and this Snowman Season Stamp Set is so cute! It’s been around a little bit so I thought I better use it before it retires, although I hope it stays a little longer! And perhaps you already have this in your inventory so it would be easy for you to copy. You’ll find it in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog on page 93. And notice the round tag on page 92, which, without seeing this page first, I was thinking of making a round tag like that one but I ran out of time to make one more!

The tag punch I used is retired but is very similar to the two tag punches Stampin’ Up! does carry right now, the Delightful Tag Topper Punch and the Fancy Tag Topper Punch. This type of punch is so handy to have so I recommend you have one kind or another in your supplies.

I just layered a piece of Basic White cardstock on the Balmy Blue and the Crumb Cake tag bases. The snowmen fit perfectly on this narrow piece. If you stamp with Memento Ink you can color in with Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers. Or you can stamp with Stazon and color in with Stampin’ Write Markers or some other coloring product, like Watercolor pencils or ink.

The first tag in the photo was the last tag I made. That’s where I was going to make the circle gift tag with dies but I already had this scalloped rectangle in the bag with Basic White cardstock so I just grabbed it and stamped on that piece, then layered it on Balmy Blue cardstock. Also, since I was short on time, I didn’t have any more time for coloring so I stamped the snowman and greeting in Balmy Blue ink and let it be monochromatic! Easy enough and looks just as good! I just punched a hole in the corner and tied on the ribbon.

The beautiful ribbon I used and went well with the snowmen I thought is the White 3/8″ Glittered Organdy Ribbon. It is a white sheer ribbon with a little glitter and glimmer in it! Really pretty!

Now that it is officially winter, I think the snowman gift tags are just perfect. For more ideas, check out the Snowman Season tags I made last year HERE.

Just a few more days until Christmas so make a few of these Quick & Easy Snowman Season Gift Tags just in case you need a few more gift tags at the last minute!

3″x 3″ Gift Tags

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If you are wrapping gifts right about now and you don’t have much time to stamp, for lots of fun I suggest making these 3″ x 3″ Gift Tags! On some presents, the hanging tags aren’t quite right or you’d like to write a little note, so make some of the gift tags or gift cards to enclose with your gift. You may even already have some 3″ x 3″ envelopes to put them in.

These are simply made with a 3″ x 6″ piece of any cardstock, scored at 3″ in the middle and folded to make the 3″ x 3″ card. Then embellish to your heart’s desire! I barely had to go to any work on these because I had some scraps, some greetings, some die cuts that I had made but hadn’t used just sitting on my table. All I had to do was make the card base and add some scraps of 2 3/4″ square designer paper or maybe just a strip, pieces from other designer paper that had already been cut out by hand or die-cut, and maybe a greeting or two! Add a few jewels if you like for some sparkle!

No need to go into the exact details of how I decorated these! I’m sure you also have scraps and pieces you can use or you can quickly stamp or cut some out! For sure these are super fun to make! I think you could make a ton of them in just half an hour or so!! If you want just a tag, just cut a 3″ x 3″ square of cardstock and write the “To: and From:” on the back of that. Punch a hole in the corner of these cards and put some ribbon or twine through to tie on your package unless you are using an envelope. Bet you can’t make just one!!

Make Snowman Gift Tags

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How about making some Snowman Gift Tags for your presents you may be furiously wrapping at the last minute?! Here are three ideas you can use! Everyone loves snowmen!

As I was wrapping my gifts, I came across the center Layered Snowman Gift Tag that I had made several years ago. Sometimes we save the tags from packages we open and I put them away until the next year. Then we can reuse them as long as we check the “To:” and “From:” on the tags so there are no mixups! I decided to update my snowman tag.

This is a fun tag to put on a package! Much better than those plain To & From tags you buy, 1000 in a package and have to tape on!

To make this tag, I die cut the largest circle in the Layering Circle Dies and then chose two smaller dies (about every other size) for the body and head. I sponged the edges with Balmy Blue Ink just a little and popped them up on Dimensionals. Just make a hat out of a piece of Basic Black and the brim with a piece from the Classic Label Punch with the ends cut off.

To decorate the hat I just cut a sprig from a Forever Flourishing Die and the three little Real Red flowers from a die in the Budding Blooms Dies. There are certainly a whole lot of other leaf shapes and flowers, whether die-cut, punched, or cut out by hand that you could use! I added the tiniest Gold Glitter Enamel Dots to the flower centers.

The snowman face I just drew on with markers. The ribbon is Seaside Spray Metallic Ribbon to represent the snowman’s scarf. Punch a hole in the top if you want to tie on a ribbon for a tag or even just use the snowman as a decoration on a package!

This Snowman Season tag is really easy since it just uses one ink color, Balmy Blue. First I made a tag out of Balmy Blue Cardstock with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and then added a layer of Whisper White. I stamped the one snowman from Snowman Season in Balmy Blue and added the “To: From:” at the bottom. I used the Silver 3/8″ Metallic Edge Ribbon for the tie (one of my all-time favorite ribbons!).

This tag I made a little fancier since the other two were pretty simple. But this one is still simple! I just cut a 3″ x 4″ rectangle of Balmy Blue Cardstock and layered with a piece of Whisper White. The snowman from Snowman Season is stamped with Memento Ink and I did the little bit of coloring with various colors of Stampin’ Blends, even a tiny bit of Balmy Blue around the sides of the snowman for shading and to look a little cool and icy. I also just scribbled some Balmy Blue under the snowman to look like snow. Some glitter would have been nice, too! The snowflakes are stamped from the set and the greeting is from the set. I cut the words out separately after stamping so I could arrange them on the tag. Then I added some Adhesive-Backed Snowflakes (which may be sold out now but you can use other gems and jewels!) for a little more bling!

Once you get started making tags, you might not be able to stop because you will come up with more and more ideas and they don’t have to be fancy! If your packages are wrapped already, you might consider having fun stamping and making tags for next year AFTER Christmas when you maybe have some free time! These Snowman Gift Tags are fun and easy to make and the gift recipient will likely enjoy them!

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Tag Archives: Christmas gift tags

Nutcracker Tags Made From the Kit

Make the Easiest Christmas Tags!

Christmas Ornaments Kit Stampin’ Up! Kits Collection

Make Christmas Tags With Paper Pumpkin!

Quick & Easy Snowman Season Gift Tags

3″x 3″ Gift Tags

Make Snowman Gift Tags