Introducing Suzi

One of the latest Julie Nutting Paper Doll stamps from Prima is Suzi. I got a little creative and took this beach babe to Asia!

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Supplies:

Stamp - Julie Nutting Paper Doll "Suzi" by Prima Marketing
Word stickers - Tim Holtz
Flowers and Mosaic Chips - Recollections
Prima Marketing Watercolor pencils
Patterned Paper - Best Creations Inc.
Origami Paper
Gold Sharpie
Momento Ink

Free Spirit Tag

I was inspired by a tag by Gabrielle Pollacco - you can find the original here:
http://www.bobunny.blogspot.ca/2012/07/tag-youre-it.html

Here is my version:

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Supplies:

Paper - DCWV
Cardstock: Bazzil
Dies: Tim Holtz and Cheery Lynn
Stamps: Hot Off the Press
Ink: Stampin Up
Ribbon: American Crafts

Ski Tag

BoBunny comes out with some of the best winter paper collections. I'm always eager to see their new designs, and Powder Mountain didn't disappoint.

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 For this tag I used different papers in the Powder Mountain line, including fussy cutting the ski's out of one of the patterns. Adding a Julie Nutting Paper Doll and this is a great winter tag!

Supplies:

Paper - BoBunny Powder Mountain
Donna Salazar Glitter
Ink - Stampin' Up and Momento
Stamp: Prima Marketing/Julie Nutting
Prima Marketing Watercolor Pencils
Doodlebug Designs Velvet Flock
Recollections Pearls and Ribbon

Wild about the birthday boy

As a parent of a grade school boy, I end up attending a good number of little boy birthday parties. Well, little boys don't really care about home made cards, if they care about cards at all. So, instead of making cards I decided to keep it simple and just make some cute birthday tags to attach to gifts.

Here's the first:

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Supplies:

Cardstock - Bazzil and Stampin Up
Crafters Workshop Stencil
Stamps and Ink - Stampin Up
Die - Cheery Lynn Dies
Ribbon - American Crafts

October 31st is Halloween - Tag

Another cute Halloween tag to add to your gift packages as we wrap up Halloween Week here on the Cafe Blog. Thank you everyone for checking out our Halloween projects this week. Fear not, there will be more Halloween projects to come before we wrap up October! Happy Haunting.

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Supplies:

Paper - Stampin Up and Echo Park Dots & Stripes
Sizzix Pumpkins Die
Martha Stewart Spider Edge Punch
Stamps - My Mind's Eye
Inky Antics Gamsol Odourless Mineral Spirits
Ribbon - unknown

Halloween Gift Tag

Giving out treats at Halloween isn't just isolated to the kids in costumes. Sometimes you might want to make batches of goodies for friends, family, neighbours or co-workers. What a better way to finish off your present than with a Halloween gift tag using my new favourite obsession - Prima Mixed Media Doll stamps by Julie Nutting.

This project is out for publication.

Supplies:

Paper - Stamping Up and Me and My Big Ideas
Stamps - Prima Mixed Media Doll (Valentina) by Julie Nutting and My Minds Eye "Lost and Found - Halloween"
Silhouette Cameo
Inky Antics Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits
Ribbon - unknown

Prima Paper Doll Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the Scrapbooking Cafe Prima Paper Doll by Julie Nutting Blog Hop, and thanks to all the hoppers who are joining us to share their projects. You are at stop #1.

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For this tag I mixed a great paper line with some glitter and a die to make a beautiful butterfly doll. If you like it, please leave us a comment and don't forget to subscribe to our blog by clicking the "Join this site" button.

Now let's keep the fun going and head over to visit Amy at Stop #2 »

Blog Hop Participants

Scrapbooking Cafe <----------- You are HERE
Amy
Laura
Czarownica
Susan

Supplies

Prima Paper Doll Stamp by Julie Nutting
Sentiment Stamp by Hot off the Press
Paper - DCWV Black Currant Stack
Martha Stewart Glitter
Spellbinders Tag Die
Cheery Lynn Butterfly Die and Angel Wing

Beautiful Fall - Prima Paper Dolls and Paper Doll Blog Hop Sign Up

More new supplies to play with brings more new projects! I have been resisting the Prima Paper Dolls by Julie Nutting trend for a long time thinking I had no idea how I would use them. But seeing other great projects online inspired me to pick one up - and once I started the ideas began to flow and now I can't wait to get more.

Here's my first Prima Paper Doll project - a great fall tag I plan to use on a nice little thank you gift!

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Prima Paper Dolls by Julie Nutting Blog Hop Details

The Scrapbooking Cafe Online Blog will be holding a BLOG HOP from September 29th to October 6th featuring Prima Paper Dolls by Julie Nutting. Let's have some fun and share all of our creative projects featuring these great Paper Doll stamps, increase traffic to your blog and maybe make some new online scrapbooking friends.

What you create is up to you - tag, layout, card, art journal page, mixed media canvas, wherever your imagination takes you. The only criteria is that your project must feature one of the Prima Paper Doll products by Julie Nutting.

If you'd like to sign up for our blog hop, please leave a comment here and we'll add you to the list (limit 12 participants). Prima Paper Doll projects will need to be completed no later than 5pm on Friday, September 26th so all of our participants can be provided the participant list and links for posting.

We hope you'll join us for our first BLOG HOP!

Supplies:

Prima Paper Doll "Eleven" by Julie Nutting
BoBunny Forever Fall paperline and label embellishment
Bo Bunny Stitches Stamp
Liquid Pearls in Bisque
E6000 Spray Adhesive
Memory Box Die
Just Rite Stamps (Sentiment)
Tonic Studios butterfly punch

Fall is in the air

I love the fall season! I love the temperature. I love the colours. I love Thanksgiving and Halloween. And I love pulling out all my favourite fall paper lines and playing with projects.

Today I got to play with some new supplies - A sunflower stamp from Stampendous and some new markers.

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Tags are such a great way to play with your new supplies on a small canvas - and when they're done, you can use them on all sorts of things - birthday gifts, thank you gifts, a nice bottle of wine hostess gift, you can put them on layouts or add them to a card! I just use some cardstock and a hole punch to make the tag base - fast, easy, and I can make it any size or colour I need.

Supplies:

Bo Bunny - Forever Fall Paper
Bazzil Cardstock
Stampendous Sunflower Stamp
Ranger Embossing Powder - Copper
Crafters Workshop templates
Heartfelt Creations Text/Script Stamp
Spellbinders Hexagon Dies
Stampin' Up Blendabilities Markers (although you could also use Copics)
Brads - unknown
Basic Grey Ribbon

And now "TAG....You're It!". We want to see some of your great tag creations, so dig out your supplies - new and old - make some tags and share them here! 

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Ho Ho Holiday Day 6

Well it's my turn to post another Holiday tag.  I only have one to tag to post today. I thought I'd have a little fun and turn the tag on it's side and put a tiny banner across it.  Again I used a plain manilla tag from Staples

Materials

Paper-Winter Wonderland-My Mind's Eye

Stamps-Ho Ho Ho-There She Goes

Four tags!

Hello it's Anita gain with more tags to share!  I am really enjoying this week!  Have you wrapped all your gifts yet?  Me not so much, that would require having finished buying them all, although I am more than half way done!  :>  Today my tags are super easy!  I am sure you have some sets that have tags in them like me, I noticed today that my Hero Arts Basic Grey Set Happy Holidays had a tag in it so I decided to heart emboss it with white powder onto paper from Echo Park's Very Merry Collection!  These are easy tags so I made 4!

I added some buttons and twine from this Christmas Doodle Twine Collection, it's perfect for Christmas cards and tags!

Hope you have a great weekend!  :>  We have a busy Sunday but thankfully not tonight or Saturday!  :>  I plan to get started on wrapping gifts tonight!  :>

Leaping Reindeer Tag!

Hello it's Anita and I am really happy to be here and share a tag during our Ho Ho Tag Week!  :>  I hope you've been inspired all week with the tags we have been sharing because I have!  Today I have a tag to share using Memory Box's Leaping Deer die and Echo Parks Very Merry Christmas Collection!

I cut the paper from the pad to 2 3/4 inchs by 3 1/2 inches and than I rounded the corners, heat embossed the Joy sentiment from a Hero Arts set added another strip of patterned paper and than some lace!  Popped the deer up with foam adhesive by Scrapbook adhesive.  Turned him into Rudolf with the red gem!  :>  

Well I think this is my second tag made this Holiday season, only a dozen or so left to go!  I shall be back tomorrow with another!

Ho Ho Holiday Tag Week: Day 3

When I heard we were doing a tag challenge I was thrilled!!  I love tags, love to make them and love to pin them!! I cannot get enough!  So what a thrill to have an entire week of TAGS!  Ok I'll calm down now and show you what I've been working on...

I bought a big box of manilla tags from Staples about 2 years ago and I"m still using the same box.  Although I only have about 10 left. :)  Because there's little space to decorate I tend to use up my scraps.  I love being able to use up all those little bits of pretty paper I can't bare to throw out.

Materials
Paper-Winter Wonderland-My Mind's Eye
Stamps-Holly Jolly-There She Goes clear stamps
Punches:Snowflakes and holly-Martha Stewart

If you see something you just have to have let Kristy know and she'll get it in for you :)

Ho Ho Holiday Tag Week: Day 2

Ho Ho Ho! It's Becky back again with some more Holiday tags to share. Today I've made some quick and easy gift tags. I used my Cricut Expression and the Simply Charmed cartridge to cut out some cute stockings and mittens out of some fun patterned papers from the Echo Park This & That Christmas Collection.

I stamped a little to: and from: on the top of the tag and tied some brown bakers twine in the corner.

They are so quick and easy to make with the die cut machine, I made 6 of each!

Thanks for stopping by today. Remember we are sharing holiday tags every day this week so check back daily for more inspiration!

Have a great day!
~Becky

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Ho Ho Holiday Tag Week: Day 1

Hi Friends!  The Scrapbooking Cafe DT has something special to share with you this week. All week long we are going to be sharing Christmas Tag ideas with you!

I'm first up and I have a fun tag to share with you that I made using Echo Park's This & That Christmas Collection

I started off with a piece of white cardstock that I embossed with a stripy folder. You could use the Candy Cane embossing folder from Cuttlebug. I layered bits and pieces from the Echo Park kit on top. I added a die cut of the smaller doily from the Doily Duo by Die-namics

I finished off the tag with some red bakers twine, some buttons and a big fun bow! You could use this tag on a card, a layout or use it as a gift tag on a special package...it could even hang on your tree like an ornament!

That is all for me today, but make sure you stop by every day this week for some great taggy inspiration just in time for the holiday.

Merry Christmas!
~Becky
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Fabulous Fall layout

Here we are on another lovely holiday Monday. This holiday has been brought to us by the brave men and women who fought for the freedom we enjoy today; and for that I am truly thankful. Lest we Forget.

Last week I shared a tag with you, if you missed that post, you can check it out here.  This week, I promised that I would show you what I decided to do with it. So here it is...

I made a pretty simple layout because I wanted the photo to stand out. I started with the base wood grain paper from My Minds Eye and then mixed some Simple Stories papers from their 6x6 pads. I used Harvest Lane and FabUlous.

See that wood grain brad and orange button below the tag? Well they are both covering up seams where I had to piece papers together.  I just love the smaller patterns that come in the 6x6 pads but obviously the papers are too small to go the length of a traditional 12x12 layout. That's OK! I just cut two strips and overlapped them slightly. I used the embellishments to cover up the seams so they are not so noticeable. The orange damask paper is also two pieces from a 6x6 pad, but the tag covers up that seam...easy peasy!

Scrapbooking Cafe Supplies used:
wood grain background paper-My Minds Eye
Harvest Lane-Simple Stories
FabUlous-Simple Stories
wood grain brad-My Minds Eye
for tag supplies see blog post here
other supplies used:
misc buttons
hemp twine
tags-Elle's Studio

Have a happy week!

~Becky

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Bird Cage gift tags

The minute I saw the bird cage die from Poppy Stamps Dies I knew I had to have it.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do when I got it but I just had have it.  So today I was inspired to use the die and make some Christmas tags with it.  So I die cut and inked them with Antique Linen by Ranger and started decorating with the Winter Wonderland paper pad by My Mind's Eye.  I had some left over Poinsettia pieces (Spellbinders) and some snowflakes (Martha Stewart).

Materials

Paper-Winter Wonderland-My Mind's Eye

Ink-Antique Linen-Ranger

Dies-Carousel Bird Cage-Poppy Stamps Dies, Poinsettia-Spellbinders

Punches-Snowflakes-Martha Stewart

Fabulous Fall tag

I can't believe it is November right now! It is an absolutely gorgeous day here. As I type this it is currently 16 degrees and the sun is shining! I am a little late getting my post up today as I just had to take advantage of this glorious weather and I took the littles for a walk in our community forest.

With this beautiful weather, I just can't get into the Christmas spirit quite yet so I have another fall project to share with you. Today I made this cute little tag...

I used a manila tag from my stash as the base and added a piece from the Harvest Lane 6x6 pad from Simple Stories on top. I distressed the edges with some Vintage Photo distress ink.

This tag came together really quick because I just layered up a bunch of stickers from the Harvest Lane 12x12 Sticker sheet and added a fabulous 'Fabulous' die cut from the Pink Paislee Portfolio Ephemera..

I haven't quite decided what I am going to do with this tag yet, but I have some fall photos of my kiddos that still need scrapping so I think I might use it on a layout.

Check back next week to see what I use it on...

Scrapbooking Cafe supplies used:
Harvest Lane 6x6 pad-Simple Stories
Harvest Lane 12x12 Fundamentals Stickers-Simple Stories
Fabulous die cut-Pink Paislee
Vintage Photo Distress Ink-Tim Holtz
Foam Ink Applicator-Adirondack + refills
Tiny Attacher-Tim Holtz
Brown Bakers Twine-Doodlebug
Glue Dots
other supplies used:
hemp twine
lace ribbon
buttons
manila tag

I hope the weather is sunny where you are!

Have a great week

~Becky

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Butterfly Tags

Hi everyone Melyssa here with my first post of the month.  I'll taking the Wednesday spot for the next 6 months. To start off how about a little about me.  I live in Truro, NS with my son and husband of 19 years and I started scrapbooking about 11 years ago then turned to card crafting for the last 4 years.

Today's card features the Darla Butterfly die from Memory Box and Tear Drop circles from Spellbinders. Paper-Miss Caroline-My Mind's Eye

Thankings for stopping by!