Happy Saturday! Time to wakey wakey and rise and shine – have some coffee and catch up on the 24 tags of Christmas from this week if you’ve missed any! Be sure to comment on the blog posts to qualify to win one! The tags in this video are distressed – but with colored pencil. Don’t believe me? Check it out!
Video
Watch the video below or click HERE to see it in HD on YouTube.
The distressing technique works on cards too!
I might be the first person to distress with colored pencils – if you know someone else doing this, let me know!
24 Tags of Christmas 2018
Each year I make 24 tags – and give them away in a random drawing! This year I’ll be trying things a little differently; in the past I picked 2 people from YT comments and 2 from blog comments….but I found a lot of the YT folks never came to find out they won, and I had no idea how to reach them in many cases. So…this year, it’s all about blog comments where I can at least reach out to winners! So leave comments on each blog post this week for the opportunity to be in the drawing!
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- Holiday Helpers, Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps
- Say What? Gift Tags, Lawn Cuts Dies
- Prismacolor pencils: EH – BLICK
- Prismacolor Hex Chart
- Quietsharp Pencil Sharpener: BLICK – AMZ
- Stonehenge Drawing Paper: AMZ – BLICK
- Blending stumps: EH – BLICK
Love all your tags and the detailed tips you like to give…
Sandy, you always come up with something new and beautiful! I saw took a class with you a few years ago at Buffalo Stamps and Stuff and have loved following you ever since!
These are so cute! I was surprised to see you do a coffee theme instead of hot chocolate. I had no idea you could distress with color pencil, I love that. I always learn something from your videos. Thanks Sandy, I really enjoyed the series.
Love the distressed look of these fun tags!
Great tips and great assortments of tags! Thnaks a bunch!
Love these tags. I tend to pull out my Copics most the time so it’s ncie to be reminded to pull out the color pencils too.
These tags are great. Thanks for showing your destress technique
Such cute coffee tags. I need to get my colored pencils out more and use them. The 24 tags of Christmas was a lot of fun. Thanks.
always learn something from your videos. keeps me coming back. thanks as always for sharing.
These tags are so cute! I just love seeing what you do with the stamp sets.
Very cute Hadn’t thought of distressing with pencil. It works.
Fun technique with the colored pencil distressing!
These tags are so cute!! I had never thought of distressing with my colored pencils. I’ve never seen anyone do that before. Thanks for sharing!
Cute elves and coffee – the perfect combination! Love your distressing technique, will have to try it.
Really, really like this one! The layering of a frame around the stamping adds so much. Much gracias!
Always love watching your videos as I always learn something new. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity and talent with us.
Super cute and fun! Awww…I was getting used to seeing what you can do with tags, now it is over. I used to blend colors together with white back in the day coloring (with crayons) with the kids.
The little elves ARE fun! Thanks for sharing your pencil distressing tip.
These tags are super cute. I watched with great interest to see how you were going to distress these. Very cool technique. Happy Saturday to you.
I love the handmade idea for tags, it makes the tag a gift as well!! Thanks for making me feel I can do them almost as good as yours.
It’s incredible, you always have something new to show us ! And it’s fantastic too, as I love learning some new techniques with some material as simple as a cotton ball !
Today’s tags, of course, are beautiful and very inspiring ! Thank you for sharing.
Loved how these turned out!
These tags are so tiny and so cute.
Cute little coffee Elves! Totally enjoyed this year’s Tag Series. Thanks!!
Thanks for always teaching something new, can’t wait to take your colored pencil jump start class!
Very cute tags. I have never seen this technique. I really love the card you made as well. It reminds me of me and my friend when we get crafting together with our speciality coffees getting our Christmas craft fair items ready.
Very cute coffee tags. Yes! I have this set and and now have a different perspective on how to use the stamp set. Thank you for sharing and your creativity.
Great pencil technique and sweet tag for coffee/tea/cocoa lovers. Thank you for the inspiration this week.
What a wonderful tag die and how you customized it with the large word bubble looks terrific! I’ve never seen anyone distress with colored pencils so you may be onto a new technique!
This is such a cute set and your is beautiful.
Love these coffee tags!! I thought you actually were going to use coffee..!
I have to say, you saved the best for last! I think these are my favorite because well number 1 …coffee, number 2 …they look so vintage. :o)
My other favorite tag is the Adore Him set, love that one too!!
I would not have thought to do the final step myself, but I love that touch. It really finishes the ‘flavor’ of the tag. Darling!
Sandy, I love all your art. You have really become a blessed artist. Thank you for sharing your talent!
This tag die-cut is perfect for the little image. I have not seen this distressing technique before and it is so interesting!
Sandy, I love all your art. You have really developed yourself into a blessed artist. Thank you for sharing your talent!
Very cool – love the distressed look 🙂
What an interesting technique. I need to loosen up and start thinking out of the box! Love the elves❤
These are just lovely!
What a fun tag! Love the distress inking technique.
I love these sweet distressed coffee tags, Sandy! I am always looking for cute and tiny tags to add to gifts of small coffees for my Keurig! These are perfect, and really cute too!
adorable!!!!!!
Love the vintage look of the tags.
The card is spectacular.
thanks for sharing
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❤️now I need coffee;)
These are so cute. I love that tag die & how you modified the thought bubble to fit. I always learn something from watching you color.
LOVE LOVE LOVE all the tags
Your art is beautiful and your talent is inspiring. The thought of trying to make these brings a bit of joy to my soul.
Thank you for sharing with us.
These are so cute. I like the idea of adding one to a coffee mug for a gift.
They are realy fun tags and I looked with wonderment how you distressed the tags. That was awesome, I think you are quite right when you say that you are probably the first person to distress with colored pencils. But someone has to be the first. Thank you for showing these great 24 tags the past week, it was awesome. Have a great weekend.
OH how adorable!!!! I never knew that you could distress with colored pencils. Thank you Sandy for sharing this wonderful technique!!