Yesterday I shared a tid bit of a fall project I worked on yesterday, my gift of salsa and handmade tag. This was actually a two day project as I spent most of the day Thursday making home-made salsa with tomatoes, cilantro & peppers from my garden. This is the first time I made salsa with most of the ingredients coming from my garden and kind of made up my own recipe. I put in a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I plan on making more with tomatoes my daughter gave to me from her garden. I will try to remember to jot down some notes on the amounts of each ingredient and share with you next week.
Now for the stamping & papercrafting part of my project. I wanted to create some tags for my jars because I will be giving many of the jars as hostess gifts during the fall & winter holidays. Each tag will be different and I want an earthy feel to them. While my first tag has some earthy elements and colors, it does have a touch or two of bling as you saw in yesterdays share.
The bling came from cutting out two feathers using our Feather Framelits (#135852 ) and our Silver & Champagne Glimmer Papers. I added some fall color to them both by using Rubbing Alcohol & reinkers. (watch for a video on this technique).
Colors I used for this tag are: Elegant Eggplant, Tangelo Twist & Crushed Curry, doing the rock & roll.
I love that I could capture the colors of the Glimmer paper feathers!
The stamp Set used is : Cheerful Tags (#135065)
To add to the earthy feel I used our Burlap Ribbon & White & Tangelo Two Tone Trim (#135830).
You will find the Cheerful Tags stamp set in our newly released Holiday Catalog on page 5. Yes it is in the Christmas section but you can use it for any occasion just by the colors you use. I also plan on making coordinating labels for the lids.
By the way- the Garth Brooks concert was amazing last night! I saw him 17 years ago at his last concert before retiring so I had some pretty high expectations and I can say he met them. He still puts on a great show and I highly recommend that if he comes to your area you need to go. I shared a picture on my facebook page if you’d like to see it.
Now it’s time to get back to canning the rest of the tomatoes!
Til we meet again,
