Merry Christmas and Happy 2014 + free printable gift tags

My dear readers and friends,

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and an excellent 2014.

What do I wish for next year? 

More love around me! If we all try, we'll make it happen!

And to thank you for this year, a little freebie for you:

3 design for you to use. Just open a word document and copy those images below and re-size as you please and place as many as you can in a page...come on, save those trees.

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Productive week - create create and create

This week with no children, I've dedicated all my free time to create! Buttons in a box and more stickers for my shop. I love the results and will definitely make more this week-end. For this post, I'll keep it to few words and a lot of images. I hope you like them! Of course, if you like them so much, they can be purchased here!

My new stickers for packages - entirely designed by me!

Have a good week end and off to London now,
Jess



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Free printable Mason Jar Labels or Tags - Handmade with Love

Happy New Year to everyone!

I've been a bit silent lately but I was working on few printables for you.

I adore jars of any sorts to usa as storage, display, vases therefore I created some cute printable tags for you!

To get them is very simple. Follow my blog and email me to let me know. I'll send them to you by email in different versions (including a moustache one :-)).

If you wish me to add something on them, fell free to ask,just give me some times.

I made those labels as tags for my handmade items and the result is fantastic.

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Printable Christmas labels - diy - tea bags

Here's an handy post for all of you who are looking for special labels for your Xmas presents.
well... I fell in love with this blog: The studio of Mae!
You can download here these super cool labels and visit her great website. This is only a little piece of art :-)

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Nice labels to inspire your holidays

Look at what Rainy Day colors has created:

I thought I'd share them with you as they are super cute!

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Tutorial from ArtMind - Polymer gift tags

by Mitsy of ArtMind (full tutorial via Poppytalk)

At the end, see Mad About Pink tips!

Here is what you need:

Metal stamping letters/numbers set, Fimo polymer clay, acrylic paint, flat wooden sticks, ceramic tiles or glass, cookie cutters, rolling pin, embossing tool or fat needle, paper plate, paintbrush and a cloth.

Take a piece of polymer clay and soften it while kneading.

Put the flat wooden sticks on the ceramic tile (makes it easier to transfer to the oven) and roll with the rolling pin over the clay so that it's nice, flat and even.

When you rolled out a piece, lift it up carefully and transfer it to another tile so you can roll out more little clay slabs.

Punch with your cookie cutters, figures out of the polymer clay slab.

Before you stat using your letter stamp set, wipe it off with a soft cloth. The stamps are a bit oily to make sure they don't start to rust.




Before you start stamping, try your stamp on a sample of Polymer clay.
This way you know how hard you have to press the stamp to get result and it will also be good to see if you're not holding the stamp upside down.

Hold the metal stamp tool as straight as possible and press lightly into the clay.

If you click on this picture below, you will see better what I stamped on the clay.

Take your embossing tool or needle to punch a hole in the clay.

Carefully take the piece of clay off the ceramic tile and punch with your embossing tool or needle on the backside of the clay so that the hole can be used.

Preheat your oven to 110°C or read the instructions on the packaging of the polymer clay you are using.

Put the ceramic tiles with the clay pieces in the oven for 30 minutes
and let it cool down afterwards. It's ready to use when they feel cold.

Put some acrylic paint on a paper plate and paint the sides and front of the clay.

Let it dry for a while.

When it's dry, rub it with a damp cloth so that most of the paint will come off again.

The harder you rub, the more paint will come off.

Here is another example with gold acrylic paint. Paint it.

Rub the paint away with a damp cloth.

Ready!

In case you have a hard time getting the thin thread through the little hole, here's a tiny trick that makes it super easy...


Cut a small piece of metal wire.

Fold the metal thread in half and put the thread in between.

Stick the metal thread through the little hole of the clay.

Wrapping Ideas:

Mad About Pink tips and results....and more ideas:

I've been using polymer clay for long and I personally tried this tutorial, I must say I had a great time.
I personally keep the clay in the oven a bit less as 30min is far too much but I guess you need to know your home oven. The tips is to have the oven at the right temperature.  
Try this:
put a paper tissue in the oven, if it starts getting brownish, the temperature is too high!
I also think that the paint effect looks better on a coloured label as with the white you end up "dirtying it"
Here's some of my jewelery and tags:

Butterfly pendant

Chocolate bars...transformed into earrings

Rose bronze pendant

If it seem too much work for you, order them here by sending me and email

Hand warmer tutorial

What a great tutorial while I'm standing here freezing. I've made similar ones and I tend to use a muslin bag that can be remove but this is great for quick gifts. There is also a Christmas label to print...a bit late but you can use it for next year :-)

1. For each pair I cut 2 rectangles of cotton fabric measuring 3 3/4" x 9".

2. Fold each rectangle in half with right sides together. Sew around the 3 cut edges, leaving an opening as shown for turning and stuffing. Turn right side out and press.

3. Fill with a tiny bit more than 1/2 cup of scented rice. This is where my children helped. I made a paper cone to help me fill them. Sew the opening closed with a whip stitch.

4. To make scented rice, choose an oil with a pleasing scent. I chose one that had a cinnamon and nutmeg smell, since the rice smells when it is heated. I thought these smells would compliment each other, but don't complain to me if you suddenly have a strong desire to consume large quantities of rice pudding. Add a few drops of oil to your rice. I mean it, drop-by-drop. I didn't have quite enough so I tried to add another drop and it POURED out! I ended up scenting a 10 lb bag of rice with that. At least I have enough now to make a gazillion of these.

I don't remember where I got this tutorial from. If you know let me know and I'll write it on here.

Thanks

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