Wishing You a Cozy Holiday

I gave each of my teammates at work a small holiday gift and knew I needed to dress up the packaging with cute gift tags.  The Coffee Cup Tags stamp set from Hero Arts was a perfect fit for what I had in mind. 

I stamped the to go cup image in festive red ink and stamped the sleeve on kraft cardstock.  After cutting the pieces out with the matching dies and assembling them, I used red ink to stamp the "wishing you a cozy holiday" sentiment on the sleeve.  The holly and berry accent image was stamped with the help of my MISTI.  I inked the leaves in an olive green ink and stamped them, then used a black marker to color the berry outlines.  Once they were stamped, I colored in the outlines with a red marker before cutting out the image and adhering it to the cup with foam tape.  The cups were arranged on kraft stitched tag die cuts with a rounded top.  The rounded top contrasted nicely with all the sharp edges on the cup.  I cut a hole in the tag and topped each one with a festive red satin bow done up with the help of my Bow Easy.  After wrapping each gift (a small adult coloring book) in dotted kraft paper, I positioned the tags on the packages with more foam tape.  They got lots of oohs and aahs from my coworkers!

Materials Used:
Coffee Cup Tags stamp set, Coffee Cup Tags dies (Hero Arts); Memento Lady Bug, and Olive Grove inks, Memento Rhubarb Stalk marker (Tsukineko/IMAGINE Crafts); Kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink); Anytime Tags dies (Lil' Inker Designs); red satin ribbon; Bow Easy; foam tape