Hi, crafty friends! It’s the first Sunday of Advent, and I have a fun gift tag to share today featuring the adorable Baking Fun image from Purple Onion Designs, illustrated by Pei – I’m such a big fan of her illustrations!! I did a lot of baking last year for Christmas – SO many different types of Christmas cookies and sweets. This year, I haven’t even started yet. I have a few favorites I might end up making, I haven’t decided yet. Anyway, back to the gift tag.

I colored up the cute little mouse with Copics, adding a plaid pattern to the apron using a Zig watercolor brush marker (No. 98 Pale Dawn Gray), before fussy cutting the image leaving a white border. I used the Gift Pocket Tag die set from Mama Elephant to die cut from patterned paper from the Christmas Nostalgia collection from Maja Design to create my tag. I mounted the smaller piece with foam squares and did the same with the cute little mouse.

I stamped a sentiment from the Holiday Blurbs I stamp set from Purple Onion Designs using Amarena Cherry ink from My Favorite Things, fussy cut leaving a white border and mounted it on top of my image, doubling up on the foam squares on the left half. I tucked a few felt snowflakes from Kort & Godt under my element, added a bit of black glaze pen to the eyes and tied ribbon and twine at the top of the tag to finish.

I die cut the tag a second time from white cardstock and did quite a bit of stamping on it. I used second generation stamping of an old sheet music stamp from Magnolia using Powder ink from Concord & 9th – I wanted it to be very soft. The sheet music is actually for Silent Night, making it extra Christmas-y – not that you can really tell. I used first and second generation stamping of a branch from a Mathia Design stamp set using Eucalyptus ink from Concord & 9th to add a little something to the corners. I stamped a postmark stamp from Ladybug & Friends, as well as a to/from stamp from Norsk Stempelblad AS using Amarena Cherry ink from My Favorite Things. I don’t think Ladybug & Friends is in business anymore. Neither is Norsk Stempelblad, but I love their stamps and can’t bring myself to stop using them.

I didn’t use too many colors on this one.