Welcome to day 10 of the 12 Tags of Christmas! We are delighted to have the crazy talented Essentials by Ellen designers Julie Ebersole and Brandi Kincaid here today! Julie and Brandi are sharing their non-traditional color palettes (anything but red & green together, LOL) using Essentials by Ellen stamps & dies!
Julie is sharing her tag “Hello Monday-style” so make sure to leave a little comment love for her here and check out Brandi’s blog (link below) to see her tag and leave her a little love. All comments will be entered for a chance to win a $25 gift code and head here to enter the 12 Tags Challenge!
Red and green together is probably the single most “traditional” color combo in the history of holiday themes. Julie, and partner in crime, Brandi, decided to go rogue with alternatives, proving that red and green are not the only game in town when it comes to holiday tags.
TIPS:
- Make a diecut jig using your MISTI; it increases stamping accuracy and speeds up mass production!
- Catherine Pooler water-based dye inks can easily be used as a substitute for watercolor paints.
- Use a waterbrush, like the Pentel Aquash, to paint your tags; it eliminates the need for a jar of water.
- Give your tag some extra fun by doubling up; it also gives you some extra room to write!
- Dress up your plain kraft wrapping paper by making a snowflake garland! Wrap the gift with twine, then use glue dots to secure die cut snowflakes along it for a fun, out of the ordinary look!
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Like the challenge of no red and green…the mittens are so cute clipped with the clothes pin and the truck coming out of the die cut HOME is so clever. tfs
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Awesome tags, and nice to see a challenge to use non-traditional colors. 🙂
Julie and Brandi have done excellent jobs using non-traditional cord on their tags. Love the doubled up tags clipped on the homemade snowflake garland with the little Garland–reminds me of my childhood.
Brandi’s card with the little truck driving out of the forrest towards the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ is very creative. Great job for both girls!!!
I enjoy seeing what non-traditional Christmas color combos people come up with.
great non-traditional colors in your tags today – both wonderful!
i really like the non traditional tags! thank you ladies for the ideas
Wonderful tags in non-traditional colors.
The packaging is fun – love the snowflake
strings. The simple mittens make a
great tag and are not overly -ussy
thanks for sharing
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Like the tag
I’m not great at thinking outside non-traditional colors, so this is really helpful for me. I never would have thought to go mint, orange, and pink, but it totally works! And the mittens are adorable. Having these sorts of ideas in my back pocket I think will help avoid the Christmas card fatigue, because one can change up the color palettes. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful tags by Julie and Brandi! Love the alternative color suggestions!
Love these cute mittens so much…
What a fun idea … and cool, fabulous tags from Julie and Brandi … great palettes! Anita 🙂
I LOVE the unique colors and shapes on these tags! Great job ladies!
Fantastic tags! Both of them are wonderful…
Thanks for sharing…
great use of the mitten die!
Non-traditional colors are fun for Christmas.
What a charming group of tags!
LOVE non-traditional colors. those mittens and that truck are adorable!
Wonderful tags ladies! I love that you did non-traditional colors and they worked very nicely too. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Love your mittens – super cute 🙂
I love using non-traditional colors, this is a great idea for a challenge!
Oh, I’ve been waiting for today – 2 of my favorite Ellen gals! And they sure didn’t disappoint! Love both of these – the mittens are the cutest and love the sweet truck coming out of the letters! You are amazing! Thanks for the sweet inspiration……..love ya all.
These color combos look
lovely and love the mint
and pink.
Carla from Utah
First off that Snowflake garland is AWESOME, I will definitely be using those in my wrapping this year! Julie and Brandi did a great job keeping with the non-traditional colors and feminine themes. Thanks ladies for sharing your tags and wrapping and the awesome inspiration.
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I love these cute tags. They’re very beautiful. And I love that fun gift packaging!!!!!
:The simplicity and bright non-traditional colors of Julie’s tag immediately grab your attention. Great inspiration!
Love the non-traditional colors, and the idea of using twine and snowflakes with kraft wrapping paper – awesome!
Love the funky mittens in fresh colours.
Another day of cuteness!
Great tags! So cute.
Fun! Cute inspiration today! Can’t wait to do a tag with no red or green! 🙂
Just adorable.
Clever and beautiful work
Great ideas here – so much creativity
Love the cute mittens and the snowflakes on the string. Fabulous HOME card with the truck design too.
Fast and fun little glove tags you made! I love how your whole package wrapping escapade turned out. Those little snowflakes are the perfect touch!!
Julie’s tag is so wonderful! Love the messy (and easy!) watercoloring. Thanks so much for the video, too! Off to get a closer look at Brandi’s! 🙂 ~ Andrea
I am loving all of the creations.
Love the mitten ideal – great colors 🙂
Your mitten Tags
are so sweet and
comfy! Love the colors!
Those mittens are just so fun.
The use of non-traditional colors is always interesting for holiday crafting. Cute design for the shaped tags and thanks for sharing your tips and the technique video.
These are fantastic!! I love the mittens and the creative work by Brandi! 🙂
Love these fun color schemes! Both tags are really pretty.
Such fun and cheery tags–great idea to use nontraditional colors! I also really like the tags being used with kraft wrapping paper.
I love your darling little mittens! Love the swatches of color over the patterns and so cool attaching with a little clothespin!
Love both of these tags and the non traditional colors. Will have to try both of these great ideas!
I adore non-traditional tags… so fun! The mitten cut outs are so sweet!