Welcome to Day 12 of 12 Tags of Christmas!
Make a stack of pretty, gold foiled holiday tags using the 12 Days Designer Dies and Julie’s tips & tricks!
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Hello there—it’s Julie! I love pretty tags at gift-giving time, but when I need to make a lot, I’ve become very resourceful at speeding up the process. By the way, did you know the 12 Days of Christmas actually begin on December 25th, leading up to Epiphany (January 6th)? Yup! So you have plenty of time to surprise your loved ones with this sweet tradition!
TIPS:
- Align all your dies to half sheets of card stock and anchor them in place with Press N Seal; trim off excess Press N Seal. (Press N Seal is readily available at most US grocery stores)
- After ejecting all the die cut shapes from the first run, pounce the negative areas/shapes (where the Press N Seal is exposed) with anti-static powder; this will become your “template”. The anti-static powder reduces the “tack” of the Press N Seal so you can pop shapes out more easily AND avoid transfer of foil later on to unwanted areas.
- Place template(s) onto another half sheet of card stock and run through die cutting machine as many times as you need.
- After applying glue (the types specified in the supply list), allow to dry undisturbed until they are tacky to the touch.
- Apply transfer foils by placing “pretty” side up and matte silver side to glue details; press firmly with pads of fingers to transfer. Peel away foil sheet. This method is often referred to as “spot foiling” and is a great way to use up foil scraps!
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61 Comments
These tags came out beautiful and enjoyed watching and learning how to make them with your great tips.
Great tags! Love the laces you added to the man’s shoe.
Love these! The laces added to the man’s shoe are perfect!
What a delightful set of tags.Like the unique look. tfs-stay well.
Unique and beautiful tags. Represent the 12 days so well.
So much good info here, Julie! I love this technique (because I will not own another crafting appliance like a foiling accessory) but I do struggle with the glue pen (not quite as much as with the dang white gel ones, but……), so your patient demo on using one is just what I needed. Besides, of course, hearing that JE giggle one more time this year…….These are so elegant and lovely and your tips are so spot-on. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.
So elegant!
What a wonderful set of tags. The foiled set would make beautiful tree ornaments. They would fit in perfectly on our tree!
Oooo I love the gold foiling and white tags! WOW!
Gorgeous tags and fab tips for mass production.
What a fun technique.
I like the simple look of gold and white. They go with just about every paper.
Absolutely fabulous set of tags, Julie! Thank you so much for the how-to video; as always, a joy to watch your creative magic unfold!
~carol
The gold and white is simple and elegant. Beautiful!
I love these! Subtle yet beautiful!
Oh my gosh, Julie! I fell in love with the Twelve Days die set (I own the stamp 🙂 as soon as I saw it! What you’ve created with them here is totally awesome. The gold foiling on white is such a classic yet the tags still have that whimsical Julie feel to them. Thank you for your genius and inspiration ❤️
how classy! and now i can’t get the song out of my head!
The Gold foil with the White really dresses your tags up!
Love the laces on the shoe, very creative!
Thanks for sharing and for the inspiration!
Julie, you set of tags are beautiful. Elegant, simple design with a hint of whimsy. Thanks for sharing you tip about foiling— something I have yet to try. The sticky pad is a great idea.
Thank you so much for all of your foiling tips. Your tags are beautiful and I want to try foiling again now as I have struggled with it in the past.
This looks like a fun technique to try and your tags turned out so pretty. Thank you the most for the idea of the homemade sticky mat…what an awesome idea!
Very pretty.
Beautiful set of tags! I love the detail of the gold foiling! I already have my tag in mind to participate in the challenge for today!
Awesome tags, Julie! Love all the festive shine. Thanks for sharing, & have a wonderful day! 🙂 ~ Andrea
These are terrific! I like the elegance of the white and gold.
Love the tags and the video was full of some awesome tips. I love the look of foil but don’t have a foiling machine, so it’s great to know I can use glue. I, too, love these little glue pens…they are such a good value.
I am absolutely in love with these adorable tags they are all so amazing and a fantastic idea on adding the foil to them
White and gold are always an elegant combo.
I love how simple these look to make-
thanks for the ideas!
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Fantastic gold tags…love the press in seal trick.
Thanks for the video teaching us how to foil with glue. I didn’t know it was so easy. Love the tip about die cutting using Press N Seal, wish I know that earlier. Cute set of tags.
Beautiful! Thank you for the video too.
Such beautiful tags and wonderful ideas. 💜
Perfect tags for the 12 days of Christmas.
Thanks for the video and all the great tags!
These are some cute tags its really neat how you added the foil and how it pop’s off the white backgrounds, its really cool how you made a tag for each day of the 12 days of Christmas song
Fun tags and
very pretty.
Carla from Utah
I adore foiling & your tags are fabulous!
Sweet
Lovely! Thanks for the video!
Such elegant tags, Julie!
Nothing better than Julie giggles! These tags are so fancy & fun!!
SO fun, Julie! I had no idea a glue pen would help create such gorgeous, shimmery tags!
I love this alternate use for these dies! Gorgeous and quick.
Thanks for the inspiration–and the instruction! These tags are just delightful!
Wonderful tags – love your style!
I really like those simple gold and white tags with the 12 days of Christmas images. So pretty!
So simple and elegant looking. Love the huge variety of tags you made for the 12 Days of Christmas song.
Love the clean design! They are great!
Oh my goodness, these tags are brilliant! I love the tips for using the glue pen, as I didn’t have great success with it and completely forgot I had them. Now I will try again!
These are so elegant with the white and gold foil!!