 Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how I've made these really full loaded over-the-top gift tags it's using lots of the simply creative supplies mixed with one of the first edition papers and a few other little bits but I'll talk you through that as you go so you would have seen me share a few weeks ago now I got all of these little gem stickers so there's the Father Christmas that's the one I'm going to use today and then I have the tree so that's this one here and what I've done is I've stuck them onto some acetate and then I've just roughly cut around the acetate and then I've stuck them on some clear silicone foam tape and then you can just see there's some dimension to it there and then I've started to build up these really like I said over the top gift tags now you don't obviously have to use them like this but I just I don't know I just got a bit carried away and I love them I love all this kind of stuff so that's the Christmas tree then you have the snowflake which is this one here you can see all that sparkle on the snowflake it's really nice it's all got a little bit of skinny tinsel there there we go and it's got a bell they've all got a bell actually they're going to look great when they're on the presents you can see on this I've put all these like little styrofoam balls and there's a little sentiment there from the Christmas tails collection and these are actually pipe cleaners on the all around the frame there just to kind of I just really like the effect and because they bend because they've got the metal in them it looks yeah I thought it looked really good so that's the snowflake then you've got the gingerbread man I like this one here and I put a little Christmas hat on him again a couple of bells kind of lost their ring a little bit there but and then I've made a little candy cane out of the pipe cleaners there and I've put it along the bottom there as well and then you've got all this pompom trim on all of them and then the last one is the penguin I love this one it's so cute again I've added the Christmas hat onto him and the same kind of thing that I done with this one here white pompom trim and then there is a jingle there and that's a merry Christmas that's one of the puffy stickers from the Christmas tails collection so very very straightforward it was more about inspiration for this video because these have all been cut by hand so you don't need to die for these tags because I wanted them to fit these stickers that I had so here's Father Christmas and then this here is a piece of five by three and a quarter like I said it doesn't have to be that length that size it's just that's what I decided to use for these ones here now what you will need to do if you do want to make it like I have is along the top you want to put a little marker at one inch and at two and a quarter and then along the side from that from the top there you want to do one and a half down so again just on that side there one and a half down and then I just with my scissors you can use a trim if you want just cut from the one and a half to the one of the top ones and then the other one there I'm just cutting down to that one there so now I've got my gift tag shape it's very straightforward and then what you could do is use that as a template or make up a template and just draw around it on all of them that's just a quick way to make a tag and then I've got my hole punch here I'm just going to punch a hole in the top there okay so that's the tag already then I'm going to grab my let's take this one out of the packaging I've just got a piece of scrap acetate here it's just stronger you can stick this directly onto whatever it is you're using I just liked it to be a little bit dimensional so that was why I'd done it but just peel them off they're lovely on shaker cards you can have them on the shaker window as well so I'm going to take that one off and stick him on here and you can see just look at all the sparkle on them they are so nice they really are fun to use and then I'm just going to very quickly cut around him okay like so so now he's just a bit more easier to use you could have him you know you could just put a hole punch and have him hanging as like a little decorative dangle it's entirely up to you but what I'm going to do now is just with some of my clear foam is just run a couple of strips down through the center really just to just to lift him up a little bit and then I'm going to stick him a little bit high because I want to run some of the pom pom trim on the bottom so about there now that clear tape's brilliant because you can't see it but now he is lifted off it's hard to really see on camera but you do notice it in person and yeah I just think he looks I think he looks really cute then I'm going to start decorating it so I have used all sorts so I've used the simply created pom pom trim so I've got the red I've got the white I may well frame this one again I do really like that effect so these are the candy cane pipe cleaners I'm going to grab two of them you get so many in here 60 so it's yeah it's just been really really handy and then those are the balls that I've used all along here all along there and don't use them on any others no just use them on those two so I may use it on this one I'm not entirely sure and then this is the skinny tinsel I've used these snowflakes which you can see here in here I have used oh yeah I used a couple of the rosettes from the Christmas towels so I've got one rosette there and one just here those Christmas hats are from last year and it's again simply created it's the Christmas chunky stickers I think I tried linking these before and I struggled to find them so I will have another look I think there might be something similar but it wasn't these exact ones but they're really cute but because I'm working with Father Christmas he doesn't need a hat because he already has one and then I used some of these puffy stickers so that was that one there which I used on the top of that one there these I picked up from Hobbycraft that's obviously the candy cane made from the candy cane pipe cleaners and then the bells you can pick them up everywhere but I have got the simply creative ones here but I've also got all of them in one of my drawers I have a lot of bells so I've just kind of been mixing them all up so yeah that's kind of what I did so what I'm going to do first is what have I got I've got a white one red so I've got two whites and two reds it doesn't really matter I could combine two I guess with this one so you just get your pom pom trim and I'm going to stick it along the bottom there let's see what it looks like with both actually quite like the white on top so I think I'll do the red on the bottom and then the white in between oh yeah I like that so I'm going to run a bead of glue along the bottom and then you just want to stick that over the top like so and then I'm going to grab the white one and you just want to offset it so they sit in between the ones below so let's do that there because there we go that's fine then I'm going to get one of these and I think I'm going to frame so I'm going to run one there or do I want to pop the little see I like the little balls there as well so let's see I might pop this up here you basically just the more you add for me the better like just really go over the top with it if that's the look you want obviously I know that's not everyone's cup of tea but I really like it so now I'm going to run a bead of glue all the way around here and I'm going to stick down this pipe cleaner okay so I stuck everything down how I wanted now you would notice that the background has changed because I didn't like the other one I found that he I don't know I just didn't think it looked great so I've just popped it on this red one which is the same as the one I used there for the tree so that's now all in place so I just want to add all the little details to it now so I'm going to add some of the of these little balls I think along here because I do like those and I'm going to tie off some ribbon along the top I need to choose a sentiment that I'm going to use and I'm probably going to try and find one of these wreaths and do the candy cane so to do that you just get one of these pipe cleaners and I just literally just curl the top a little bit bigger like so and then just cut it really how tall you want I'm going to go about there there we go so I can have that one find up there and I'm going to add some bells and things like that so again I will show you once I've done it okay so I've just been playing around I've added these Christmas trees so on this one here I've used the green rabbit here this is the sunlit meadow so once that dries it's still very wet I've literally just finished I will probably put another layer over it just to give it a bit more of a green but there's a lovely sparkle coming through on that one it's not picking it up too well at the minute in terms of sentiments I have to have a little rummage around because I'm not liking I love the the rosette but I don't like it on there I just think it's too big and it's going to completely hide the glitter you know the the gem Santa there and then that little penguin I added another one of these Christmas trees so again that one's all drying but it does need to set and then I tried the green here which was the woodland green on this one so this is going to just dry really shiny but I will put another layer over that as well so it should come up much much better in the photos but I think for the minute I'm just going to leave them it was purely just to give you some inspiration my idea is is that I'm going to wrap the presents in red plain paper or even white I've got a big roll of white paper so I may well use that actually I probably use will use the white and then I'll do a big red ribbon and then I'll have this gift tag so it really pops against the present so yeah I really like them they're really over the top and just fun and they use a lot of things which is good so if you have got a lot of bits and pieces lying around put them all together you know they clash but they work if you stick within those kind of I've stuck with red green white and then either silver or gold and it all kind of works together I think it does anyway so there you have it that's my very full loaded over-the-top gift tags I hope it's inspired you if it has please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye