Sunday, December 6, 2009

Peppermint Gift Tag


Well, my color choices could be improved upon (this has bravo burgundy ink and riding hood red ribbon, and I should have picked one OR the other) - but I wanted to go ahead and show you this idea.  Someone emailed me a day or two ago wanting to know if I knew any tricks to make peppermints from circle punches.  Poor dear, had to make 70 of them quickly.  I didn't have a solution.  (sad face here)

But since the problem had been input into my brain - I needed to find a solution.  My answer would be to make a mask, then sponge color onto your circle punch.  These peppermints were vanilla and burgundy - I think white and red would be more effective but that isn't the color scrap I grabbed.

Here is what my mask looked like after making a few of these...


And my fingers were just about as dark as this "vanilla" cardstock.  Oh well, the ink will wear off in a day or so...

3 comments:

Carolyn Sharkas said...

Hey, no fair. No posting Christmas Candy cuz I can't have any! I do love Christmas Candy, do you remember the ribbon candy? It was so yummy! I do love this little tag though, will look so cute on a page or card. I may have to make some, too. But tonight I will probably play with some of your Santas.

Hugs,

Anonymous said...

cool... is that free handed?

Ellen Kemper said...

Yes the mask was kinda freehand - I took a curve from a punch and traced it onto a circle then cut out the curved wedges.