I Did It.... I Did It !!

It's finally happened girls...

I finally got the courage up to dive into all my crafting goodies and put them to use by creating my first ever embellished tag..

Starting with a large, plain white tag that came in a multi-pack of 10 that I purchased at the craft store..

I then dug into my piles of pretty heavy card stock papers that I've been hoarding forever and some of the paper ephemera (sheet music) that I purchased at Junk Bonanza a few weeks ago...

Some scissors, a glass cutting board, a sharp crafting blade, glue, crepe paper, ribbons, laces, trims , a rubber stamp, ink pad and buttons..

And then VOILA!! Here is my first ever embellished gift tag that I've created....

The backside is far from being perfect, but I have to say, it's not too bad for my first attempt.

And a close up of the detailed embellishments. Notice the lace trim which already had tiny little pearl beads sewn onto the trim. A perfect extra little touch I must say.

It was fun coordinating my papers, trims, buttons and even the crepe paper so I could create a tag using one color as the primary color, in this case, purple and then adding just a bit of cream and greens as well to bring out those colors from the scrapbook paper.

Now that I've taken that first small step into creating some cute artsy things, I can't wait to try some more. I was just so excited today that I had to take pictures almost as soon as I finished my tag and before the glue even fully dried to show off my little piece of art.

I'd love to hear what you think of my first ever tag.

Now it's time to clean up the mess I've made and start getting dinner ready as all this craftiness sure has made me hungry :)