A professional graphic designer who uses her background in art history and restoration to create everyday objects you can enjoy in your home or as wearable art. It's a joy to bring the best art and design of ages past into everyday life, plus invitations and DIY party projects. If you don't already share my love for artists and illustrators such as Alphonse Mucha, Edmund Dulac, Beatrix Potter, Carl Larsson and John Tenniel, perhaps you'll discover a new enthusiasm.
Showing posts with label Gift tags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gift tags. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Vintage Santa Claus DIY Christmas Gift Tags

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Santa Claus DIY 5-Inch Gift Tags - Old World Charm

Wonderful antique Santa Clauses from 1909 and 1910 on elegant five-inch tags. All four Santas from my gallery's Vintage Santa Claus Collection are represented on eight different tags. Each Santa is laden with gifts and standing beside a Christmas tree. I love kind expressions on their faces. DIRECTIONS: This is one of the easiest DIY projects ever. All you need is a pair of scissors and a hole punch. (All the lines are straight, so if you have a paper cutter, you could use it instead of scissors if you prefer.) Just cut out the tags, punch the holes, add a ribbon or sting, and you have one impressive gift tag!

Zazzle does all the printing, and you have all the fun!

These are also wonderful resources for mixed media artists and scrapbooking. .

Please visit my gallery's Vintage Santa Collection for matching items. And a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Burne-Jones Angels DIY Christmas Gift Tags

 

Burne-Jones Angels DIY Christmas Gift Tags


Edward Burne-Jones Angels 5" DIY Gift Tags

Eight different Burne-Jones angels on five-inch DIY gift tags. Titles of the orginal paintings include The Star of Bethlehem, The Annunciation, The Days of Creation, and Angel Playing a Flageolet.

DIRECTIONS: This is one of the easiest DIY projects ever. All you need is a pair of scissors and a hole punch. (All the lines are straight, so if you have a paper cutter, you could use it instead of scissors if you prefer.) Just cut out the tags, punch the holes, add a ribbon or sting, and you have one impressive gift tag!

Zazzle does all the printing, and you have all the fun!

These are also wonderful resources for mixed media artists and scrapbooking. .

Please visit my gallery's Angels Collection for matching items. And a Merry Christmas to you and yours!

Friday, November 26, 2010

Beatrix Potter Merry Christmas Rabbits Gift Tags Enclosure Cards

Beatrix Potter Gift Tags Merry Christmas Rabbits

Beatrix Potter Gift Tags Merry Christmas Rabbits

Merry Christmas and Plenty of Buns Beatrix Potter

Three Rabbits Eating Plenty of Buns by Beatrix Potter, painted in the early to mid 1890s.

These enchanting gift tags or gift enclosure cards add a touch of Beatrix Potter charm to your gift wrapping. These would be especially appropriate for your holiday gifts of food and baked goods. For hang tags, just punch a hole (these look cool when the hole is punched in the upper left corner).

Gift enclosure cards are always tasteful and appreciated . They are practical, too, as gift tags sometimes get separated from the gift during the all the merry making and holiday hubbub.

If you'd like to personalize the back (or change it to another language), simply delete the image and type in your own text.

Description: On the front, a delightful painting of three bunnies eating, yes, plenty of buns! I love her ingenious use of lettering which spells out the message "A Merry Christmas and Plenty of Buns." And liking good puns the way I do, I also love the play on words (buns like you eat and "buns" as a short form of "bunnies"). Beatrix Potter normally signed her works with her three initials in a lower corner, but she continued her playful use of lettering in this particular painting and placed them on the key tag instead, which I find quite charming.

The reverse is embellished with small Beatrix Potter drawings of a tiny bird, a pie and a tea set.

Please visit my gallery's Beatrix Potter Christmas Collection for another version of this same gift tag and many matching items.

About the original work of art:
Artist: Beatrix Potter
Title: Three Rabbits Eating Plenty of Buns
Date: Early to mid 1890s
Medium: Ink and watercolor heightened with gouache.

Beatrix Potter Gift Tags Merry Christmas Rabbits Enclosure Cards

 Beatrix Potter Gift Tags Merry Christmas Rabbits

Beatrix Potter Gift Tags Merry Christmas Rabbits

Merry Christmas and Plenty of Buns Beatrix Potter

Three Rabbits Eating Plenty of Buns by Beatrix Potter, painted in the early to mid 1890s.

These enchanting gift tags or gift enclosure cards add a touch of Beatrix Potter charm to your gift wrapping. These would be especially appropriate for your holiday gifts of food and baked goods. For hang tags, just punch a hole (these look cool when the hole is punched in the upper left corner).

Gift enclosure cards are always tasteful and appreciated . They are practical, too, as gift tags sometimes get separated from the gift during the all the merry making and holiday hubbub.

If you'd like to personalize the back (or change it to another language), simply delete the image and type in your own text.

Description: On the front, a delightful painting of three bunnies eating, yes, plenty of buns! I love her ingenious use of lettering which spells out the message "A Merry Christmas and Plenty of Buns." And liking good puns the way I do, I also love the play on words (buns like you eat and "buns" as a short form of "bunnies"). Beatrix Potter normally signed her works with her three initials in a lower corner, but she continued her playful use of lettering in this particular painting and placed them on the key tag instead, which I find quite charming.

The reverse is embellished with small Beatrix Potter drawings of a tiny bird, a pie and a tea set.

Please visit my gallery's Beatrix Potter Christmas Collection for another version of this same gift tag and many matching items.

About the original work of art:
Artist: Beatrix Potter
Title: Three Rabbits Eating Plenty of Buns
Date: Early to mid 1890s
Medium: Ink and watercolor heightened with gouache.

Carl Larsson Christmas Tree Gift Tags - Gift Enclosure Cards

 

Carl Larsson Christmas Tree Gift Tags Enclosure Cards

Carl Larsson Christmas Tree Gift Tags Enclosure Cards

Carl Larsson Juletræ (Christmas Tree) 1917

These lovely gift tags or gift enclosure cards add a touch of Old World charm to your gift wrapping. For hang tags, just punch a hole (these look cool when the hole is punched in the upper left corner).

Gift enclosure cards are always tasteful and appreciated . And they are practical, too, as gift tags sometimes get separated from the gift during the all the merry making and holiday hubbub.

If you'd like to personalize the back (or change it to another language), simply delete the top image and type in your own text.

Looking at Larsson's paintings always leaves me feeling refreshed, and this one is no exception. I love the graceful lines, the feeling of calm anticipation and the sense of a happy family this painting evokes.

Description: A pretty little blond girl in traditional folk costume stands on a chair to add a candle to the Christmas tree.

Matching note cards, address labels, stickers and more are available in my gallery's Holiday and Winter Collection.

About the artist: Larsson, Carl (b Stockholm, 28 May 1853; d Falun, 22 Jan. 1919) was a Swedish painter, illustrator, printmaker, and writer. His work included numerous portraits and book illustrations, as well as several large murals (the best known are those on Sweden's artistic history in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1896), but he is now remembered mainly for his watercolors of the idyllic life he enjoyed in his now-famous house in the village of Sundborn with his wife Karin and their eight children.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Redoute Red Camellia Gift Tags Enclosure Cards

Redoute Red Camellia Gift Tags Enclosure Cards

Pierre-Joseph Redouté Camellia japonica 1827

These beautiful gift tags will add a touch of grace and elegance to your gift wrapping. Enclosure cards are always thoughtful, tasteful and appreciated -- and practical, too, as gift tags can become separated from the gift at events like showers and weddings and also during transit if the gift is shipped.

I adore this particular print: lovely, simple, elegant, charming -- everything but the marvelous Camellia scent. Produced by "the Raphael of flowers" Pierre-Joseph Redouté for his sumptuous book of engravings Choix des plus belles Fleurs.

I love the graceful lines, the vibrant greens of the sun-dappled leaves and the rich red of the flower itself. Truly, it's an exquisite bloom. (Well, that's no wonder: the specimen he painted belonged to a French princess!)

Matching note cards, Christmas cards, stickers, postage stamps and more are available in my gallery's Antique Botanical Prints Collection.


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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Christmas Angel Gift Tags Enclosure Cards Melozzo da Forli


 Christmas Angel Gift Tags Enclosure Cards Melozzo

Angelo Musicanto - Melozzo da Forli - 1480

Angelo Musicanto (Music-Making Angel) by Melozzo da Forli, 1480.

These beautiful Italian Renaissance angel gift tags or gift enclosure cards add a touch of elegance to your gift wrapping . I love the uplifting colors, the expression on the angel's face, and that beautiful Cimabue blue sky between his outstretched wings.

For hang tags, just punch a hole (these look cool when the hole is punched in the upper left corner).

Gift enclosure cards are always tasteful and appreciated . And they are practical, too, as in the all the merry making and hubbub, gift tags sometimes get separated from the gift. If you prefer printed enclosure cards, I have this same design available in my gallery as a business card. Just change the text to suit your taste for enclosure cards.

Matching postage stamps, note cards, postcards, stickers and more are available in my gallery's Angel collection.

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