WINOS – Women In Need Of Spirits
July 13, 2014
Welcome! Thank you for stopping by! Today I have the great fortune of being guest stamper on the wonderful and generous Mary Fish’s Stampin’ Pretty blog!! I have been able to guest several times in the past but now I finally have a blog to share with you!
I love wine, and when I spotted “WINOS” on a cocktail napkin, it made me think that the next time I give a bottle of wine, I should make a gift of those napkins and some handmade wine tags.
When I started out, I fully intended on using the decorative mask – dots and stripes. Well, when you get a little carried away with the stenciling, you tend to get a whole lot of extra lines where you didn’t intend! So I used the smallest circle from the circle framelits and made a stencil. I used blackberry bliss ink and a cotton ball and went to work. When I was finished I cut out some leaf and stem shapes and inked them with mossy meadow. I applied different pressures with the cotton ball to get the shading I wanted.
I cut the crumbcake bottle tag at 3 by 9¾ inches. I scored at 1½ and 4 inches to be able to bend the tag. I finished off with a 1¼” circle punch and the large scallop edgelits. The sentiment is stamped in memento black ink from the A Dozen Thoughts. I masked off the words as needed to split the sentiment. Throw in a ribbon and bling and this tag is done.
The wine tags were made using the chalk talk dies. Easy peasy!! I made the grapes using a stencil from the ½” circle punch and added the leaves using a q-tip. I added each name with the Project Life markers, a few rhinestones and these babies are ready for a wine glass.
Ironically I never freehand anything. I am not an artist and my grade in college art would back up those words so I am quite pleased with how these turned out. I love the vibrancy of the blackberry bliss. I would have to say that is quickly becoming my favorite in color.
I worked so hard on these tags, I think I deserve a glass of wine (of course, I need to make a wine glass tag with my name on it first!!)
Thank you for stopping – come back soon!!
jane
PS: this is for you ladies: Teresa, Jodie, Karen, and Lani!!
Supplies: (all Stampin’ Up!)
Ink: Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Memento Black, Project Life Markers
Paper: Crumbcake
Ribbon: Blackberry Bliss
Rhinestones
Stamps: A Dozen Thoughts
Dies and Punches: Circle Framelits, Chalk Talk, Circle Punches – 1¼ and ½, Large Scallop Edgelits
Corks: Courtesy of my WINOS group gatherings
Congratulations on being on Mary Fish's site again. I love your work. Beautiful post and great project. I think the cotton balls made a very soft look. I love the scallop edge on the wine tag and the rhinestones look like drops of water to me. Very nice. :)
Posted by: Nancy Farrell | July 13, 2014 at 04:19 AM
I really Love this Jane! And hadn't thought about using cottonballs -- I figured you used the sponge daubers :-) I may have to do some CASEing here -- this is really cool :-) Thanks for sharing with all of us today -- Love that you were guest stamper on Mary's blog today!! Wendy K.
Posted by: Wendy Klein | July 13, 2014 at 05:18 AM
This is so nicely done! I used to do stenciling years ago and I just love how soft the cottonballs made the edges vs. the stiff brushes we used to use. Congratulations for being selected 'Guest Stamper' on Mary's blog. I go there everyday without fail and am always rewarded with amazing eye-candy--like yours!
Posted by: Julie Rae | July 13, 2014 at 09:29 AM
Hello ladies,
Thank you so much for your awesome comments! I am lucky to have Mary as an upline - incredibly supportive!
Here is why I use cotton balls - when I first started stamping I didn't have any sponge daubers and thought cotton balls will work. And they do, for the most part. Now that I do have sponge daubers and sponges, I still reach for the cotton balls and qtips. Old habits I guess!
Thank you for taking the time today to check out my post and blog!
Posted by: Jane Knudsen | July 13, 2014 at 11:32 AM
Love your "WINO" explanation! Very clever use of circle Framelits! Love it!
Posted by: Laura Lea Collet | July 13, 2014 at 01:22 PM
I love this idea! Did you make a template for the grapes? If you did could you explain how you did it?
Posted by: paula | July 14, 2014 at 05:50 AM
Hi Paula! Thank you for your comments. I did make a template - for the larger grapes I used the smallest circle in the circle framelits - it was not as big as a 1" punch but bigger than the 3/4" punch. I used the 1/2" punch for the grapes on the glass tags. I used a scrap paper and punched in the middle to give me plenty of protection as I made the grapes. I hope this helps!
Posted by: Jane Knudsen | July 14, 2014 at 07:47 AM
Love this. Going to make this set for hostess gifts.
Posted by: Sharon sienaski | March 21, 2015 at 12:53 PM
These are lovely. Maybe I missed it but what did you use to punch the individual cards to be able to wrap them around the stem of the glass? It almost looks like a champagne cork shape.
Posted by: Sherrie Clark | October 05, 2017 at 05:33 PM