Well almost anyway.
I wanted to go through a step by step showing you how I create tags. If you read my previous post about tags, then you know I love them and they can be as fancy or as plain as you would like them to be. The tags I have created here today are in between, a little bit of bling and a whole lotta LOVE!
There are many fun ways you can use tags! Here are some ideas for using these tags:
Do a sweet one and put it in your child's lunch box
Send some love to a friend of relative
Make a racy one and give it to your lover
Create a scavenger hunt with clues on the tags that leads to a sweet treat
I hope you enjoy these creations and find some inspiration for the loves in your life this Valentines Day.
First things, first, I had to decide which die I wanted to use to cut my tag. Both of these are Tim Holtz Alterations by Sizzix. Of course you can just cut rectangles in any size you like if you don't have these products. If you are not familiar with dies, the foam one is called a steel rule die and the thin ones are framelits.
As you can see there is not much
difference in the size of the two. Framelit in red and steel rule in white.
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However, in this picture, you can see that the cuts made with the framelits warped the paper! I tried a few different weights of paper to see if that would make a difference and it did not. So I used the steel rule and got beautiful results. I am using watercolor paper here for my tags.
To create the background, I used these two inks, again by Tim Holtz ( I might have a small craft crush on this guy, he puts out some amazing products!) The technique used for this is best shown on a video. I have created a quick video for you but there is so much more out there on YouTube.
This is a pack of stickers that I had in my stash, I originally found these at a thrift store. Unfortunately, they are no longer made. But I have a solution for this! Before you cut this page of stickers apart, scan it to your computer and print it out on sticker paper! Of course it is for your use only because selling it would probably violate tons of copyright laws. And you can still find them here and there on Etsy or amazon.
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This is the sticker paper I used.
Now back to the tags! So here I cut apart the stickers and I buffed some colors onto them. I have another short video for you demonstrating this technique. Again, more in depth videos are available on YouTube.
These pictures show the products I used to create the backgrounds for my tags.
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| Stamp and Ink |
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| Stamp and Ink |
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| Embossing |
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| Stamp, Ink and Embossing |
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| More stamps and Ink |
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| Stamp, Ink, Emboss and BLING! |
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| This paper came from a magazine (back) |
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| Front of magazine "free paper" |
This is the updated tag with a piece of paper (again, from a magazine) placed over the botched lip prints.
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| I added some bling and found a perfect little number 14! |
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| Small steel rule die |
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| This die came in a grab bag from SimonSaysStamp |
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| There's those lips in a better spot |
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| I had to get some heat embossing in here |
And here are the finished tags!
With Love in Christ,
Jennifer
