Altered Tag - Sunny Garden DSP

Just a quick post today to share with you an altered clothing tag.

Have you noticed that a lot of the clothing ranges in shops now have lovely tags, some even come with buttons sewn on to them already. However this one did not have buttons but I added a Springtime Vintage 'Big' Designer button and some buttons made with the Embosslits Sweet Buttons Die.

I tore some Sunny Garden DSP and sponged the torn edges before fixing to the tag. The flower at the top right was already on the tag so I took my lead for colour from this when choosing the paper and used Poppy Parade ink to stamp the images.

Stamp sets used: 

French Foliage (for text background)

Strength & Hope (swirl image)

Broadsheet Alphabet (my initial 'J')

Punches used:

Circle 1 1/4" and 1 3/8"

The ribbon, eyelet and twine were already on the tag.

Thanks for dropping by.



Springtime Vintage Tag

Wow, the Mini Catalogue is now in full swing and we can enjoy lots of fabulous new products, plus the 'star of the show' the Big Shot. Please click on the image to the left the view the Mini Catalogue, which runs alongside the current Idea Book and Catalogue until the end of September 2011.

For the tag I am sharing with you today I have used the following new products from the Mini Catalogue :

Square Lattice Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper pack

Seam Binding Ribbon in Pear Pizzazz

Four Frames stamp set

Decorative Label punch

Big Designer Buttons

Glass Glitter in Baja Breeze

The inner layer of the tag has been made by adhering torn pieces of Spingtime Vintage paper to a tag shape cut from Baja Breeze card, and this has then been embossed using the Square Lattice embossing folder to give a 'quilted' look. 

My colour theme for the cardstock is Pear Pizzazz and Baja Breeze, and I have used Pacific Point ink for stamping and edging the sentiment.

So many of the new products on one little tag!

Julia

Life is Beautiful - Tag Along

Hi and welcome to my tag along.

My colour combination for this tag is river rock and rich razzleberry. I took a workshop last Saturday with a lovely group of ladies and the card we made was in the same colourway, I liked it so much I thought I would use the colours again.

Firstly I stamped part of the large Medallion in river rock ink onto river rock card. I then overstamped this with two images from the Style Beautiful set of stamps in rich razzleberry. To layer the tag I used the text paper from the Brights Paperstack. The sentiment is embellished with two leaf flourishes punched from the Two-Step Bird Punch and dabbed with rich razzleberry ink using the sponge daubers.

To complete the tag I added a round tab to the top, pierced holes around the medallion image and finished with a few pearls.

Until next time ..... Julia

 



Beware Pirates! Tag

For my tag this week I have been playing around with the Beware Pirates stamp set kindly on loan from my Manager Hayley. I have seen some fantastic projects and cards made with this stamp set using various colour schemes, including a girly version of bright pink and black which is very striking. However, I decided to use colours of old olive, pumpkin pie and concord crush. 

I was a little out of my comfort zone with this one as I  felt the stamp designs called for some tearing and distressing on the project. As you can see I have not taken it too far though!

To make the tag:

Cut a tag shape from old olive card and, using concord crush ink, stamp the right hand edge of the tag using the decorative edge of the pirate/skull image. Use a sponge dauber to smudge concord crush ink around the tag and a tool from the distressing kit to file the edges. 

Stamp the pirate/skull image with concord crush ink onto very vanilla card and colour around the image using sponge daubers with old olive and pumpkin pie inks. Tear around the image and colour the torn edges with pumpkin pie. Cover the piece all over with 'Versamark' ink and emboss with clear powder.

Stamp 'Beware Pirates' in concord crush onto pumpkin pie card, tear the edges and colour with concord crush. 

Wrap gold thread around the bottom of the tag and secure with sticky strip. Punch hole in the top of the tag and fix a large antique brass eyelet using the crop-a-dile. Insert ribbon and tie round with gold thread. Snip the top edges of the ribbon and fray.

Stick images to tag, using dimensionals to raise the pirate/skull image. Add mini brads from the regals colour collection in a scattered design to finish.

Wine Bottle Tag using Love Letter Designer Papers

For my class next week we are going to be making four cards and a tag using the Love Letter Designer Papers in the classy colours of vanilla, riding hood red and black. Here is a preview of the tag we are going to make, designed to fit over the neck of a wine bottle.

I have stamped the letter 'V' to represent valentine or vino using the Broadsheet Alphabet set, or you could use the initial of the recipient of the bottle.  As a contrast old olive ink has been used for the stamping and a torn strip of old olive cardstock added to tie in the colours. Basic black taffeta ribbon has been 'ruched' down the side of the tag. I especially like the fact that the taffeta ribbons are more subtle shades of all the colours and the basic black is more of a charcoal grey, which is perfect for the vintage look. The tag, torn papers and hearts have been distressed with soft suede ink around the edges, seems an odd colour choice to add to the above but I think it works.

The beautiful Broadsheet Alphabet set (£36.95 clear mount) has a different decorative design for each letter and has been used on the 'Artsy' journal featured on the front cover of the current Idea Book and Catalogue.

Embellishment Tag Book

Hello and welcome to my 'Tag Along'.

Today I am sharing with you this cute little tag book of embellishments I made as a gift for my friend Natalie who hosted a Stampin' Up! workshop on Tuesday.

I arranged various colour themed embellishments onto 'ATC' sized tags (6.5cm x 9cm) cut from crumb cake cardstock and used the ornamental flourish from the Bliss 'Sale-a-Bration' set to decorate each tag. I then decorated the front cover using  the 'thanks' stamp from the Perfect Punches set. The book is held together with a binder ring and to finish I tied a bow from the lovely certainly celery striped grossgrain ribbon.

Natalie was very pleased with the tag book, but felt that it may just have to sit on her desk to be looked at as she did not want to pull it appart to use the embellishments!

Tag Along - Butterfly Bliss

In my 'Tag Along' section I will regularly feature a new tag design. My first tag uses the wonderful 'Sale-a-Bration' set 'Bliss' (click on 'Sale-a-Bration' leaflet for details of how to receive this stamp set FREE).

The tag has been cut from Confetti Cream cardstock, which is fast becoming favourite of mine. I have stamped the design in colours of old olive, rich razzleberry and pacific point. The rock and roll technique has been used for the featured butterfly - ink the stamp using old olive as the first layer and then 'roll' the edges of the stamp onto the rich razzleberry ink pad before stamping your image.

The fabulous striped grossgrain ribbon finishes the tag tied round with some linen thread.