Inpsired by yesterday's bit of scrapping, I looked at the pile of scraps on my desk and decided to make some tags with the left overs. In fact, I went further and made a couple of tag cards.
I dug out a Sizzix original die, which is a jumbo tag die, and punched two tags and two tag cards out of a beautiful blue cardstock I had cut into three 12x4 strips. To make a tag card, you have to fold the cardstock in half and line it up on the die so that there is still a fold when you remove it - this means flattening off the top of the tag, but it's a small price to pay.
The tags were very quick and easy - paper offcuts, a touch of bling, stickers and ribbon and hey presto. The narrow ribbons I used were a freebie from a company called A Trip Down Memory Lane - they always pop in a few lengths of ribbon to coordinate with bits in your order. Another company who do that are Craft Obesessions - but with them it's a couple of lengths of Basic Grey fibres. I don't really use fibres, but when they come I always wish I did!
Well, here are three tags/tag cards, which took all of about 20 minutes between them. I think I will put them in a drawer and get them out in November when I will need a bit of sunshine!
isn't it amazing what you can make from a few bits and look how nice they turned out. great to see you back in action.
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