GD: Lelainia Lloyd #3 Very Merry Gift Tags

Hello everyone, Lelainia here with my final project for this year.  I’m the kind of person who likes wrapping gifts. I think it’s the handmade touches that make giving so enjoyable for me. Here’s how I made some handmade tags to add that little something special.

I began by cutting a sheet of Smoothy Heavy weight cardstock into 1 inch strips x the width of the paper.

I chose my paint colours and painted two  strips in each colour on one side only.  I used Paper Artsy Frescos in Cherry Red, Ice Blue, Hyde Park and Hey Pesto. (I did two shade of green because I wasn’t sure how dark Hyde Park would turn out to be.)

Once the strips were dry, I folded each one in half and creased the fold with my bone folder

I used UHU glue stick to glue the strip to itself.

I found some old German script book pages and cut some 1 inch strips.

 I cross cut the strips into 1 inch squares and then folded the squares in half and trimmed them down a bit using my pinking shears to give them a nice edge. I applied glue stick to the book paper and glued it over the fold of my strips.

On the opposite end of the tags I either rounded the two corners with my corner rounder or I cut a triangle notch with my scissors.

Next, I stamped my tags using a variety of stamps from Lin Brown ELB10 and ELB11 and Staz-On inks in Black and Midnight Blue and Martha Stewart Snowflake.

 ELB10

ELB11

On some of the tags, I embellished various details with Stickels glitter in Silver and Xmas Red. I allowed the glitter plenty of time to dry.

It was fun figuring out what stamps to combine. I like how the images bleed off the edges of some of the tags. I think it makes them interesting

I punched a hole through the book page end of each of the tags and threaded a  length of matching Baker’s Twine through, knotting the ends.

There’s plenty of room to write the recipient’s name & a message on the back of each tag. I hope you have fun making these, thanks for looking. 

Lelainia. 

A huge thanks to Lelainia from all at PaperArtsy. These tags are so effective! We love pinking shears! Creating art in such a small space can be difficult but these are just perfect. Your projects this month have been such fun and so inspiring, thankyou!

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