RECTANGLES:
The first example I will show is the
vertical rectangle with the one hole. I am one to be a little sentimental, and
I liked this fortune and decided I should make it more of a permanent fixture
by turning it into an embellished tag.
I traced my tag on two different
sheets of cardstock for the background of the tag. I then painted the MDF tag
Midnight Blue. Once dry, I glued the “college ruled lined paper” to the front,
and blue dotted paper to the other side. I went around the edges of the papers
with the chestnut colored Chalk Pad. I also went around the edge of the fortune
itself, in order to make it stand out a little better.
Once the glue dried, I used some
good old yarn to make a loop for hanging.
I now hang it where it has always
been, but it will last so much longer this way then it will boringly pinned
into a corkboard.
My next example is a horizontal
rectangle with two holes. I found some of our 2011 Valentine’s paper and made a
simple tag to accent to my little collection of Valentine’s Day decorations.
Once again, I traced the tag onto
some cute scrap-booking paper, cut the rectangles out and painted the tag
Fuchsia Pink. Once the paint dried and I had the front and the back papers
glued onto the tag, I sanded the edges and took a foam brush with some paint
around the edges to cover up proof that I sanded. Once wet paint covered the
edges, I dipped the edges in Cupcake pink glitter. After the glitter dried, I
spray-painted the glitter to protect it from rubbing off.
Next, my friend Kelli (aka, the
designer at Wood Co.) found the drilled holes under the paper, and she strung
some aluminum wire through and gave it a cute curl.
LETTERS:
For both the “N” and the “E,” I
first painted the letters. The “N” I painted Fuchsia Pink and the “E” I painted
Pansy.
While the first coat of paint dried,
I poured the glitter into some disposable containers. Once dry, I applied one
more coat of paint to each letter and dropped them into my containers of
glitter and put the lids on the containers and shook gently, as you can see
with my letter “E.”
Once both letters dried I sprayed
them with Krylon Clear Satin Spray to protect the glitter from flaking off.
As inspired by Pinterest, I used
these letters as decorative tags on presents. I tied the “N” into the knot and
I used double-sided tape to attach the “E” to the wrapping paper.
My first step was tracing my “W”
readable side down on the opposite side of the paper I wanted used as the
pattern on the front of my letter. Once traced, I cut the letter out so it
would be ready for me to glue when the time was right.
I painted my “W” Opaque Red. When it
dried, I put Wood Glue on the front side of my “W” and spread it around with a
foam brush. Next, I applied my paper and smoothed it down and let it dry. After
it dried, I sanded the edges of the letter to remove the extra paper from
tracing.
Next step, I took the bottle of wood
glue and outlined the “W” very carefully. I poured my container of Christmas
Red glitter into another disposable container, and stamped my “W” into the
glitter.
I then glued some ribbon onto the
back of my “W” to make my letter an ornament.
OVALS:
For my oval tags, the first thing I
decided on was a font that fit each of the tags purposes. If you go on
Pinterest and search for Free fonts, you will find a plethora of awesome fonts.
During our Christmas planning meeting,
my manager Rachel mentioned she wanted to see something more “Bah Hum Bug-ish”
for fun this year to throw in some variety to our cute and pretty Christmas
inventory. Somehow, the “Bah Hum Bug” design was not voted in.
Don't worry Rachel, I got you covered.
I found some fonts (I couldn’t decide
on just one) I felt were appropriate for a cold and less friendly tag and
designed them with the intention of being applied to an oval vertical tag with
one hole. I printed them on plain white cardstock and painted my tags Charcoal
Gray.
Once my text was traced around the
paper was cut out and the tags were dry, I glued my paper onto my tags and let
them dry. After they dried, I sanded of any excess paper on the edge.
I let these be as plain and flat as I
feel the phrase is. You can always embellish them with black jewels or glitter
that look like coal, or warm them up with some red ribbon and a bow.
My next set of oval tags serve to be
useful as labels for baskets in my sister’s kitchen where her five sons can
leave their shoes, school stuff or toys, instead of the more common areas like
the kitchen table, counter or worse, the floor.
My last oval tag is used as a Father’s
Day gift tag. I fell into the whole mustache craze and made this a manly tag. I
used our popular mustache paper on the back of the tag and a light patterned
paper for the front. On the opposite side of one of our late summer/early fall
paper lines, I found a larger mustache that I glued onto the front under the
words, “Happy Father’s Day!”
I found the font on Pinterest.
I did the usual painting and paper
cutting in order to decorate this tag the way I liked it. To attach it to my
present (my dad loves books and composer Gustav Mahler), I turned to something
I haven’t really even seen in years. I like its simplicity though. Yarn and
mustaches seem to come from the same era in time anyway.
ORNATE:
I saved my favorite tags for last
because I love the ornate shape
My first tag here was done on a
horizontal tag with two holes. I found a nice font and printed it on our doily
paper with brown ink. I painted the tag with Burnt Umber and cut out my paper
for both sides.
I tied one end of a piece of ribbon in
a knot and pulled it through one hole from the front of the tag, and then
pulled the ribbon back through the other hole to the front and tied another
knot. I cut off the excess ribbon so there is only a knot at each end. (By the
way, we sell these cute towels in our Boutique.)
I love our blue and white cloud paper
so I made the tag for a gift tag for a baby
present. I printed the lettering in brown (it’s a favorite color of mine) and
painted my tag Light Ivory to match the clouds. After the paint dried and I
glued my paper on, I applied another coat of Light Ivory to the edges and
covered them with our white Doodlebug glitter.
To finish it off, I stuck a puffy
sticker airplane to the tag and tied some baker’s twine through the hole to
turn it into a gift tag I’m pretty happy about.
My last tag is a Halloween tag using
our new Halloween line of paper and our orange dotted paper. I cut out the
banner flags, the rat and the skeleton from the opposite side of the green
paper.
I printed “Happy Halloween” in black
onto the orange paper and painted the MDF tag Leaf Green.
After gluing the paper onto the tag
and sanding the edges, I applied one more coat of Leaf Green paint to the edges
and dipped my tag in Michigan Moss glitter to give the tag some bling.
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