At Tag Tuesday, Sandie is hosting the current challenge and she wants us to create tags by using book pages or sections of them.
What a fun challenge! For my first tag (above) I took a page with a picture from a travel guide about Egypt and attached it to a tag cut from cardstock. I stencilled with gold acrylic on top of it and added a scripted tape vertically on the left side. The woman's head was cut from another book page, covered with oil pastels and attached to the tags. I stamped the three words and edged them with oil pastels (as well as the edge of the tag). They are glued to the tag with pop dots. (stencil by Stencil Girl, stamps by Technique Tuesday).
The background comes from the German book on which I took the photo of the tag (above). I gave it an aged look with "vintage photo" distress ink (Ranger), then stamped the tree over it several times with two different colors. The lady and the branch are cut from an old Grimm's Fairy Tales book and colored with color pencils. I found the word "enchanted" in the same book. The tree (Hampton Art) was stamped and adhered with pop dots (I'm really trying to get rid of my old stuff).
On a side note, I have started to use handmade tags for my short personal notes that I include with every purchase from my Etsy shop. Since everything in my shop is handmade, it's only fitting that I include a handwritten note on something that has been handmade by me. Here are the first few tags I made:
I quickly ran out of eight tags. What was I thinking? So I got to work, creating several sets of tags. I spread out several of them next to each other on a big sheet of paper and sprayed them, always in groups of eight. After they were dry, I stamped and stencilled them. I have enough ribbon and leftover yarn to give them the final touch.
Yesterday I finished a set of 12 since I'm almost run out of tags. This time I skipped the stencilling and only stamped while the tags were still spread out next to each other. It was a lot of fun. When we get closer to Christmas shopping, I will enclose Christmas tags I already made.
