So far the tag project has been fun, but slow going. This is in part because of a lack of time to sit down and focus on Making Things, but also because small tags don’t take as much paper to decorate them! That was a bit of a revelation to me! So I’m using up paper, but not as much as I would if I were just straight up making cards. In order to move the Use Up part of this project along, I may make a few greeting cards if and when the mood strikes. For now, however, I’m proceeding with the tags.
As of now, I only have two of the Recollections Kraft Creative Tags left. I had made a couple of uncategorized tags that could be used for birthdays or just random gift giving (not pictured) before I switched to focusing on holiday gift tags. I will finish up those two tags and then I plan on cutting out a bunch of tags with my Pink & Main tag dies. I figure it will be easy to matte those tags because I can cut the base out and then the paper in the same size and glue one to the other. Easy!
You’ll see a couple of the tags are made with the Snow & Cocoa ephemera I have. I find when I get bored at looking at red and black and tan and green, my creativity is freshened up a little when I switch collections. I love the collage style of those tags and the unconventional colors. I have used a bunch of sentiments stamps from the stamp sets I pulled out and I’ve been enjoying coming up with ways to make the sentiments work on the tags.
I kind of feel like I need to power through this, but I also feel like I’m making progress and working on such a small scale reminds of when I first started card making and I thought 4.25″ x 5.5″ was so small! These are small canvasses but you can do a lot in a small space and I think you can see that in the designs I’ve come up with.
For links to the products I’m using, please refer to the previous post, which can be found here.
See you soon!
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