Making beautiful altered tag art is easy. All you need are some colorful inks and embellishments…fabulous adhesives that are fail-safe…and a little bit of imagination. The tag featured below was created by Beth Watson. Recreate her project or use it as a guide to create your own.
Materials
-Kool Tak™ Layer Plus
-Kool Tak™ Ultra Clear Adhesive Sheet – 8” x 10”
-Kool Tak™ Premium Extreme 1/8”
-Kool Tak™ Premium Extreme ½”
-Kool Tak™ Premium Extreme 1”
-Kool Tak™ Sparkles in Silver or Gold
-Kool Tak™ Shiny Transfer Foil Sheets in Holiday or Spring Blossom
-Kool Tak™ Clear Foam Adhesive Pads
-Manilla Shipping Tag 3 ¼” x 6 ¼”
-Crate Paper Fourteen Collection, Sparks and Darling
-Clearsnap Fluid Chalk Ink, Chestnut Roan
-Crepe paper streamer, pink
-Ribbon, ¼”, white
-Tulle ribbon, red
-Embroidery floss, white
Tools: Scissors, Piercing Tool, Embroidery needle, Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die – Mini Paper Rosettes (2 Sizes); Sizzix Bigz Die 1” Circles; Big Shot Machine; Bone Folder
Instructions
- Crumple tag, straighten and ink all over with Chestnut Roan.
- Line up 1” wide Premium Extreme with bottom edge of tag, trim and peel liner paper. Fold over cut edge of crepe paper and pleat. Trim and fold over edge to finish.
- Cut a 4” x 4” square out of the Ultra Clear Adhesive Sheet, cover with Darling Paper. Trace heart and cut out with scissors or put through your die-cutting machine using a heart-shaped die. Peel back the liner and attach to tag. Trim excess overhang on the one side.
- Measure and cut a 3 ¾” length of ½” wide Premium Extreme. Cut a notched tail at one end of the strip of tape. This will be the overhang. Attach the strip flush to the left edge of the tag using Layer Plus Tool for straight placement, leaving a ½” overhang.
- Immediately apply Shiny Transfer Foil, grey side down/color up, with your finger or a bone folder, to the back of the notched overhang, where the adhesive is exposed. Then, remove the paper liner from the tape on the front of the tag and cover the whole strip with the same Shiny Transfer Foil you just used.
- Die cut Rosette from Sparks Paper, fold and attach ends with 1/8” wide strip of Premium Extreme to create tube. Cut 2” long strip of 1” wide Premium Extreme and place sticky side up on work surface. Gather top of rosette in fingers, while pushing in at top and out at bottom. Once flat, attach to Premium Extreme, flip over and burnish with bone folder for a complete bond.
- Line up Layer Perfect Tool along top edge of foil strip and pierce 8 holes with piercing tool. Repeat along bottom edge. Thread white floss on needle and stitch XOXO using pierced holes. Secure each end to back of tag with 1/8” strip of Premium Extreme – do not peel liner.
- Tie a 12” length of tulle ribbon through hole at top of tag.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this project. We’re curious….do you ever make altered tag art? Share your ideas in the comments below and happy crafting!