Oct 21, 2009

Challenge #2: Make & Take tags

ETA.: you have all day today and tomorrow to complete any of these challenges/questions, so stay calm and just have fun!

This challenge is all about cute tags! All you have to do is create a gift tag and then post it in an online gallery, flickr, your blog and make sure to include a link in your post, so that I can find it! Easy enough right? But here are a few ideas for making fun little tags out of things you probably already have in your stash!

Chipboard Flower tag
For this tag, I sewed together left-over chipboard shapes. You could overlap and glue the shapes together too. Create a little collage using a piece of fabric, a stamp, flowers and a journaling tags, and a piece of yarn for tying!




Ballerina Gift tag
This is my favorite tag! Gather a small collection of buttons, preferably with the same color tones, and sew/glue them onto a tag. Glue a piece of ribbon over the buttons, add a leaf or flower and a small children's toy and glue together using a strong glue. (E6000 or Aleene's Original Tacky glue.)



Small Scraps
I love to use little pieces of different items; flowers, tickets, photo negatives, ribbons to make a 'scrappy-chic' tag! Try adding some spray paint to a journaling card and then layering different textures together, chipboard, crackle paint, fabric, paper scraps.



Have fun and remember to post a link!!

17 comments:

Christina said...

Here's my link: http://theelephantandthebutterfly.blogspot.com

Anonymous said...

P.S. I hope I made it in time! I'm going nutso right now, lol, with party preps and had to take a photo with a camera ... send it to my e-mail ... etc. etc. etc.

Thanks:)

Monika said...

We had lunch time and nap time routine right after you posted the second challenge so I got to it as soon as I could. Hope it's not too late. And thank you for giving me the push to finally make a tag for Bella's baby book. I love brighter colors and rub-ons.
here is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18664510@N05/4039836743/

Ilil Ziv said...

Thank you for this supper fun challenge.
Here is my tag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ililziv/4040781486/

GretaB said...

Tara, your tags are pure art! I struggle with this kind of thing, but I gave it a try: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7491197@N03/4040232247/

Danielle said...

Great tags ladies & Tara too :D OMG that little ballerina one with the buttons is how-so-cute!!!!

Lissy said...

Gorgeous :)

bethchien said...

sooooooooo creative!!!!!!!!!

Judy said...

Well, Tara, I have never done this but for fun I went to flicker and put on a little tag I made for my new 7 Gypsies photo display. I love this party.It took me so long to set it up I probably could have made some more tags. I love everyone's stuff.http://www.flickr.com/photos/myteatime/

Unknown said...

Those are all so beautiful! I will be making mine tonight.

chris a said...

Loved this challenge - I finished it this morning when the light was better and I could match colors. thanks for the challenge and here's mine
http://chrisaiton.blogspot.com/2009/10/little-randomness-on-this-glorious-day.html

Amy said...

Your tags are to die for! I really want to try the ballerina tag... I actually have some of the ballerinas that I had in a cake as a child. How fun!
I ended up using the tag that I created on a layout... you really inspired me! Thanks for the great blog party Tara!!
http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=192186&imgid=0&user_id=16337

Alicia A said...

Heres my tag:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gollyg/4043602409/

bethchien said...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22567929@N02/4045244210/

Here's mine!

Unknown said...

Ok here is my tag...pls forgive the ugo pic but it is 1030 pm here in california lol!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bettiescrapbook/4045099381/

thanks for the inspo doll!

Mexx said...

ooh girls love your stuf so much and so one tag i just love th most..and scraplift him in my style hope you like thanks for the inspiration you gave us...http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=192261&user_id=5898
thanks you again

Unknown said...

So pretty! I love your quirky eclectic style - it's very cool :)