To make these snowflake tags I have used scraps of corrugated Kraft card, small wooden tags (The Works), red snowflake embellishments, pearl flat backed gems, Butchers red and white twine and wooden beads.
The finished tags measure approximately 3ins x 2.ins.
I cut out the tags using the corrugated Kraft card, then attached smaller wooden tags to them using red and white Butchers twine and a wooden bead
The wooden red snowflakes were Christmas parcel tags from Sainsburys. They were glued to the wooden tag using PVA glue, and then the tag was edged with faux stitching using a red gel pen.
My choice of flat backed pearls was governed by the fact that, unbelievably, I have run out of small clear flat backed gems, but work well nonetheless, perhaps making the tag look a little posher. I also needed to add the pearls to cover the hole used for string it originally had threaded through. Please excuse gluey globs!!
These tags would look good on a parcel wrapped in a plain kraft paper, or a on a plain red paper with matching string or ribbon.
What I do with all my stuff I make ……..????
Susan asked what I will be doing with all the things I make, especially now that I don’t work and no longer have the staffroom table to display my wares. Well Susan, the café I like to take Iris on a Wednesday for her scrambled egg on toast is hoping to diversify and have a little crafty section as a side line, so I am going to take a small selection of bits to see how they go, but I really don’t want to start making “en masse”. I was also asked before Christmas if I would like a stall at a craft fayre, sadly, I had to decline as I had absolutely nothing to sell, so all the Christmas stuff I will be making in the coming months, cards, tags etc. will be put away just in case it I am asked again.
I shall also be going backwards and forwards to nursery from April onwards to collect Iris when Laura returns to work, so I will be keeping my ears open for any other opportunities, but again, I have no desire to make dozens of the same thing. I use a lot of my stuff myself, and I give quite a bit away too like a box of birthday cards as a present. As a “retired” lady I don’t want the hassle of making stuff to order or in bulk, I get bored easily these days, so making ten of anything would really be enough for me. I suppose it’s the making I like, working to a tight budget, followed by the blogging and sharing ……. selling isn’t that much of a priority at the moment.
The card measures 5ins x 5ins and uses a hand cut, Kraft card blank as a base.
Adding the colour, despite being done very carefully, just looks crude and “unprofessional”, it hasn’t worked, the card doesn’t need it. However, I think adding a trail of translucent glitter through the snow has worked ……. The sentiment was handwritten using a fine liner pen which I think also works, but, could be presented a little better, by mat and layering ………. so it’s back to the drawing board yet again!
House embellishments came from e-bay
