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After spending time making wonderful handmade cards, wouldn’t it be nice to finish the package with a co-ordinating tag? In last weeks video I showed how to make a selection of tag bases, in today’s post I’d like to share a tutorial for how to decorate those tags for your gifts. If you missed last weeks film, check out the links at the end of the article.
Decorating your tags
You Will Need
- A4 Card stock, plain or decorative
- Cutting Mat
- Craft knife
- Metal Ruler
- Rubber stamps to match/co-ordinate with your card design
- Inks
- Cut n dry foam (optional)
- Crop A Dile or other hole punch
- Thread or ribbon in co-ordinating colours.
- Corner rounder
- Cuttlebug & Embossing folders (optional)
Method
- Cut your A4 cardstock to 4 1/8″ x 2 1/4″. You will get ten tags this size from A4 card
- To add decorative panels to your base tags, trim 1/4″ from one short side and one long side
- Using the grid on your cutting mat as a guide trim off the corners from the two top edges of your cardstock panel, to correspond to the base tag.
- If you wish to ink, stamp and layer card onto your tag, do this next.
- Stamp your images and greeting onto the back panel of the tag, and attach them.
- Finally use your hole punch to punch a hole at the top of the tag, and use pretty ribbon or baker’s Twine for a retro style to finish your tag.
Optional Extra’s
- Add dimension or highlight colours by matting your finished tag on to coloured or metallic cardstock.
- Create a boarder to your tag by running metallic pen around the edges of your tag.
- If you are short on time, print decorative papers or designs from your computer and layer those on to heavier card.
- For fancy shaped tags, cut your base tag using Spellbinder dies, or your favorite die design. Create your decorative layer and layer to write on from a smaller sized die.
Add your personal message to the back of your tag, including who the gift is for and who it is from 
Links
Quick & Easy Tags; Part 1 In this film I showed how to create your base tags. Which are the one’s I decorated in today’s film.
I hope you have enjoyed this film and project. Do leave me a comment to let me know what you think. Have you made tags with this tutorial? Add a link to your finished tags with your comment, it would be nice to see what you make.
Best wishes and thanks for reading, see you soon
Billie 
Love your videos and blog Billie. You have a lovely friendly, easy style that is such a joy to watch and listen to. I am inspired to make more tags for my gifts this year, it’s the one thing that tends to get put by and forgotten about until a tag is needed
Lynn
Hi Lynn
Aww thanks
I found the basic concept in a scrapbooking book years ago and expanded it to include corner rounding and the different options at the top of the tag. It’s a good way to use up odds n ends of cardstock and papers, I hate to throw paper away even if its only a scrappy little bit.
When you find a card you like, it doesn’t take long to make a pile of blank tags. Then you just decorate them as and when you need them
Best wishes
Billie
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