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Totally Tags!

By Nicole Leon
Off Road Inksters
Intermediate Scramping Design Team 

Supply List:
8 ½ x 11 scrapbook page
Soft Spoken stamp set (TAC)
Cactus Blossom Chalk Ink Pad (TAC)
SEI Kate Cardstock Papers (TAC)
White UTEE & UTEE Flex (Grand Illusions)
Sizzix Traditional Tags Combo (Sizzix)
Twine (Home Depot)
Embroidery Floss (Michaels)
Buttons (Jo-Ann)
Avon Brilliant White cardstock (Kelly Paper)
Mini Clothespins (Dollar Bill Store)
Mauve, Light Blue, and Moss cardstock
Sticko Mini Envelopes-used as a template (Wal-Mart)
Tacky Tape (Art Accentz)
Scotch Foam Tape (Scotch)
Colorbox Black Chalk Ink Pad (Colorbox)
Hot Glue Gun (Michaels)
Craft sheet (Suze Weinberg ~*TAC)
Melt Art Melting Pot (Suze Weinberg ~*TAC)
Melt Art Kool Tolz (Suze Weinberg ~*TAC)
MonoAdhesive (Tombow)
White Craft Glue (Jo~Ann)
12” inch paper trimmer (Fiskars)
 

Instructions:

1. Cut white cardstock to 3 1/4 “x 11”size, cut 1 strip: 1 ½” x 8 ½”, and cut 2 strips: ½” x 8 ½” of the Kate SEI papers. Crumble white cardstock and smooth out.  Apply Cactus Blossom chalk ink pad directly to cardstock. Attach to the mauve cardstock using MonoAdhesive.

2.  Using Sizzix Traditional Tags Combo die, cut three tags in the second and third smallest sizes in the Mauve, Light Blue, and Moss cardstocks.

3.  Stamp on the small tag with the Colorbox Black Chalk inkpad with the Soft Spoken stamps.  Attach the small tags to the larger tags with the Scotch Foam tape.  Attach twine and wrap the twine around the page. Apply a small bead of hot glue to the underside of the tag to adhere the twine. Do this for each tag.

4.  Using the mini envelope as a template, open up the envelope and trace the pattern onto the SEI paper.  Cut out pattern and fold into envelope using MonoAdhesive.  Adhere the envelope to the cardstock with Scotch foam tape.  Adhere buttons to the flaps of the mini envelope using white glue and allow to dry.

5.  Ivory faux pebble:  Put 4 oz. of white UTEE in the melting pot and heat it until all has melted.  After UTEE has melted, put a tablespoon scoop of UTEE Flex into the melting pot.  After the UTEE Flex has melted, stir the mixture around slowly twice with a Kool Tolz spatula.

6.  Pour a small amount of the melted UTEE on the craft sheet.  Ink up the Priceless stamp with the Cactus Blossom Chalk ink pad.  Immediately stamp in the hot UTEE.  Allow UTEE to cool and carefully remove the stamp.  Adhere the UTEE pebble using Tacky Tape to the cardstock.

7.  Wrap around 9 strands of the twine to the edge of cardstock and tape the loose ends to back of cardstock. 

8.  Add the clothespins to various strands of the twine.

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