Playing with birds and a stinky dog

Good Sunday! First of all thank you for 20'000 page views!! I feel so flattered! :)

This morning Abby came back inside all stinky. She perfumed herself with fox dung and felt oh so good. Yuck! Hello spring... :)

I still can't do much today but in a pain-free minute I managed it to take some pictures of the tags I did last week. They are very easy to make.
Look for pictures ( you can find royalty free pictures on The Graphics Fairy's blog) but make sure they are royalty free in your country too especially if you'd like to sell the tags.
Arrange them as you wish, print, cut, pierce and use hemp or burlap twine or a ribbon that matches the colors of the graphic. Done.
I keep using mat photo paper or marbled paper, mostly in brown. If you wish you can add age with a wet teabag or coffee ground. Just press it onto the paper and add stains. It's a lot of fun to play with it.
Tags are great to decorate all kind of things, not only gifts.

Have a great rest of the weekend!
Much love, Dina

Tags go multifunctional

What a week! But I finally found some time to relax this past weekend. Of course I could not sit still for longer than an hour or two.

I was working on some cool vintage tags using two beautiful images I found on Karen's blog , The Graphics Fairy.

I ripped the paper around the images and distressed the tags and the images with distressing ink and glued the images onto the tags.

Then I ripped some stripes off of fabric, scrunched them and bound them erratic (is that an english word??) onto the tags. On some I also used lace trim.

I used little metal keys, hearts and knickknacks to decorate.

Those tags also look great on a bottle or for decoration of anything. Even on or in books they look awesome.

I thought I would leave them blank (without any inscription on them) because they look very "summer-like" but I will also do some more with inscription.

And here there are some of them.

They are for sale on my shop too ;)