Holiday Project – Handmade Tags – Watersoluble Crayons

A few months ago, I made some handmade tags for Julie’s handmade for the holidays series. There were six tags and one set of downloads. I will post all of them one at a time during this week.

For all my tags I used manila tags I bought at Office Depot. You can always cut your own tag from cardstock and punch a hole as well.

Here are the steps to this simple tag:
1. For this tag, I wanted to play with water-soluble crayons and sticky-back canvas. I stuck the canvas to my tag and then cut it out.
2. I colored the canvas using three different shades of green and then mixed them with water.
3. I then layered some trim to create a tree.
4. I separated one of my crepe paper embellishments to put the topper on the tree.
5. I cut the circle of the crepe paper down some to be in correct proportion with my tree. I used the cut piece to create the stump of my tree.
6. I added a star sticker on top of my tree topper.
7. I added the word stickers and stitched them down.

Supplies Used: The Girls’ Paperie Tinsel and Twig sticker market, trims, and crepe paper embellishments, Caran D’ache water soluble crayons, and sticky-back canvas. The little star sticker is an old one from Making Memories.

And here’s a movie where I demonstrate how I made the tag:

This was originally posted at Julie Fei-Fan Balzer‘s blog as part of handmade for the holidays series.