Hope!! How To Brand Awesome Hang Tags

These tags brand groovy personal touches for gifts, or, if you’re a crafty, exercise them inwards altered fine art too scrapbooking projects. If you lot sell your work, exercise these every bit jewelry cards or hang tags for your handcrafted items, every bit I accept done above.

Supplies needed:

Manila hang tags –available at business office provide stores, or if you lot prefer you lot tin cutting your ain from cardstock. I prefer to exercise the purchased ones, merely because it is to a greater extent than fourth dimension efficient for me.

Teabags too hot H2O to brew some rigid tea (or you lot tin exercise coffee)

Medium sized stovetop pot or bowl to soak tags in

cookie canvas too oven to dry out tags

rubber stamps too inkpad for stamping tags amongst designs

Other Optional supplies & embellishments:

Spray bottle (optional)

Ribbon scraps

Carnival tickets (office provide stores, Walmart, too Party provide stores)

Misc. ephemera

Glue stick

STEP 1

Brew a rigid pot of tea too when cooled, pour it into a medium pot (I proceed the teabags in). You tin brew the teabags correct inwards the pot on the stovetop. I exercise well-nigh six teabags per every iv cups of water. If you lot prefer you lot tin exercise java instead of tea.

STEP 2

Submerge too soak the manila tags inwards the cooled tea until stained too saturated. They produce non accept to last evenly stained. The less-even the stains are, the better. You tin either merely dip them for a lighter look, or you lot tin allow them to soak for a land for a deeper shade. Experiment until you lot accomplish the expect you lot like.

STEP 3

When the tags are the color you lot like, take them from the tea soak too lightly blot them on an one-time tea towel. Next, adjust them on a cookie canvas too bake inwards a warm oven (about 200-250 degrees F) until they start to dry. Watch them carefully hence that you lot produce non burn downwards them. Then take them from the oven.

when dry, your tags should expect similar this

STEP 4

This measurement is optional, but I similar to become the extra mile for the look: spritz the tags amongst a spray bottle filled amongst tea or java to add together some extra, darker stain marks. If you lot don't wishing to exercise a spray bottle you lot tin merely randomly drip the tea on your tags. This measurement helps them expect one-time too worn or grungy: that is the expect nosotros are going for. Bake 1 time to a greater extent than for merely a few minutes until dry out too take from oven.

I dearest drip stains on my tags!

STEP 5

Embellishing: Once your tags are completely dry out you lot tin security postage stamp them amongst designs. Using the security postage stamp too postage stamp pad, postage stamp your tags amongst any designs you lot desire. Some overnice stamps that I similar to exercise are seasonal designs too nature designs. You tin goal hither too exercise your tags as-is, or read on for to a greater extent than embellishment ideas.

For Those Who Want More

*Thread a few scraps of ribbon through the hole inwards the tag too necktie for a colorful expect (see below).

Just thread the ribbon through the hole...

...and too hence necktie inwards a uncomplicated knot

I coordinated these earrings to the ribbons to consummate the look!

Getting Fancy

*Use security stamps to decorate carnival tickets, punch a hole inwards each amongst a hole-punch too and hence attach these amongst ribbon through the hole on the tag (as shown above). Or, if you lot prefer, exercise a gum stick too gum the carnival ticket straight to the tag.

You tin purchase carnival tickets yesteryear the roll

use a simple, pocket-size postage stamp on the carnival tickets

a colorful, whimsical look

A Few Other Ideas

*Distress the edges of your tags yesteryear running the border of the tag along the postage stamp pad or yesteryear tracing along the border of the tag amongst a marker.

*Add some color to your security postage stamp designs yesteryear coloring amongst colored pencil.

*Add vintage ephemera to your tags amongst a gum stick for an altered fine art look.

*Good idea: If you’re using these every bit tags for items you lot are going to sell or every bit jewelry cards, exercise the contrary side to write pertinent information well-nigh your detail (such every bit materials used, etc), or, postage stamp the contrary side amongst a sticker or personalized security postage stamp to advertise your trouble concern yell and/or website. I had a custom security postage stamp made yesteryear Etsy seller terbearco, too I dearest it!