Hohoho How To Brand Awesome Hang Tags

These tags brand dandy personal touches for gifts, or, if you’re a crafty, usage them inward altered fine art together with scrapbooking projects. If y'all sell your work, usage these equally jewelry cards or hang tags for your handcrafted items, equally I bring done above.

Supplies needed:

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

Teabags together with hot H2O to brew some potent tea (or y'all tin lav usage coffee)

Medium sized stovetop pot or bowl to soak tags in

cookie canvass together with oven to dry out tags

rubber stamps together with inkpad for stamping tags amongst designs

Other Optional supplies & embellishments:

Spray bottle (optional)

Ribbon scraps

Carnival tickets (office provide stores, Walmart, together with Party provide stores)

Misc. ephemera

Glue stick

STEP 1

Brew a potent pot of tea together with when cooled, pour it into a medium pot (I continue the teabags in). You tin lav brew the teabags correct inward the pot on the stovetop. I usage near vi teabags per every iv cups of water. If y'all prefer y'all tin lav usage java instead of tea.

STEP 2

Submerge together with soak the manila tags inward the cooled tea until stained together with saturated. They produce non bring to live on evenly stained. The less-even the stains are, the better. You tin lav either merely dip them for a lighter look, or y'all tin lav allow them to soak for a spell for a deeper shade. Experiment until y'all make the expect y'all like.

STEP 3

When the tags are the color y'all like, withdraw them from the tea soak together with lightly blot them on an quondam tea towel. Next, accommodate them on a cookie canvass together with bake inward a warm oven (about 200-250 degrees F) until they laid out to dry. Watch them carefully therefore that y'all produce non dismiss them. Then withdraw them from the oven.

when dry, your tags should expect similar this

STEP 4

This measurement is optional, but I similar to teach 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 y'all don't wishing to usage a spray bottle y'all tin lav merely randomly drip the tea on your tags. This measurement helps them expect quondam together with worn or grungy: that is the expect nosotros are going for. Bake in i lawsuit to a greater extent than for merely a few minutes until dry out together with withdraw from oven.

I honey drip stains on my tags!

STEP 5

Embellishing: Once your tags are completely dry out y'all tin lav safe postage stamp them amongst designs. Using the safe postage stamp together with postage stamp pad, postage stamp your tags amongst any designs y'all desire. Some dainty stamps that I similar to usage are seasonal designs together with nature designs. You tin lav terminate hither together with usage 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 inward the tag together with necktie for a colorful expect (see below).

Just thread the ribbon through the hole...

...and together with therefore necktie inward a uncomplicated knot

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

Getting Fancy

*Use safe stamps to decorate carnival tickets, punch a hole inward each amongst a hole-punch together with and therefore attach these amongst ribbon through the hole on the tag (as shown above). Or, if y'all prefer, usage a gum stick together with gum the carnival ticket straight to the tag.

You tin lav purchase carnival tickets past times the roll

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

a colorful, whimsical look

A Few Other Ideas

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

*Add some color to your safe postage stamp designs past times 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 equally tags for items y'all are going to sell or equally jewelry cards, usage the contrary side to write pertinent information near your exceptional (such equally materials used, etc), or, postage stamp the contrary side amongst a sticker or personalized safe postage stamp to advertise your concern holler and/or website. I had a custom safe postage stamp made past times Etsy seller terbearco, together with I honey it!