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| Garden
Tag Card by Diana Swensen |
| Materials
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8 ½” x 11” light
brown and ivory cardstock |
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Fiskars Yellow striped vellum |
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Fiskars Gold paint maker |
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Fiskars ShapeCutter™ |
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Fiskars Tag ShapeTemplate™ |
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Fiskars ¼” hand punch |
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Color Box ink, sunflower, ochre, stucco,
merlot, and roussillion |
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Tsukineko’s Versa mark and gold
Encore ink pads |
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Ranger’s Big and Juicy “Hydrangea”
ink pad |
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Black inkpad |
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Xacto knife |
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Small gold eyelets |
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Various yarns, threads to match card
design |
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Rubber stamps - daisy, dragonfly, word
stamp |
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Sponge stylus |
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| Instructions
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1. |
Cut brown cardstock to 5 ½” x 11”
and fold in half to form card. |
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2. |
Using the dragonfly stamp and the Versa mark pad,
stamp dragonflies, randomly onto the front of the card. |
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3. |
Edge the card with a gold paint pen. |
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4. |
Cut a strip of vellum 4 ¼” x 3 ½”. |
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5. |
Tear vellum from top left corner to right side, just
below the right upper corner. See card sample. |
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6. |
Adhere vellum to front of card with small gold eyelets. |
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7. |
Using the ShapeCutter™ and tag template, cut
“Jumbo” tag out of ivory cardstock. |
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8. |
Using the ¼” hand punch, punch a hole
in the center top of tag. |
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9. |
Stamp daisy with “Big and Juicy” inkpad,
the dragonfly with gold Encore ink and the word stamp with black
ink. |
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10. |
Sponge autumn colored Color Box inks onto tag with
sponge stylus. This technique is called direct to paper. |
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11. |
Add yarn and threads to the tag for decoration. Slip
tag between card and vellum. |
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12. |
Stamp dragonfly onto ivory cardstock and emboss. |
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13. |
Cut out dragonfly design with a Xacto knife and adhere
to bottom left of card. |
