A Vintage Style Tag with Robyn Wood

Hello! It’s Robyn Wood with you today sharing a vintage style, layered tag featuring Helmar adhesive that I’ve made using a bunch of items from my stash.

I found a coloured tag in my stash and decided to select a few items to go with it to create a project for this month. I always have bits & pieces left over from creative sessions and I tend to keep anything that could be remotely useful. Aside from saving a bit of creative time, I find the pieces tend to spark different ideas that are often totally different from the original project! Nice & handy when the creative mojo is on a holiday.

I also found this sweet pair of girls from the Tim Holtz Paper Dolls pack and decided they needed a starring roll in my project. I started by layering some papers onto my tag and adhering them with Helmar Tacky Craft Glue.

The girls needed some hats to hint at their playful personalities – vintage photos always look so serious! I cut a pair of tall hats from a scrap of sheet music and coloured them before adding to the girls along with a few flags across the top of the tag. The pieces were adhered with Helmar Tacky Craft Glue & I also used a little Helmar Scrap Dots to give a few of the flag pieces some dimension.

I noticed that the lyrics provided an interesting phrase for my tag, so the words were trimmed closely and adhered to a larger piece of cream paper. They were then trimmed again, leaving a small border and adhered to the tag using Helmar Scrap Dots for a touch of dimension.

The hats needed a little extra so I spread a little Helmar Tacky Craft Glue over parts of the hats and sprinkled with Tim Holtz Distress Glitter. Using a fine black pen, I edged the tag with a think line of faux stitching. At the last minute, I decided the text paper in the background needed a little colour, so used a small sponge to ink some brown onto the background and around the girls.

To finish the tag, I added a pair of buttons tied with twine to the girls hats using Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive. I find that when sticking anything to a glittered surface, you need the strength of 450 Quick Dry.

Supplies:
Helmar Tacky Craft Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
Helmar Scrap Dots
Tim Holtz Paper Dolls & Distress Glitter

I enjoyed putting this sweet tag together, I hope you it inspires you to create something similar. Until next time…