Hello everyone!

A busy person who happens to also be a crafter…is…well…busy! Meaning sometimes there is no time to craft. Sometimes though, there’s a 10 minute window.

This tag, is for that 10 minute window.

The YouTube tutorial can be found here: Make a tag in 10 minutes! -- A 10 min Craft video

But just in case, here’s the written version!

Enjoy!

The first step, is to gather materials:

• Ephemera

• String

• Book pages (about 5 or 6)

• Glue

• Gesso

• Crop-a-dile or something similar

• Eyelets

• Sewing machine

• Scissors

• Stamp

• Stamp pad

• Washi tape

Step two:

Sew the 5 or so book pages together in a small square using the sewing machine.

So that it looks like this:

Step three:

Cut out the square

Step four:

Glue some ephemera and add some washi tape.

In this case, I just added a piece of torn book page (from a different book. You can see that it’s darker than the pages used to make the main tag part). Then I added a bit of washi tape.

Step five:

Stamp on an image.

Here I used a small dragonfly stamp and archival black ink.

Step six:

Punch a hole at the top and add an eyelet.

Step seven:

Use some string (which is what I used) or ribbon and thread it through the eyelet, then tie off.

Step eight (final step):

Add some gesso on the back to create a blank space for writing on.

And that’s it! You’re done! Woo hoo!

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial! Let me know what you think, and how it went for you! Feel free to send me pictures of your tags too! That’d be awesome and I’ll share it in the blog!

Now get back out there and do whatever it is that you had a ten minute break from with renewed vigor and satisfaction!

Cheers!