Textured Punch Techniques

Tags are a popular material in scrapbooking these days. Guest Joy Macdonell shares two techniques that dress tags in color and texture.

My Girl...I Love You

Materials and Tools:

circle, square, retro flower and daisy punches
screen
washers and wire
paper fasteners
leather pieces
sewing machine
card stock
beads
photo

Steps:

1. Punch screen using the different punch shapes.

2. Adorn punched screen pieces with washers, wire, brads, and beads.

3. Adhere screen punched pieces to random shapes of leather.

4. Sew the leather shapes to a border strip of cardstock using a sewing machine and extended stitch length.

5. Adhere the border to the bottom of a piece of cardstock. Cut scraps of leather and attach to the border strip using paper fasteners.

6. Arrange photos and add title.

My Child

Materials and Tools:

fibers
scroll and Brush Markers
themed title stickers
makeup sponge
circle tags
card stock in celery green, dark blue and periwinkle (or colors of your choice)
foot punch
paper fasteners

Steps:

1. Apply color from brush marker directly to make-up sponge, then sponge the color onto the white circle tag.

2. Use foot punch to punch center of circle tag and add vellum or cardstock underneath to show through open space.

3. Tear a piece of celery green cardstock and attach it to the left side of a 12 x 12" piece of blue cardstock.

4. Print poem of your choice onto an 8-1/2" x 11" piece of periwinkle blue cardstock (landscape position), tear around poem and attach to the bottom of the 12 x 12" blue cardstock.

5. Adhere title sticker to a celery green rectangle of cardstock. Mat with a dark blue and periwinkle blue cardstock.

6. Mat and adhere the photographs to the page.

7. Use fibers to hang punched tags from a paper fastener.