St. Patrick's day tag


Making tags is a fun way to decorate for different holidays.  I currently have some Valentines Day tags displayed and now I'm ready to work on St. Patrick's Day.

To complete this tag, I started with a base of heavy duty cardboard.  It was actually the back of a paper pack that I used up.  It is a heavy duty chipboard material.  I cut it to the size I wanted and painted the front with a base coat of off white/beige.   While it was still slightly damp, I added in some green at the bottom and pulled the color up into the tag about 1/3 of the way up.  The next layer is a flower stencil by Tim Holtz.  I used modeling paste and placed flowers at the upper left and the bottom right.  When that was dried, I used distress paint and slightly brushed it over the stencils.  I used a green color for that.  The last layer was a background type stamp shaped in small circles and randomly applied through some of the middle area of the tag.

Now, I was ready to decorate the tag. I glued on a small white lace doily in the middle, ribbon on the left and used a Julie Nutting doll as my center piece.  The doll is colored in with Copics and the hat and dress where stamped in different papers, fussy cut and applied to the doll.  She has a Shamrock charm attached to her hat.

The bottom left is a St. Patricks Day sprig from the craft store which is cut up and glued down.  I applied a bow over the glue blob to hide it and to add more ribbon.  The butterfly is a craft store item and it was on a thin wire so, it is simply hot glued into the sprig.  The last touch was ribbon at the top and a small Irish themed picture cut and glued under a glass flat square.  The back is covered with scrapbook paper cut to size.