Santa Tags

So you have finished dying your bottle brush trees and there is still dye left in the bowl. 




I am not one to waste anything so I always have cloth or shipping tags at hand to soak up the rest of the dye.

I buy the tags by the thousand.

Pre-strung.

I leave the strings on when dying, but may replace them with ribbon later. 

I put a handful into the dye making sure they do not stick together.

Stir.

Using a metal spoon or paint stick crease the tags for a more distressed look.

I place them outside on screens to dry.

Watch out for the drips if you choose to dry inside.

The dye is permanent on most surfaces.

It takes several hours for them to dry.

This is Apple Green Rit Dye.

 Aqua Blue.

Petal Pink.

I used Old World Santa images to make the tags.

Mod Podge the images to the tags.

Added a layer of Mod Podge over the entire tag.

Painted a gold edge.

Left the back plain for Christmas messages of cheer.





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Friday Finds

I am in a deep junk funk.

I walk the aisles of thrift stores and nothing appeals to me.

I am sure there is a cure.

 

But in the meantime I dabble in a little online  shopping.

From Janice (Curtains In My Tree blog) I purchased these cute Bitterman candy bags.

I thought they would make adorable tags.

And guess what Janice included in her package?

An adorable tag!

Here's the front.

Here's the back.

Be sure to visit her Etsy shop also named  Curtains In My Tree.

Small round-bottomed zinc pots.

Small flat-bottomed zinc pots.

Fifty zinc pots in all.

Thanks to  Caspar & Gerard's Antiques.

Go drool over their gallery HERE.

This is not an original idea, but a couple of years ago Chucks wired one of those round drying racks for a hanging lamp.

I hung zinc pots from it.

I had gathered items, bags, and newspapers for the thrift store.

I shopped for a bit.

Found this blue quilt for Chucks and Willie.

A red plaid Thermos.

A lovely china pitcher with pink flowers.

I bought stacks of books.

I bought a beige area rug.

I bought four cans of spray paint.

That's it.

I'm in a junk funk.

A deep junk funk.


See y'all!

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Quickies - In The Pink!

This Sunday's Quickies post is brought to you by the color Rose Pink - Rit Liquid Dye.

First up are wooden clothes pins - bare wood, no varnish.

A big stainless bowl filled with hot water and Rose Pink dye.

Keep stirring the pins around to dye evenly.

I kept them in for about five minutes.

Next  torn French dictionary pages. 

A quick dunk - flipped front to back and out of there.

Drying on the screen outside.

I placed another screen over the top to keep the pages from blowing away.

I continue to dye as long as there is dye in the water.

Torn cotton ribbons soaking wet.

They dye better wet.

The dye looks stronger than it is.

Cloth soaks for about ten minutes.

Stirring to get into every crevice.

There was still dye in the water.

So I tossed in a handful of shipping tags - six at a time.

Stir these while creasing with a metal spoon to create distress marks.

Then out to a screen to dry in the sun.











The pages dried to a pale pink.

The clothes pins are more rosy.

Ready to use in various projects.

About forty minutes from prep to drying stage.

The cloth and the tags take the longest to dry.  

Plan on a couple of hours.

A sneak peek on what will happen to the pink tags.











A few of these projects will be at Magnolia Ridge.







See y'all!

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Quickies

This is a great project when you are binge watching TV shows.

I sorted through the snapshots I bought in January to pick ones I especially liked.

Scanned them into my computer.

Printed them out nine to a page.

Even if the photos are different sizes, this step will make them all the same size.






 

Selected odd trims and laces from my stash to attach to the bottoms after cutting each photo out with craft scissors.

Since the photos have a sepia hue, I wanted to cover the punched holes with a brown kraft paper reinforcement.

However I was out of those.

So I took several sheets of the white ones outside and spritzed them with walnut ink.

Left them in the sun to dry.

Yes, they are still sticky after dying.

I do like the look, but I have ordered more brown kraft paper ones for next time.
Sometimes I can be lazy.

Used seam binding, ribbon, rick rack, and twine to make ties for each tag.

Oh, I forgot to tell you this project is about making tags.

Yes, little photo tags to attach to kraft paper shopping bags.

I have completed several dozen bags in two sizes.

WHY?

I have been invited to participate in the annual Magnolia Ridge Antiques & Art Gathering on May 21 in Ridge Spring, South Carolina.

Yes, my junk will be traveling!

If you are within 150 miles, it is worth the trip.

For a look at last year's Gathering go HERE!
 
See y'all!

My Etsy shop is on vacation so I can clean up a bit and clear out items lingering too long.

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