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If you have small bits of pretty patterned paper leftover from other projects you can make your own tags. Or any kind of scrap groupings like this.
Personally I love randomly grabbing two little bits and letting them run through the sewing machine. I love putting favorite colors together, or grouping my scraps together with similar colors in a monochrome way.
For these I cut some leftover white cardstock into tags and then added scraps with the sewing machine.
I used scrapbook paper, wallpaper samples, prints, wrapping paper, magazine patterns, cut up cards & other bits of interest. Non of them are straight, or “perfect”, but I love them.
Once I had threaded the sewing machine I couldn’t stop. I just wanted to keep making these tags!
You can use tags like these as gift tags on birthday gifts or flowers, or as additional embellishments in your art journal. Tuck them into secret envelopes or use magic tape to tape them in as extra little flip-up page or flaps on art journal spreads or in your junk journal.
The possibilities are endless.
Write something on the back, or glue on an image or photo…
Sewing tags is similar to making sewn diy postcards, something I also love creating. But it’s been a while since I sewed on paper, so this time I wanted to go smaller. Plus I wanted to use up some tiny scraps that I had gathered on my desk.
You can also keep going to create franken-papers or pages for your journal. If you sew the scraps to thin copypaper you can also glue the final thing directly to your project.
You can line the scrap up next to another one, or layer several together under the needle.
Another idea that I’ll experiment more with during my next sewing session is sewing a children’s book illustration to cardstock:
Machine sewing an illustration to a paper tag.
I am pleased by the look of my little tags, and I love the process so much.
Be warned though, sewing on papers is addictive.
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The post is written by Hanna Andersson and Sewing on paper tags first appeared on iHannas Blog.
Personally I love randomly grabbing two little bits and letting them run through the sewing machine. I love putting favorite colors together, or grouping my scraps together with similar colors in a monochrome way.
For these I cut some leftover white cardstock into tags and then added scraps with the sewing machine.
I used scrapbook paper, wallpaper samples, prints, wrapping paper, magazine patterns, cut up cards & other bits of interest. Non of them are straight, or “perfect”, but I love them.
Once I had threaded the sewing machine I couldn’t stop. I just wanted to keep making these tags!
You can use tags like these as gift tags on birthday gifts or flowers, or as additional embellishments in your art journal. Tuck them into secret envelopes or use magic tape to tape them in as extra little flip-up page or flaps on art journal spreads or in your junk journal.
The possibilities are endless.
Write something on the back, or glue on an image or photo…
Sewing tags is similar to making sewn diy postcards, something I also love creating. But it’s been a while since I sewed on paper, so this time I wanted to go smaller. Plus I wanted to use up some tiny scraps that I had gathered on my desk.
You can also keep going to create franken-papers or pages for your journal. If you sew the scraps to thin copypaper you can also glue the final thing directly to your project.
You can line the scrap up next to another one, or layer several together under the needle.
Another idea that I’ll experiment more with during my next sewing session is sewing a children’s book illustration to cardstock:
Machine sewing an illustration to a paper tag.
I am pleased by the look of my little tags, and I love the process so much.
Be warned though, sewing on papers is addictive.
Sign up for the Studio iHanna Newsletter here
Books on art, crafts & creativity
Read about this lill’ workshop here
The post is written by Hanna Andersson and Sewing on paper tags first appeared on iHannas Blog.