I started by covering my tag in a piece of green printed paper from my packet. I edged it with green ink. I punched a piece of music with a lace edge punch (Martha Stewart-gotta love those Joann coupons!) and edged it with ink. I found this adorable vintage image among my stash and knew it would be perfect for a March tag! I colored it with chalks. I'll describe how I did the lamb later. I put some "Irish Lace" on the bottom and trimmed it with a bit of vintage rick-rack. I found the shamrock stickers in my stash and thought they'd be perfect on a March tag. I cut out a bouquet of daffodils for the little boy to hold. Printed a tag saying out like a lamb, added some glitter and I think it came out really cute!
Since I couldn't find a recipe for Irish tea that didn't involve booze I decided to put a recipe for Irish Scones on the back.
Cloe-up of front of tag!
Here's a quick tutorial on how I made the lamb "fluffy". There is some AWESOME stuff out there called flocking powder. Martha Stewart has some and so does Inkadinkadoo (ACMoore's). It comes in all kinds of colors and adds that vintage flocked look to your cards.
The only problem for me was that it doesn't come in an ivory color. The white was too stark for my lamb
BUT...I found you can mix colors. I added some brown to the white and mixed it to make an off-white color. This means you can customize your colors!!
I added glue to the lamb. I used a thin flowing glue from Martha Stewart. A thicker glue like Aleene's would make the flocking lumpy.
I piled a good bit over the glued area and let it dry. When dry I brushed off the excess.
A cute fuzzy, wooly little lamb!!!
Use the Happy Homemaker Tag-a-long button on my sidebar to take you to our blog where you can visit the links for other March tags!
Thanks for stopping by!
Tamera
