Tutorial: Homemade Gift Tags

There are many ways to make tags for your gifts, so that your loved ones can see how incredibly crafty you are.... This, is the method that I use, which I find to be very effective.

While nursing today's sunburn, before my upcoming trip to the beach where my family and I will celebrate my dad's birthday, I decided it was time to make my dad's present.

However, I had no idea what I wanted to give my dad, so I decided to make the wrappings and tags first. Since I planned to just use an old paper bag for the wrapping, all I had to do was create the cute little tags.

What you will need is:

• Desired Images
• Printer
• Scissors
• Glue
• Hole Reinforcements

Step One:

The first thing you need to do is find your images, I used some stock images off of Google. Then, take the images into Photoshop or another image editor and desaturate them. Print them out.

Step Two:

Now cut one little pentagon out of the image, you can do whatever shape you want, but I prefer pentagons or circles.

Turn the shape over, and set it face down on the rest of the image, cut out a second shape using your first as a stencil.

As you can see, for this tag, I used two different images.

Step Three:

Now take your shapes and apply glue to the white area on the back. Then, press the two together and allow to dry.

Step Four:

Once your tag has dried, punch a hole though the top and add the hole reinforcements to the front and back of the tag.

Viola! You are done. Add fun string, an perhaps the recipients initials in paint, for more personal touch.

Here are all the cool little tags that I made, the reinforcements will really help them last!

Five Little Updates July-2012

Hello there, if you have visited my blog before (Which you probably haven't..), you may have noticed a few changes to the site. If you are new, stick around, because I'm going to go through the changes.

Number One:

This change is minor, in fact, you might not even notice, I've added a personalized favicon that depicts me sitting on the initials of my blog. Here's a higher quality picture. 

As you can see, I'm very content in this picture...

Number Two:

This second change is bigger, and far more useful. I've added a link bar, so that you can get to all of my little useful links with ease from the top of the page... I link to my home page, my about me page, and my deviant art profile.

Number Three:

This is another small change, but the background of my blog is now a water color mixture thing that I made. :3 It looks like this:

Number Four:

You can now grab buttons for your blogs or websites, whenever you've recreated something I've done, or if you just like my blog. :3 They look like this:

I'm thinking of making another, that is round. 

Number Five: 

There are links to specific things now, such as updates, tutorials, and blogs. :) My blog's interface is now much easier to get around. (Of course there is still the archive that will get you to where you want to be as well. :3

Tutorial: Leopard Print Nails

Tutorial: Leopard Print Nails

After recently purchasing three new OPI colors in 'Wocka Wocka', 'Kyoto Pearl', and 'DS Classic', I've been looking for new interesting ways to use them... I discovered that 'Wocka Wocka' looks pretty good on its own, along with being very pretty with 'Kyoto Pearl' and Sally Hanson's 'Cherry Nice' in water marbling... 'DS Classic', however, is more of a muted gold that by itself while beautiful remains somehow quieter than I expected.

I put my mind to finding a way to use the polish in a creative way that wouldn't diminish the beauty, but rather make it more noticeable, so that I wouldn't grow tired of it so easily. It suddenly hit me after scrutinizing Pinterest last night for DIY things to try, LEOPARD!

What you'll need:

• DS Classic OPI Nail Lacquer(Or another glittery gold color.)
• Any black nail art polish. Alternatively, you could use black nail polish with a toothpick.)
• Clear nail polish. (I used Mary Kay: Quick Dry, which was..... interesting.)
• OPTIONAL: White nail polish.

Let's Get Started!

• First thing's first, begin with clean nails that have been removed of oils, and paint a coat of clear gloss over your nails to protect them from discoloration that can be caused by the lacquer.
• The second step is optional, paint a thin layer of white polish on your nail. (This step will make the color a tad bit more bold, but will also make the polish easier to peel off.)
• Then paint the glittery gold color, in my case I'm using 'DS Classic' by OPI.
• Once the gold is dry, using the black nail art brush paint organic looking 'c' like shapes on your nails.
• Once that is dry paint a clear coat on top to protect your design. 

A good pattern to base your nails off of.

GOOD LUCK!