Tag, fiber, and heart embellishment is "Stiff Stuff" from the CardLadies. I swiped yellow, red and pink waterproof ink across tag. Covered entire tag with clear embossing ink and then dipped into clear utee thick embossing enamel. Heated with heat gun. Set aside. Heart embellishment, "Stiff Stuff" from theCardLadies. Swiped red and pink across heart, covered with clear embossing ink, dipped in UTEE, and heated. Set aside. Inked up Judi- Kins 2445F stamp with Brillance graphite black inkpad and stamped directly onto UTEE tag and heart.	"Tag Art Calendar"
Gold wired heart and twirled gold embellishment. Outlined tag and heart with gold krylon pen. Hot glued heart and calendar to tag. Calendar is from Vippies. Attached fibers, available from theCardLadies. And stickles clear glitter to heart and gold wired embellishment.

"DaVinci Tag Book" Stamp Artist - Belinda Schneider of Germany Images: Stampington SC-R3145 The Dragonfly, Facade SC-R3136, Male physique SC-R3146, Nature study SC-R3135, The Notice SC-R3139, Sarah SC-R3150, Self portrait SC-R3137 - all available from StampDiva
Instructions - Cut out double tag from cocoa cardstock and fold in middle. Stamp DaVinci self portrait, Stampington & Co., with brown ink on front. Stamp Vision, Stampers Anonymous, with brown ink on top. Mask everything but Leonard da Vinci text off from The Notice, Stampington & Co. and stamp on lower front with black ink. Stamp bottom of self portrait with brown ink on sides of front. Stipple with terra cotta and butterscotch ink. Color edges with black ink. Stamp Sarah, Stampington & Company, with brown ink on back of tag book. Add dot splatters, Stampin'Up!, with brown ink on edges. Stipple with terra cotta and butterscotch ink. Stamp ART, Ma Vinci, on top with brown ink. Color edges with black ink. Stamp The Dragonfly, Stampington & Co., with terra cotta ink on left side. Stamp Male Physique, Ma Vinci, with black ink on right side. Stamp ART, Ma Vinci, on top of male sketch. Stamp The Notice on black ink below the dragonfly. Stamp Nature Study, Stampington & Co., on bottom with black ink. Stamp dot splatters with black ink here and there. Stipple with terra cotta, black and butterscotch ink. Highlight wings with Radiant Pearls (iris, sour lemon, hibiscus and caspian sea). Create two small pockets as tag holders, fold over on three sides. Stamp ART, Ma Vinci, and dot splaters with lettuce ink on one pocket. Stipple with butterscotch, black and lettuce ink. Stamp Human, Cherry Pie, with black ink on other pocket. Stipple with butterscotch and terra cotta ink. Stamp dot splatters with black ink on both pockets. Color edges with black ink. Glue on lower half of inside of tag book. Stamp Nature Study with lettuce ink on small tag. Stamp text on top with lettuce ink. Stipple with lettuce and black ink. Color edges with black ink. Add fibers, Time to Stamp. Stamp Façade, Stampington & Co., with brown ink on small tag. Stipple with butterscotch, terra cotta and black ink. Color edges with black ink. Add fibers, Time to Stamp. Tie tag book together with olive organdy ribbon, Stampin'Up!

"Dragonfly Bookmark" Stamp dragonfly stamp onto sanded clear shrink plastic, using permanent copper ink. I used ZimInk from ZimPrints. Color with pencils or markers Punch hole in tip of one wing with regular size hole punch and use heat gun or toaster over to shrink pieces. (See shrink art tips here.) Attach jump ring to wing through hole. Use deckle scissors to edge 2"x4" grey cardstock. Randomly apply purple, teal and copper UTEE to inked cardstock.	Stamp Artist - Jan Lewellen Image- Stamp Zia
Sprinkle 2 - 3 layers of clear UTEE to inked cardstock. If colored ink is too dry, as mine was, paint on clear embossing ink to form base for UTEE. (See UTEE tips here.) Stamp dragonfly image, inked with bronze or copper pigment (not dye) ink, into hot UTEE and let cool. Seal with clear acrylic spray sealer. Mount onto gold cardstock, mounted onto midnight blue cardstock; punch small hole in top for tassel. Tie on gold embroidery thread, separating the threads and attaching shrink plastic dragonfly and other charms as desired.

"Unfolding Flowers" Contributed by: Linda Reid I printed out tags using the tag program from Red Castle's website.  I chose the oval tags.  I sponged the tags with Adirondack Butterscotch, Pesto and Currant and cut them out.  On each tag I stamped one of gg designs mini florals and filled in the top & bottom using a floral background mini with the Adirondack Rueberry rainbow pad. Then I edged each tag with embossing ink & Powder Keg's Gilded Grape embossing powder - the dangling tag was embossed with "February 2000" embossing powder from Powder Keg's Shot-of-the-month club. I punched holes in all tags & pushed a brass brad through the center.  I attached the last tag with fibers. All stamps are from gg designs floral minis plate

Stamp Artist - Linda Reid

"Gilded Lilies" - January's Stamp Artist of the Month Winner! Contributed by: Ida Abshier
Stamp Artist - Ida Abshier	Stamp entire background using the Calla Lily stamp on the diagonal or in a random fashion on yellow ochre cardstock with clear embossing ink.  Apply gold Pearl Ex or Powdered Peals an seal with a fixative (I used hair spray). Brayer your tag with a rainbow pad, stamp script image on the diagonal in brown ink. Stamp Calla Lily on while, tea dyed, glossy cardstock with black dye ink and watercolor in soft shades. Outline lilies with gold gel pen. Cut around edge and mount on matte gold cardstock. Mount this on a slightly larger piece of contrasting cardstock and attach to the center of the tag. Add fiber tassel to tag and attach to card.

"Romantic Encounter" December's Stamp Artist of the Month Winner! Directions: DTP the two tags in cocoa and dune with slight touch of gold.  Overstamp the ToyBox splatter stamp on this. Punch 2 holes on the bottom of each tag 1/2 inch from each side and 1/4 inch up from the bottom. Place one tag so that thes single hole is facing north and the other so that the single hole is facing south. They should be bottom to bottomm one down and one up. Make a mask of Acey Duecy Keepsake. Stamp another Keepsake image onto parchment cardstock with the Art Brown ink. Cut out and score on the binding line. Flip over the bottom tag (hole facing south) and then place mask on back. Stamp the Dawn Houser script stamp in Art Brown over this. Flip the top tag over and stamp the back of that also. Make sure your script is facing the right direction. Glue down the Keepsake image with glue stick so that it opens up, like the flap of a book. (you can add an accordian page later) Stamp the window and Surrender onto parchment. Cut Surrender out with deckle scissors.  Cut out window part with an exacto.  Place Surrender on tag and window over it. Adjust.  Glue down Surrender.	Stamp Artist - Jean Laveridere
Cut a strip of rug tape to fit on the side of the window. Cut this strip in half. Place the tape as close to the edge of the tag as possible. Put window on top of tape. Your window should be raised from the tag. Stamp Impress phrases onto cardstock. Gently rip the phrases out, removing the name credit but saving them. Smear brown and cocoa ink onto the ripped edges giving the scrappy look definition. Apply a bit of gold ink in the same fashion Arrange and adjust each phrase to the tag collage style and adding the quoted's name under each phrase. Glue down. Using various parts of the postmark stamps, mask the phrase and stamp postmarks here and there giving the illusion of using more stamps. Faux postage Stamp faux postage onto parchement cardstock toward the bottom. You want to leave the same amount (stamp size) of room at the top so you can fold the image over like a mini-card. Cut out. Punch a hole in the middle of the fold. With about 6 inches of crochet thread, thread Eiffel Tower and French Post on each end of one string. Tie a knot and apply glue stick to the backside to catch the string. Fold over and adhere. Stamp and emboss in gold the key and clock. Cut out. Cut out the keyholes. Save the little "life" tag Tie the key to one end of a 6 inch thread. Punch two holes in the clock top and thread the string from back to front to back again tying in a knot then trimming. Tie the little life tag and the Romantic poste to another piece of string. On the tag with the window: cut fibers about 12 inches each. Fold in half and then poke through the hole. Before pulling through, lay the string with the key and postage. and string with Romantic Poste and "life" across the fibers on the looped side. When you pull the fibers through the hole, the strings should be secured. Do the same procedure for the bottom tag using the French Poste and the Eiffel Tower poste. Attach the tags together by threading crochet string through the holes (on the actual bottom of tags) and trimming off the ends. Fold tag up and intertwine the fibers to keep it closed in the up postition. Loosen fibers and the bottom section falls down revealing the phrases. Stamps:   *Acey Deucy: Keepsake 758, Surender 731  -  *Stamplinks: large window *Impress: "Love conquers all things" and "To love is to recieve a glimpse of heaven" Inkadinkadoo: Dawn Hauser Script  -  TooMuchFun: Splatter backgroundStampers Anonymous: French Post, large key Postmarks: Tin Can Mail: Paris/Etranger and Paris /Capucines MJ Stamps: Paris/France  -  Lasting Impressions with Panache: Clock 801-102F Unknown: Eiffel Tower Stamp, Romantic Poste.   *available from StampDiva Other supplies 2 regular sized tags, parchment cardstock, Memories Art Print brown permanent ink, Colorbox: Dune, Cocoa, Encore Gold, Fibers, Gold embossing powder Other tools 1/4 inch punch , stylus, crochet thread, glue stick, rug tape, exacto knife, scissors: regular, deckle

Tag Art Contributed by: Mary Garvey The tag was first stamped in black permanent, then sent through the Xyron adhesive, powdered pearls were added -- and then I embossing the entire tag w/ clear embossing powder. That wasn't enough "umph" for me, so I made the shrink plastic luna moth (just used colored pencils - Prismacolor and a little Lyra Metallic)... then added some beads

Stamp Artist - Mary Garvey

Shadow stamping/Tag Art Submitted by Rebecca Chinn

Stamp Artist - Rebecca Chinn

The best of both worlds is combined in this sample. Tag art is the latest stamping craze.  Tag art is simply decorating an ordinary shipping tag and turning it into a piece of art. Collage techniques are usually used in tag art, but you can use any rubber stamping technique to decorate your tag.  I used another popular stamping technique called shadow stamping. Shadow stamping is simply taking a solid shape, such as a square, rectangle, triangle, or circle, stamping the shape with a subtle color, then overstamping the shape with an image in a darker color. The technique is super easy, but the possibilities are limitless!

Autumn Tags -Featuring Friendly Plastic and Leaf Flakes Submitted by Charmaine Stack
This is three tags in one. The large base tag is an office supply tag beefed up with a layer of black cardstock. The medium tag is actually a piece of Friendly Plastic. The circle tag is also from the office supply store.
Here are the items needed: One large office tag One piece of gold Friendly Plastic One small round metal office tag Piece of black cardstock as big as largest tag ¼ inch wide double sided tape Bronze embossing powder (EP) Clear embossing fluid Multi-colored metal leaf flakes Hero Arts tree stamp PSX leaf stamp Posh sunflower head stamp Copper mica powder (Pearl Ex or Powdered Pearls) Assorted yarns, fibers, beads for embellishment Single hole punch Small piece of sea sponge or old toothbrush Heat tool for embossing Teflon sheet or tin foil Orange Marvy Marker or other felt pen Black dye ink pad	Stamp Artist - Charmaine Stack
Instructions: Base (largest) tag: Using the large office tag as a template, draw around it onto the black cardstock (CS). Then trim that CS ¼ inch smaller than the outline. Set aside. Wrap edge of large tag with double-sided tape, so that half is on front and half is on back of tag. Place foil bits over tape and tap on, then brush excess foil away over container to save for another use. Set tag aside. Heat emboss tree with bronze EP low on black CS. With sea sponge loaded with clear embossing fluid, dab over top portion of CS (or flick with old toothbrush), getting progressively lighter in coverage as you get nearer tree image. Coat with bronze EP, tap off excess, and heat emboss. Affix (with glue or tape) to base large tag. If necessary, punch hole in CS to match hole in tag underneath. Set aside. Ink up leaf stamp and have handy for next step. Take piece of Friendly Plastic and cut so it is about half the length of the base tag. Lay, gold side up, on non-stick Teflon sheet or tin foil, which is flat on an ironing board or other heat resistant surface. Warm up Friendly Plastic with heat tool until it looks soft. Ever-so-gently, set the pre-inked leaf stamp on the Friendly Plastic. Don’t push it down; let it settle gently. The Friendly Plastic will start to cool and harden. Take your hand off the stamp – and WALK AWAY. Do not lift the stamp for at least five minutes. If you let it cool completely, it will release from the plastic without leaving any residue on your stamp. Rub a little Pearl Ex over the leaf impression, if desired. It will stick to residue of embossing ink. Line up plastic on top of lower tag and mark tag hole placement. Punch hole out of Friendly Plastic piece. Set aside. Color small round tag (both sides) with orange marker. Stamp sunflower head within circle. (Do this on top of a mouse pad or thin piece of foam to get the best impression.) Sign the flip side of the round tag. Set aside. Gather various yarns and fibers and group together. Fold lengths in half and pinch fold together. Insert through Friendly Plastic tag from right side, then through lower large tag, then pull up and thread tails through loop to secure onto tags. Thread a bead on if desired, and attach small round tag with metal ring or by threading it on a few strands. Tie a knot close to top, then tie another one further down length. Now you’re finished!

Egyptian treasures Tag Submitted by Kathy LaRocco
Stamp Artist - Kathy LaRocco	Materials Used: Stamps: Horus, Dog, and hieroglyphics all by INKLINKS. The 2 Postoids are by Stamp Out Cute. The key is by Good Stamps, Stamp Goods, and the crackle is the marbling texture cube from Stampendous. Papers: shipping tag INKS: Ranger Archive inks: Sepia and crimson, metallic pigment inks from Colorbox, Red pigment ink from an Option pad, metallic powders such as Powdered Pearls or Pearl-Ex. Other: Beedz, matte fixative, gold leaf pen by Kyrlon. Instructions: The background colors for the tag were a series of Archival type inks including the Sepia color from Ranger. These were applied with a tissue. I then used a Colorbox cats eye in bronze to apply highlights. I went over these highlights with metallic powders. I next added the crackle from the Marble texture cube in sepia. I then stamped the other images.
Again using Archive or Ancient Page type inks. The hieroglyphics were then added using the Versamark pad and then dusted with metallic powders. The piece was sealed with a matte fixative. The UTEE CD embellishment was made following the basic technique that was published in the Sept. issue of Vamp Stamp News. The CD was cut with a snipper type tool and color was added using Fabrico inks. Several layers of UTEE were added and then the Horus stamp was inked in a pigment red and stamped into the last molten layer. Beedz were added and the piece was outlined using a gold leaf pen from Kyrlon. This all sounds like a lot of work but it really was not. The tag took me literally 10 minutes to make after I found the stamps I wanted to use and the CD embellishment maybe 5 minutes.

Tag Art & Crayons Technique Contributed by: Teresa Martinez I rolled out sculpey as thin as I could, pressed random designs in it, baked it, broke off pieces and rubbed with metallic powder. For the tag I used melted crayons. I saw the idea in Somerset Studio, but modified it alot. I sharpen crayons over a big piece of paper and then melt from underneath with my heat gun. then I took a tag or any paper and put it face down on a mix of colors that I like and reheat with the heat gun. You can do it directly on the tag from underneath or sandwich 2 together and get a mirror image. Also, if you use the crayon thick you can impress the stamped image like in wax. In the stamp art example on the right, it was a thin coat so I just stamped over the hard crayon.

Stamp Artist - Teresa Martinez