My Other Creations: Scrap Tag Notebooks

Flower Power is this week's theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog.  A few months ago, I enjoyed making some scrap tag notebooks so much that I decided to make some more.  Can you spot Tim Holtz's wildflower shapes in the background?

I started by cutting six tags of various sizes out of Strathmore Mixed Media paper.  I used my favorite go-to tag die set: the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Tag Collection.  I folded each tag in half using a scoring board and glued on some patterned paper scraps.  The reason I made a fold line was so that I could see what the cover area would end up being when they were folded in half.

Next I added white paint through stencils for some background texture.

I smeared on various colors of acrylic paint and also added some stamping once the paint dried.

I toned it down with white paint.  I stenciled more white dots on top of the paint with Altenew's Halftone stencil and smeared some more white paint onto different areas.

Next I cut die shapes to use on the covers.  I cut lots of circles and loops and some flowers and outlined the flowers with a black pen.

Here are close-up's of some of the flower elements in place:

I sewed scrap paper inside of each tag using a sewing machine.  I added some words to the front as well as some stamped scraps. I edged out my notebook covers with black paint and black oil pastel crayons smeared a bit.  A paper clip keeps each one closed up nicely.

Here are some supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Wildflowers	Tim Holtz Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection dies	Reverse Confetti Swirlies die cuts	Seth Apter Spellbinders Coffe Ring die	Simon Says Stamp Circle Loops Die Set
Sizzix Big Shot	Scor-Pal Scoring Board	Strathmore Mixed Media Paper	Crate Paper Carousel 12x12 Paper	Happiness is Homemade 12 x 12 paper by Echo Park
Heidi Swapp Hawthorne 12x12 Paper	Simon Says Stamp Stencil LARGE MOROCCAN ssst121345 Pure Sunshine	Altenew Halftone Stencil	Darkroom Door Large Mesh Stencil	Tim Holtz Mixed Media 2 Cling Stamps
Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2018 THEORIES	Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2016 HALFTONE AND RINGS CMS260	Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous REMNANTS	Fiskars Acrylic Blocks	Prima Flowers ARTIST QUALITY OIL PASTEL CRAYONS
Ranger Archival Jet Black Ink Pad	Dina Wakley TURQUOISE Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley Olive Acrylic paint	Dina Wakley Marine Acrylic Paint
Dina Wakley LAPIS Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley TANGERINE Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley LEMON Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Dina Wakley LIME Heavy Body Acrylic Paints	Prima Impasto paint, Crimson
Prima Impasto paint, Pumpkin	Ranger HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL	Ranger Non Stick Craft Sheet	Ranger Fude Ball 1.5 Pen In Black

Be sure to upload your flower power projects to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $50 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.