Go tag-tastic in your Spring Inspired

Die-cut your photos into tag shapes to create star quality layouts

Bring the 'wow' factor to your spring layouts with our innovative die cut tag ideas – use them to highlight photos, add eye-catching design elements and to create a standout title.

Flowers bloom

Kit List

◆ Heartfelt Creations Delightful Daffodil Collection Paper Pad

◆ Tonic Studios baker’s twine, yellow and white

◆ Card stock: pink, aqua

◆ Scissors

◆ Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pad, Peacock Feathers

◆ Blender brush

◆ Printer for photos

◆ Acrylic paint, white

◆ Paintbrush

◆ Dies: American Crafts Amy Tan Rise And Shine Scarlett die set (for banner); Tonic Studios Entwining Ivy die set

◆ Nuvo Deluxe adhesive

◆ Sizzix Bigshot die cutting machine

◆ We R Memory Keepers Word Punch Board

◆ Fiskars single hole punch

◆ Glass mat

◆ Paper guillotine

1 On a page of aqua paper from the pad, use a blender brush to blend the ink along the bottom and halfway up the sides.

2 Mix a little white acrylic paint with water on a glass mat then spatter it onto the page with a paintbrush.

3 Die cut two ivy trails from the pink paper in the pad and adhere them along the bottom of the layout in a curve using glue.

4 Fussy cut two daffodils and hyacinths in both pink and purple and glue them on either side of page at the bottom. Position the flowers so the bases are hidden under the ivy leaves.

5 Punch out Where flowers bloom so does faith from pink card then glue aqua card on the back of the strips. Adhere these strips in the middle of the layout at the bottom between the flowers.

6 Print out three photos sized 10cm x 7cm and leave a 5mm white border around them. Punch single holes in the vertical ones along the top at 2cm and 6cm and at 3cm and 7cm on the horizontal photos.

7 Fussy cut a couple of the tags from the pad and punch holes at 2cm and 4cm across the top. Die cut a banner from yellow and another from blue paper.

8 Thread the elements onto 40cm of yellow baker’s twine in this order: tag, banner, photos, banner and tag. Glue them across the top of the page. Make bows each end from the twine then glue the rest of the twine down the sides.

Make in an afternoon

Helping Hand

◆ Start off lightly when blending with ink and brushes and build up the colour as you go along, adding more ink if necessary

◆ Place the paper in an old box when creating the paint spatters to minimise mess!

◆ Fussy cutting elements from a paper pad gives you quick and coordinating embellishments so you don’t need to think so hard!

◆ Distress ink is brighter than distress oxide ink so use it when you want to brighten a page

◆ Use a contrasting paper to frame the layout for extra impact