I have a retro green faux leather container on my desk that says "knotted string, dirty erasers, ungummed stamps, leaky pens, dull thumb tacks" etc etc. Those are things that so often end up in a junk drawer or cluttering our desks- because we just can't bring ourselves to throw them away because we MIGHT need them someday. To that, I have to add Vintage Wallpaper- I can't stand to throw away a piece if it has the tinest bit of pattern.
One of the things I do with these bits and pieces is glue them down in a "sort of random, sort of planned" way on cardstock, and use my Cuttlebug to make tags.
Sometimes I throw in a bit of other paper for contrast- like this ledger paper.
The yellow that you see under my cardstock is the Yellowpages. I use them to glue on. Once a page gets glue on it, I just rip it off and have a clean surface to glue on.
I use my Cuttlebug and a tag shaped diecut from Sizzix to cut tags, but you can use a handheld paper punch too.
One thing I think is fun it to see just how the tags turn out- sometimes the collaged paper looks a little messy, but the tags almost always turn out pretty.
This:
turned into this:
THIS:
turned into this:
THIS:
turned into this. (This isn't even wallpaper- its an old cigar box label, some old text, scrapbookpaper and some old marblized end paper)
And the scraps at the top of the post, turned into this:
(That's my favorite)
