Clipboards and Florals

Hello friends! Welcome back to the blog! I am here today with a short tutorial for some small clipboard tags that I made for the recent release of the Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault series. I combined two of my favorite sets from the release which included Noteworthy and Floristry.

Aren’t they the cutest! I just love having this option to make tiny clipboards that look like REAL tiny clipboards! They would be adorable tied onto a gift or treat bag.

I started by making the tiny clipboards. To do this, I cut two backboards for each board. These were then glued together using Collage Medium. I also cut the 2 parts of the clips from both the Kraft paper and some metallic silver paper. The silver paper was sanded a bit using a sanding disk to give the metallic-ness some age.

After the clipboard bases were adhered together, I adhered the clip base piece and rubbed each of the clipboards with Walnut Stain distress ink using a blending tool. Once each of the boards were rubbed with ink, I spritzed them with some drips of water, then using a heat tool, dried the water droplets. Before the droplets of water were mostly dry, I picked up the rest of the water droplets using a cotton towel. This gives the clipboard bases a vintage look with water staining, as a true vintage clipboard would have.

I adhered the clip pieces together using collage medium, then rubbed each of the clip pieces with Walnut Stain Distress Crayon.

I scribbled a little crayon onto the clip pieces, then rubbed it into each to create some grunge. I adhered the top clip piece onto the clipboard using a piece of foam tab to give the clip some depth and an area where I could attach some items under the clip!

I cut flowers from some inky scrap papers from my stash, then adhered them together to create some variety in the flowers.

I stamped some vintage typing paper using a stamp set (school desk cms057) that had typewritten letters, tore them and wrinkled them up to look vintage, then adhered them together onto the clipboard.

I cut some plain paper using the baseboard of the clipboard. These were then placed behind the clipboard. I used some pieces of cotton string to tie the clipboard together and create the tag look. I adhered numbers to the tags from the idea-ology Clippings Sticker Pack.

With that, my tags were complete!

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