Hello Robot Tags

Humour me, will you? ;) I thought yesterday's card would've helped bring back the mojo but, after I finished it, I spent several hours sitting at my desk staring into space! I admired my stamps and flipped through my inspiration book and still nothing came. Today, I decided to do something fun regardless. For the Hero Arts February Contest, I used Sketch #3 to make a set of tags that could go on gifts or serve as embellishments when attached to cards. I thought these would come in handy for my son's friends when he starts school this fall.

A sentiment like 'Have fun!' or 'You're cool!' would've made more sense but because I am in a funk, my mind was thinking that I had to make this fit all three categories. After I stamped the 'hello' sentiment, I thought I rendered these tags unusable because I didn't think there would be an occasion to send a simple hello card to a little boy. Then I remembered that several of my friends made cards for a little boy named Sebastian so I slightly modified one of the tags and turned it into a card for him. Now I'm thinking, I may have to convert the other two to cards as well!

I just got Echo Park's A Boy's Life so I wanted to cut it up immediately and I'd only used the MFT Die-namics Layered Label Die once since I got it for Christmas. Since a couple of the dies matched the sketch perfectly, I decided to use that as the shape of my tag. I stamped off (or second generation stamped) the Friend Definition on the centre labels directly on patterned paper. Then I stamped the same robot from Robot Trio in three different colours and fussy cut them. I hadn't fussy cut 120lb cardstock in a while and I'd forgotten how painful it was or maybe it was because I'm so out of practice! LOL I punched holes for the burlap string, looped them through and stapled it in place before stamping the sentiment from Essential Messages and adhering the robots with foam tape. Lastly, I added some Stickles to the stars on their chests.

Some of you were shocked that I used a sketch for my last card so I'll explain. I will very rarely use a sketch if it speaks to me and sometimes they do. The Hero Arts February Contest sketches inspire me but I'm not saying the mojo is flowing out from my fingertips the way ideas normally have in the past. I do hope that feeling will return quickly otherwise I will be in a panic soon enough with design team projects and publication calls looming. So now I will go and try to make a different theme of card for the last sketch. ;)

Sources: Echo Park A Boy's Life paper pad; Gina K Designs pure luxury white cardstock; Hero Arts Friend Definition, Robot Trio & Essential Messages; Ranger Distress Inks in Wild Honey, Fired Brick & Broken China; SU Dye Ink in Tangerine Tango, Real Red, Wild Wasabi & Night of Navy; Marvy-Uchida 1/8" long reach circle punch; May Arts burlap string in Natural, Bittersweet & Navy; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; Ranger Stickles in Yellow, Orange Peel & Turquoise; foam tape