When I hear or read the words, "baker's twine", I get nostalgic and remember standing in a bakery, looking up on a big spool of baker's twine hanging from the ceiling to tie up outgoing white packages filled with freshly-baked goodies. Baker's twine has gained so much popularity since those days, basically for its alternate uses in crafting projects such as being used to add a chic touch to a pretty package, as strings for tags, or for scrapbooking. (See this round-up of inspiring uses for baker's twine.)
I decided to order a spool of baker's twine from The Twinery one to tie my outgoing packages of framed prints or maybe to tie around the soon-to-be released 2011 calendars! (Bam! Just snuck a sneak peak on ya!)
When my spool arrived, I ended up also using it to make some tags as a "cheer-me-up" surprise for a friend going through a tough health situation and I took some photos of the process.
First, I designed and a letter-sized printable sheet of tags - you can download the printable tags freebie here. It prints nicely onto letter-sized paper.
Printed the file on Strathmore Bristol Vellum paper,
Trimmed the tags down to size,
and just because I like rounded corners, I rounded the corners with my We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile corner chomper,
Then I used the We R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile eyelet punch toolto punch a hole where I was planning to string the twine,
and threaded the twine through the hole to finish off the tag!
I love the teal and white color that I purchased but The Twinery also has a sampler pack with 8 colors in it! Don't forget to enter my giveaway for a spool of your choice or a sampler pack!
These are so cute. Thanks Grace for generously sharing them with us. Wonderful tutorial too!
Hugs...Tracy :)
Posted by: Tracy @ Cotton Pickin Cute | August 14, 2010 at 03:15 AM
These tags are sooo fabulous! TFS!!!
Posted by: Marge R. | August 18, 2010 at 04:23 AM
Just tweeted about the giveaway!
http://twitter.com/laurenwsmith/status/21500724222
Posted by: Lauren Essl | August 18, 2010 at 12:00 PM
LOVE these tags!! brilliant!
Posted by: Stephanie M | August 19, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Love the maraschino - red and white eco-luxe baker's twine!
http://www.thetwinery.com/product/maraschino-red-white-eco-luxe-bakers-twine
Posted by: Agnes | August 19, 2010 at 06:26 PM
Love all the colors of twine!!! And the tags are awesome too :)
Posted by: Yvette | August 20, 2010 at 08:46 PM
love those tags! thanks for dropping by and left your blog address... great find here!!!
Posted by: Pooi | August 20, 2010 at 08:47 PM
Gorgeous, thank you!
Posted by: tammy | August 25, 2010 at 02:04 PM
What a cute set of tgs. thansk so very much for sharing them with us.
Posted by: Lyla | June 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Thanks so much for the free file. I already printed it and it's gorgeous.
Posted by: Pam | June 28, 2011 at 07:21 PM
very cute, thank you
Posted by: joyce | July 13, 2011 at 07:41 PM
these are beautiful and i can't wait to use them, thank you. I am also enjoying all of the fantastic inspiration here.
xoxo
Posted by: Vicki | August 07, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Thank you very much for the printable. It is beautiful. I found it on Pinterest.
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Robin Thomas | December 30, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Thank you so much for these very pretty tags. you are so sweet to share them.
Posted by: fran | December 09, 2012 at 09:51 PM