Tags are extremely versatile and are a great form of embellishment. The following layout shows how to use tags as a mat for your stickers and how to create a unique border with them.

This layout was created using pink patterned paper, rusty orange patterned paper, green cardstock, blue cardstock, green ink pad, blue ink pad, blue wool and Suzy's Zoo Friends stickers.

To create the background, use a small green ink pad and dab it haphazardly all over the green cardstock. Set it aside and allow it to dry.

Next, cut five identical tags from your blue cardstock. Dab them with a small blue ink pad to create a similar effect to the one on your green background. Again, set them aside to dry.

While everything is drying, mat your photo on blue cardstock and then pink paper. Instead of using straight edges on the pink paper, try tearing them. You can add the 'Friends' stickers to the corners of your photo if you wish. Also cut six small squares from your blue cardstock. Decorate four of them with blue flower stickers from your sticker sheet and two with white daisy stickers. Mat the blue flowers on pink paper and the white flowers on rusty orange paper. Again, tear the edges for added effect.

When everything is dry, you can begin working on your background page. To create the border, place a piece of torn pink paper across the bottom of your page. Take the height of your tags into consideration when choosing the height of your pink paper. Place a strip of rusty orange paper on top. Its height should be about a third of the height of the pink strip. 

Punch a hole in the top of each tag and thread your blue wool fibre through. Adhere one character sticker to each tag and arrange across your border. Position the rest of your page elements and glue down.

Tags don't always have to be complicated to be effective. The tags on this layout are extremely simple to make and yet by arranging them as a border across the bottom of the page, we end up with a well co-ordinated and well structured page. This concept can be adapted to any theme. Why not give it a go and see what you come up with!

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