 Thank you for stopping by and welcome to Little Show and Tell. I hope this doesn't take too long, but there's a lot on the table. Craft show. These are some little tag ephemera holders. I am going to do a separate video post and I'll put the link where I learned how to make them. Now this first one is my spin on her inspiration. But I'm going to put the video anyway in case you want to buy the dye that she used. And it has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 tags and I just modified an envelope. But she had a pocket dye, a full pocket dye and I really didn't feel like buying another dye. So I liked the idea, so I just modified it. And I think her name was Crafting by Paula, but I'm not sure. But I will do a video post of how to make these and it will be its own, it will be its own vlog post. But this is another little tag ephemera book, accordion style. And hers were Christmas themed, but I just used some leftover Samperia paper that I had. There's 2, 4, 6 tags and then some tiny, tiny tags in here and some little stickers. To write the name on the back of the tag because these are back and front. So I thought those were very cute. And I did 2 and this one is actually a recycled paper. And it holds 2, 4, 7 tags and in this pocket I made some stickers. This paper isn't as nice as the other one, so I'm probably going to put this at a lower price. Anyway, I thought the books were cute, so I wanted to try it. So next up, I went to Goodwill yesterday and Grandma must have quit crafting because I walked out with how many. 1, 2, 3, 4, there might be 2 in there. 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 packs of stamps. Lovely. I'm disappointed in this one. It's a full stamp. I thought they were all separate, but they're not. I can cut it up, but I don't think I'm going to. But I have seen this before, Heidi Swap. I've seen this on Amazon, I believe. But this one is confusing me. And if you can help me, if I'm mistaken, I thought it was a stamp. I don't have my samples here. I don't know where they went in my trash. Anyway, I got it to turn out, but it's sticky on both sides. That kind of makes no sense. So maybe it's something and I'm just not aware of what it is. But to me it looked like another stamp set and it was with all the others, but I don't know. I thought it was a little label set. That's why I picked it up. But I did manage to stamp with it. I tried. I thought, well, maybe it's just one side and I can wipe it off. I don't know, maybe it's something for scrapbooking or something. I just have no idea. So if you know why two sides of the little sticker type set would be sticky and so flimsy. If it's a stamp, let me know what this is. Okay, so that was cool. I went to an antique mall. And it was 32,000 square feet. And two of the things I got were these little type setter blocks that are metal. My husband's father used to be a type setter. So whenever I see these, I fall in love with type setting blocks. And they make really cool stamps too. This one says Buick. And this one says, in your chastity, pray for the repose of the soul of, and it has a crown and a cross. So I just, you know, it had an actual, not all of them had a design, so I wanted one that wasn't just text. So I got those two and I bought a chair and I bought some other ephemera. It was amazing, beautiful, beautiful town, and it's been there for 24 years and I had no idea. But I actually saw it in one of those travel books. And next time it rains, I'm going back there for a photo shoot because I realize there's so much pretty architecture here. I've had this idea in my mind for photos, but I want it to be a rainy day and I have to have a nice architecture. So I'm going to do that, but it was a lovely day and at 32,000 square feet, so many books and so much stuff, beautiful buttons, jewelry, everything. So that was a nice day. Okay, we're going on to notes. Cindy M, thanks for the tip. Who taught me how to make a tear roller with using plastic rollers. And that is in the labels where you don't need a stamp to make your own labels. Just finds something with a shape, the bottom of a bottle, whatever. Get some juicy ink and you can make your own labels, but that's in there. Cindy M, again, thank you. I went outside and started yesterday. Actually, you distressed the edge of a plastic roller along cement or something like that. And I began it, but it's a very subtle tear, so I have to go out and try it again. Maybe with a sciffer roller because this roller is very flexible. Okay, Harvey Lobby tip. I got my punch. Let me see here. Got my new punch. I went up there because I saw it on sale online and it wasn't on sale in the store. If that happens to you, track someone down and make them looking up online and you will get the online price. That's what I did. I was like, okay, why is it on sale online but not in the store? And then, of course, we looked it up. I wasn't mistaken. And she honored the online price. If you hear the phone, excuse me. We've been getting rowboat calls for 24 hours now and it's driving me crazy. So if you are so inclined, hop over to Journal Me Crazy Candice. Her husband passed away. Very, very, very sad what she's been going through. So hop on over there and support her channel. She had not been along for a few weeks and then he passed away and she's slowly getting back into it, I hope. But I hope it helps her heal her heart. So send her some support. Okay, I think that's it. And how much time did that take? 10 minutes. Okay, good thing I got a little bit of a head start here. So today's tag series. I was just going to do one. And then I saw another one that was kind of similar by Crafty by Tony. So then I thought, well, I'm going to add that because it's kind of similar in why break up a series with a separate style. Okay, so my idea is to put your specimen at the top because sometimes I just get so tired of standard tag toppers that I wanted to do something else at the top. And then I saw hers, which was actually more like a specimen and it's similar. So that's what we're going to do today. And if I don't get time to embellish or anything, you can embellish however you want. And I just chose some plant seed catalog paper and chose that and then put a flower in the center. One you can write on and one is you can't. But she had rivets and she has hers on a chain. And she had brats in these little holes, but I kind of just liked it with little holes. So this is my inspiration from her piece, but I'm going to put a link so you can see hers, which was more traditionally done specimen card tag. Okay, so let's get started and then I just made another little one because I needed more for the photo. But you do not need a tag punch to do this. You can do this style on this type of tag and it will be fine. So I'm putting that up a little closer so you can see them. So what you'll need, you'll need punches or dies. And by the way, she did one of hers with a square. One of these with a square. I was going to do one with a square, but I'm just going to keep a circle today for your benefit. So, okay, I have, I'm going to be using collector nail. So you'll need some punches. You'll need however you want to construct your tag. This one, I did not do the fold over method. That's how I got the back writable. I just glued it at the bottom before I began working on this so that I could punch these holes in the exact same spot and punch two at a time. So whether you clip it, glue it, fold it, you can keep that top together for when you're ready to punch. Okay, so that's what punches, glue, something for the topper. Whatever you want to put in the center and whatever you want to embellish. And remember, I got a bunch of flowers stuff here. Got some labels. And do not think that you have to make these black and white or with text or with stamping. Hers were all stamped. Some pretty paper here. You can make yours with however you want. Book pages. Where did that other pretty sheet go? I wanted to show you. The first ones I just used a page from a plant seed catalog. There isn't that pretty. I might be saving that for the next set in the series. We'll see. Okay, so I'm using Collectinia because it just makes a nice cop tag that can go in anything. So that's why I'm using that today. I do believe I have a sample set. If I do, I'll post the link and you can download the sample set for free with this post. So I began this tag punch is two, two and a half and one and a half. And I'm going to do another one and a half. And this time I just folded it. So it's two and a half. And I think I made it ten and a half. So it's two and a half by five and a quarter. This specimen card one is two by ten. So then it folds to two by five. Okay, finally getting started. And I'm just going to probably going to stand up here and get to a solid, more solid place. Because I don't like punching this punch on glass. Okay, here we go and hope. And that's hard. And that was another thing I did. Please tell me you're going to go because my first one and my hands are slippery with lotion. My first one, the one side was on book page and you're not going to go. Why won't you go through two? I got my other punch through two yesterday. It's stuck inside. Maybe it did go. No it didn't. Okay, I'm going to have to put these in here and go through one at a time and hope. Get a clean cut and that they're equal. Okay kids, don't do that at home. My one hand side was on book page. Okay, save the day there even. My one page was on book page yesterday and it did fine. I didn't cut off her face completely so that's good. Okay, so glad that managed to work. So now I'm going to take some paper here and show you a tip. I'm taking my one inch punch and that is going to be for this hole. But I'm going to punch it out of a piece of white, whatever, scrap paper. Put a tiny dab and then I'm going to center it where I want it. I think it looks nice. I'm going to punch out that hole again. Whoops, I got it dried. Punch out that hole again. Oh come on, you got the same place until I get you punched. It's off. Sorry, I'm going to hold this up. Tell me please you're going to go through twice and you're going to line it up with the white. And there you go. Before it was sinking I wanted that for the front. I'm keeping that for the front. And then I'm going to do the same thing for this one. Only this time I'm using my one and a half inch punch and my other one was off. So I'm going to do the same trick with this one. That'll do. I'm going to line it up straight in there. There's our two. Now I'm going to take, that's not a punch, that's a corner rounder. Take my smaller punch. And I'm going to find, for this one I'm just going down one. And for this one I'm just going down one. But it's a different size second punch. For this one I know I want some red because I like the contrast. Should I look for the same type of flower? One with a red circle. Don't see one with a similar type of flower. I see my paper is all out of order. Where'd that one go with the circle? Okay. I think I'm going to go back to first choice. Oh by the way you're going to need two. So I'm going to punch. I'm just going to grab a pansy. So great. Okay, then you're going to glue these together. So you have it front. Something on the front and the back. It's going to be for that one. And I'm just thinking how I cut off all my labels and put them away. I'm just thinking for this one I might like some blue. So I hope everyone's doing well. Enjoying your summer. Now we're back to cold. Cool. I'm sure a lot of people like that. I'm sure a lot of people prefer that for spring. Well I kind of don't want to cut both those stamps but I have two. So I'm going to do it. I should have just cut both flowers out of there. So just have two for the back and the front. Glue those together. Now if I don't get time for a ton of decoration, I'm pretty sure you can take it from there. And that one's going to go there. So now I'm just taking wax paper or piece. I'm just going to lightly tack it in here. And I'm going to fold it over. And then I'm going to lightly tack. Got a lot of edges. I don't need glue at this point. Just have to get it in there, get it trimmed off. Then I'll glue the tag together. So get some glue that I know will adhere to wax paper. I'm just going to go lightly around that hole because I don't want it seeping through. And I should have inked in everything. My other tags were all inked up but I'm not going to waste the time to do that today. Okay, that's all centered. Now I'm just going to... That needs... I see a little place where the seams trimmed already. I'm going to glue these together. Give it a press. And I'm going to set that aside for a second. Do the other one. I'm going to do the same here. Lightly tack that where I want it. Fold it over. Do the same thing. Okay, hers was more specimen. She used a bug. I was going to do a butterfly but I don't know if I have tiny enough ones to fit in there at the moment without... I'm sure I do somewhere with... that I would have to fussy cut. So I went with a flower again. And then I'm going to go over here. Probably 35 already. I think we should get done by 40, I hope. I'm going to have to do the top one together. I'm going to get out to the end there so I can put my little holes. Okay. Okay, there's that one. Now the hard part is cutting around this tag. I actually had to go back at it with some nail file. This tag is now pretty thick and it's a little off. It's going to need a trim now because I'm a little bit wonky. Putting that together. Close enough. It can be a trim. Okay. Now, between doing this to be probably... although with the tab at the end. Okay. So, let me get me glue on here. So I took my tiny punch and I just found a place to put it where I can make sure I can get it uniform for each side. Now, I'm going to give you the heads up if you want brads in yours. Put the brads in before you glue the two sides together so your brad back is sandwiched in between. Okay. So that's for that. Now the little tab. I just grabbed some black scraps and I'm going to eyeball this where I have to cut it. Here goes the phone again. I don't know why. I do not call a register but if someone knows a hack and since I don't trust myself I'm probably going to get the guillotine here with this to be straight. Now I just went... Okay, this is perfect. I'm not going to have to trim it the other length. She had a whale tail on her end. I'm making a tab and this one. I'm using my fancy three-corner punch and I'm going to cut out some plate corners and I used craft paper on the other one. If I had time I would... I might emboss that but I don't so I'm not. So there's my tab topper and then okay I'm not going to take the time to decorate. I'm not going to take the time to ink. Post the link to the video. Now I think those are nice and I will. Who says you have to do a specimen whenever you do a haul? You can put whatever you want in there. You can put dried flour. You can put a little type, type, typewriter ladder in there. You don't even have to you could just stamp some text on a circle and put that in there. You don't even have to make it see-through. So I hope you like it guys. Specimen type all this but call it specimen. I'm going to call them window tags. That's what I'm going to call it. You don't have to always be putting your window in the predictable place and we don't always have to be using the predictable paper and whatever to make these type of tags and I hope this gives you some idea of what to do with. Different things to do with the top of your tag rather than just punch a hole and stick some ribbon in there or whatever. That was really my main goal of not necessarily a different tag but a different tag top. Okay, have a great week everyone. I hope I didn't forget anything more coming in the series. I don't know where my other tags are but there will be more if they're right here. There will be more in the tag series. I don't know how many episodes it's going to go but at least one or two more. Okay, thanks for your time. Have a great week. Bye.