Thursday, June 28

Dishcloth Care Instruction - Hang Tag Template

God is good. We have been having such perfect days after many hot and humid ones - the air has cleared into something close to perfection. The breeze gently touches our skin, and we are reminded that our Creator is indeed present everywhere. I was reminded of this passage:

"The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

John 3:8

Our summer is definitely in full gear. Bustling along even. I have to make an ongoing effort to simplify and slow things down. When we were little I can remember thinking that our long summer days lasted forever. Endless daylight hours lasting well past our bedtime. Now that we are old(er) and have the knowledge of when summer officially starts - on June 21st - our days then begin to shorten and as adults, our minds can be tricked into thinking that summer is nearing its end. I think that I like being naive to the calendar much more than being a slave to it.

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I promised to post the template for the dishcloth care instruction hang tag. This is a simple guide to creating them. Many of you will not need these steps written out - as I am sure that there are more than a few scrap bookers artists and computer experts out there, but here it is... I will be posting many more styles in the days and weeks to come, as well as other packaging ideas too. I would love to hear any of your ideas. There are lots of great wording variations - this is only a start.

Supplies needed: Heavy weight card stock - 64 or 110lb. (White will feel crisp and clean, ivory will have a vintage or "earthy" feel, scissors or a paper cutter, small hole punch, corner trimmer (optional), hemp, ribbon or yarn strips of a coordinating color to tie on to your cloth.

Step one:

Print out page 1. Turn your page to appropriately feed your printer - and print page 2 on the back. Page 1 will have margins or guides where you will trim your tags while page 2 will be printed over most of the entire page. This allows room for error when you trim them.

Step 2:

After your pages are printed, trim on the borders on page one (this is the front of your tags). Use a scissors - or even better use a paper cutter. Start by trimming the complete outside border, then trim vertically into 3 strips. Lastly cut each tag apart individually.

Step 3:

After your tags are cut apart, punch the hole where the graphic is located.

Step 4:

If you desire you can cut the corners of these tags. Rounded corners give it a professional look!

Step 5:

Take a coordinating color of yarn, ribbon or hemp, double it up and thread it through the hole of your tag.

Step 6:

Voila! Attach it to your cloth and enjoy gifting it!

*Download this file below

Dishcloth Care Tag Page 1

Dishcloth Care Tag Page 2

Update: this is a very large file - You can right click: save as on your computer - OR - open each page individually in your browser. Since the file is large, your browser may take several moments to open this, depending on your connection.

please let me know if you have any problems with this file. I will try to work with your special needs!

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6 comments:

hakucho said...

Thanks so much for the tags how-to!!!

You've been nominated as a Rockin' Girl Blogger! :)

magnoliasntea said...

Congratulations on your Rockin' Girl nomination! :)
And thank you for sharing your tag designs.

Shar said...

hi! stumbled upon your blog from dishcloths you have in flickr. i was wondering what pattern you used for that cream dishcloth in this post?

Coming Unravelled said...

Hi Shar - thanks for visiting. The cloth that you see in the photo above is called the "Accidental Bobble Cloth". I wrote this pattern and will be posting it here within the next few days.

You have a very nice blog - and you are quite talented!

THE KNITORIOUS MRS. B said...

Terrific tags and you are so sweet to share them with us! You are just so creative! Thanks for adding me to your sidebar! I'm in esteemed blog company and I'M Not WORTHY!!!

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.