Distressed Tags Scrapbook Page
Designed by Gerri Newfry

Materials:

• 2 oz ecru Premo! Sculpey #5093
• 2 oz white Premo! Sculpey #5001
• Small amount raw sienna Premo! Sculpey #5392
• Photographs
• Scanner and inkjet printer
• Freezer paper
• Pasta machine (numbers here refer to Atlas machine)
• Ruler
• Small Kemper circle cutters or bits of metal tubing
• Tag alphabet stamps (junque.net)
• Toothbrush
• Acra gold acrylic paint

Directions

1. Mix together an equal amount of ecru and white clay. Roll the mixture out to #5.

2. Scan photographs. Print out at 150 dpi from an inkjet printer to the plastic side of freezer paper. Place the image face down on a scrap piece of clay and burnish with your finger. Repeat on the light ecru mixture.



The image should look a bit distressed.



You can do several transfers and pick the one you like the best.



3. Trim the clay to the preferred size. Trim the corners at a 45 degree angle to resemble a shipping tag. You can use a ruler or quilting template as a guide, or make a paper template.



4. Roll out raw sienna clay to #5. Cut a circle with a small circle cutter or bit of tubing. Place the circle on the tag. Cut through the raw sienna circle and tag with another circle cutter. Remove the inner portion of the circle.



5. Distress the surface with a variety of texturing tools. Stay to the outer edges, and avoid the faces of the images.



6. Bake according to package directions.

7. Roll another sheet of light ecru clay to #5. Impress with tag rubber stamps to create the title of the page. Press firmly. Bake.



8. Antique the image and letter tags with an acrylic wash of acra gold paint. Apply the paint with a toothbrush, working the paint into all the crevices. Avoid the faces of the images, because the ink will smear.



9. Remove the excess paint with a paper towel. Break or cut the letters free from the background clay.

10. Assemble the scrapbook page with your polymer clay elements.