Faux Debossed Gift Tags

Welcome to the February Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop (and you too) to not just pin, but to make it happen!

If you’ve visited me here at SuzerSpace before, then you must have realized I really like lettering, and I really, really, really like to make things with the cardboard. So when this pin crossed my feed that featured both, you can guess that it was going on my “must make soon” list.

One picky note – the Pin and the post call these Embossed gift tags, but as a working member of the printing industry, I have to point out that these are actually Debossed. Embossing is when you press up an image from the back side and it stands UP. Debossing is the opposite – you press an image INTO an object. So mine are faux debossed gift tags!

Francesca at Fall for DIY created these using specialty duct tape, but I’m more of a #usewhatyouhave kind of crafter, so I went with the tried and true silver kind. We have a big roll of the super duper sticky stuff that lives in the basement, right near the dryer vent that cannot be easily connected to the basement window. The evildoer who previously owned our home made several very interesting decisions (ask me about the built in cabinet for a refrigerator that is not a standard refrigerator size some time).

My favorite craft stock of a cereal box is just perfect for these – thin enough to cut easily, thick enough to not get all bent up once finished.

Following Francesca’s tutorial, I cut the cereal box into rectangles narrower than the width of the tape. I then hand lettered initials, and cut them with a sharp craft knife. If your letter has a counter (that’s the inside part of the “P”, for example), don’t lose that part.

Cut a long piece of duct tape and lay it, sticky side UP on the work table, and then carefully place the card on it, being sure to keep it straight, and leave extra tape top and bottom. If you have a counter to your letter, place it back in now. And then fold the tape over, sealing the sides. I used my Silhouette Cameo scraper to firmly stick all the flat parts tother. I used my fingers and the back of my Silhouette Cameo hook (the round part, not the sharp part) to define the debossed areas of the letters.

It was a little tough to hole punch through the two layers of sticky tape and the cardboard, but I muscled it out.

The original intent is to make faux debossed gift tags, but wouldn’t they look great in that faux marble contact paper as labels for a pantry? Zip ties are what I’m thinking about for attaching them to my wire baskets that hold spices and canned goods and snacks.

Pin this if you’d like to make your own faux debossed gift tags.

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