CHA Fakery #2

I was being cheerfully optimistic when I named my previous counterfeiting tutorial CHA Fakery #1, hoping that I'd find time to blog some further how-tos for the items that I counterfeited for my September Counterfeit Kit but not entirely sure that life would let me.  So far this month, the scrapping gods have smiled upon me and so here's a very quick and simple tutorial to share - forging the lovely flag tags made by Jenni Bowlin Studio:

• Cut a rectangle from (kraft) cardstock, punch a hole in the centre of one end and snip out a triangle from the other end
• Punch a hole in a scrap of (kraft) cardstock and then use a small (¾") circle punch to fake a ring-reinforcer {Tip: turn the circle punch upside down to help centralise the small hole}
  or use a small coin as a template if you don't have such a tiny punch and punch the centre hole afterwards
  or just grab a ring-reinforcer from your stationary supplies!
• Colour it with inks/pens if required and adhere to your rectangle over the punched hole

Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy, eh?!  Which means that you can then start playing around:

• use patterned paper instead of cardstock for your ring-reinforcer
• use a different shaped punch for the hole
• use a pen to add a border around your tag
• add some stamping to a plain tag
• add some patterned paper or washi-tape at the hole end of the tag
• round some corners
• layer up a tag onto patterned paper

And all for free :o)