Label It by Judi Kauffman for The Queen’s Ink

A week ago a friend shared some unwanted office supplies with me, knowing that I like to incorporate light color labels on dark or heavily patterned envelopes. Alas, the adhesive on the labels (a box marked 1975!) didn’t have enough tackiness to work on envelopes, but there was just enough of a hold that I could stick them together a different way - as collage sheets!

Yard and estate sales are an excellent place to find boxes of labels! Just be sure to check the adhesive before making your purchase.

Here are the first five sheets, each of which began with a piece of pale yellow cardstock. Labels are lined up in a pattern or overlapped at random, ink smudged onto all of the pieces. (Don’t forget to use the little strips that were between the labels.):

Here is another direction - labels stamped at random in two colors while still on the sheet; removed from the sheet and lined up onto a piece of black cardstock:

It was fun to make the sheets, and even more fun to turn them into projects! 

I created laminated bookmarks and coil-bound notebooks with laminated covers. (Bookmarks and notebooks need to stand up to wear and tear and I didn’t want to risk that the labels would peel off.) I also designed a batch of cards.

What would YOU make??? 

Here is a photo gallery for inspiration:

Supplies:

• Labels
• Cardstock
• Inks
• Tim Holtz stickers
• Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher stapler
• Pattern stamps (optional)
• Die cuts (tag, tabs, rabbits)
• Scissors
• Binding system 
• Laminating machine