Skeleton Tags.

I found the tutorials for these tags at WhichCraftDoYouDo and Charlotte Peterson. The tags they made turned out quite beautiful. I also used dies for some of my tags and some border punches. To get a wider strip from your punch, You punch down one side...

.... then you flip it over and come down the other side. You just have to measure the width of your first row, so the second row matches up.

Perfect match.

I used this method on this tag. I first covered the whole tag with an old German book page. Then I laid the punched border where I wanted it. This way I knew how far I could tear my tag. The border piece I painted with copper acrylic paint, then I just dabbed some black paint lightly over it.

I also used part of the punched out piece as a tab for my fabric.

To put it together, I laid a piece of cardstock, the same size as the tag, under it. ( Do not glue the cardstock to your tag. It's just for the assembly). This way it was easier to assemble. Then I just put one layer of UTEE over the whole "skeleton" part, to make it a bit stronger. You will however, put cardstock on the unexposed tag parts.

For this tag, I also used a border punch and applied the same method as above. I used some scrunched up plastic wrap and dabbed some navy acrylic paint over it, followed by some light blue color. On the edge of the tear I painted some metallic paint on it.

For this tab, I used leftovers from the above tag.

I also added UTEE to the punched piece.

I don't know why this is so dark, sorry.

For this one I did use a die. The "rusty" background I made with burnt umber, burnt orange and some green. Again I used crumbled up plastic wrap to apply the paint.

For the tab I used part of the die piece.

As with the others, I used UTEE on the die cut.

For these 2 tags I added a background.

You can make these any way you want. They are quite sturdy, because you add another piece of cardstock to the unexposed parts of the tag. I just think a layer of UTEE makes the exposed pieces a bit stronger. Thanks to the Ladies for the inspiration.
Renate