craftgrrl | (no subject)

My parents and I are leaving for Chicago tomorrow. My mom bought new luggage for them and so I made luggage tags.

Here are both:

My mom collects mermaids and my dad collects woodie cars.

Close-up of mermaid:

I used a mermaid that I bought my mom in Ashland, Ore. for inspiration.

Woodie car:

Both tags are made of my mom's scrapbooking paper. I traced a die-cut woodie my mom had so I could make the car any color I wanted (We own a Ford '50 that's this color). After I glued the paper together with rubber cement, I sandwiched the shapes between two pieces of vinyl. The vinyl kept sticking to the throat plate of my sewing machine so I put paper under the vinyl and ripped it off when I had finished sewing. Their names and addresses are on the back, too.

I still have to make myself one but I'm lacking on inspiration and time.

I'm really proud of how they turned out but feedback would be lovely! This is only my second post!