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| Use Labels and Tags to Organize with Flair |
Babies have a lot of stuff! Here's a fun way to organize in the nursery. Create labels for your boxes, bins and crates. All you need is either some card stock or sticker paper, a graphics program, a printer and your imagination! If you choose card stock, you will also need a hole puncher and something to attach your labels like Velcro tabs, ribbon, twine or
metal rings plastic linking rings. To insure durability, you'll also want to laminate the labels. I really like the
Self-Sealing Laminating Pouches from Scotch. No machine is needed for laminating when using the pouches.
Let's get started. Open your graphics program. I used Paint Shop Pro 7. Create a new image 252 w x 180 h with a white background. Create your own graphic or add clipart. I used a drop shadow around the graphic for a bit of depth. Now add some text. I used Broadway font also with a drop shadow. Merge all of your layers. I used the buttonize effect and of course, the drop shadow. The last thing I did was to add a border. I used a size 1.
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| Booties label |
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| Binkys Label |
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| Hair Bows Label |
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| Red Binkys Label |
Thanks to
Webweaver's Free Clipart
for the red binky graphic.
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| Shoes Label |
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| Toys Label |
Here are a few more labels I made.
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| Wood Grain Hats Label |
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| Wood Grain Toys Label |
The wood grain labels were created using a wood grain texture and a chisel effect. Flood fill your white image with a wood grain texture. Insert your text. Flood fill the text with the same wood grain texture. Use the chisel effect (transparent option). The "Hats" label was made using the chisel effect twice. I finished them off using the buttonize effect and a black border.
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| Toys With Road Signs Background Label |
This last label was created by placing small images onto the white background. I used the Paint Shop Pro picture tube tool. I merged the images into one layer and faded them. For the last layer, I chose the rounded edge rectangle and flooded it with white. Next I added my text and finished it off the same as the other labels.
Decide upon the look you'd like. Experiment with fonts, colors and shapes, too. You could make some oval labels. Oooooh! Just had another idea! You could scan a bit of your patterned nursery fabric into the computer. Then, you could use that image as a background for your labels!
One last thought: If you don't have a graphics program, try card stock (heavy weight paper), scrapbook paper and scrapbook embellishments. You can find these things at a craft store. Have fun! Be creative!!
If you do some labels, share them with us here! It's always fun to see how others tweak an idea or change it entirely!
