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I’m kind of obsessing over our upcoming trip. I want everything to be cute. First I started with the luggage, and naturally I started in on the luggage tags next. I’m a details girl. I know I have issues.
Side note: I have always wanted a laminator, and though there are a thousand excuses to buy one (because really, who doesn’t need a laminator?) I’ve always made do with the lamination services at the Staples copy center or heat free kits.
With this project I finally took the plunge and became a laminator owner. Oh. My. And I thought my label maker was OCD crack….
I could laminate stuff ALL DAY LONG. There is just something so satisfying about sealing a flimsy paper object in nice sturdy plastic that makes me smile. Armed with an excuse to laminate and a need for a bazillion tags for my family’s many many bags and parcels I got to work.
I started with a super easy laminating project, making tags out of my own business cards. I have some really nice thick Moo cards with photos from my instagram stream and was able to purchase pre-sized luggage tag lamination supplies to make about a dozen of these in under ten minutes. I think this would work well with a trimmed photo as well. Bonus that all the info is already on there with a biz card!
Next I moved on to another passion of mine – Paint Chips! Why not make colorful luggage tags from colorful chips?
I have some smaller business cards that look like paint chips and I decided to combine them with actual paint chips (a little double sided tape helped things stay in place) to make some paint chip tags. Huzzah! They are so pretty!
A friend clued me in on the fact that you can write your info in sharpie on the plastic AFTER you laminate, if you wish, and then remove/change with alcohol. I deliberately left some of these paint chip tags blank on one side so I could write a message and change it. I’m thinking something like “NOT YOUR LUGGAGE! HANDS OFF!”
My third luggage tag project was one for the whole family and definitely the most fun of all. The kids really enjoyed designing their own tags. They simply drew on manila blanks.
I removed the strings and laminated them (six to a full sheet – a little tricky but not too difficult) then trimmed them and punched a hole.
Since I can never leave well enough alone, I got out the scrap yarn and forks to make mini pom poms with the kids. I picked up the tip on Pinterest. Have you tried it? It’s super simple. Just wrap a bunch of yarn around the tines, tie tightly in the middle and trim the loops. Just don’t cut the center ties. Viola! Poms!
Technically you don’t have to laminate the manila tags, you can make em and let them get beat up. You could also take them in to be laminated at Staples or use cold lamination supplies. But I’m going to go ahead and be a lamination enabler. Particularly if you have kids, and they do school projects as often as mine, you probably won’t regret purchasing a laminator. I know mine is going to see a lot of action. I’m about to laminate itineraries for the kid’s journals next…
How adorable are these tags? I’m hoping our luggage will not get lost on this trip.Bon voyage!
This is SUCH a cute idea! Could be a great Christmas present from kids to family members too!