My Fleet 153 favorites include my design of- Florida cypress knees (practically free) sliced long ways on a band saw, then decoupaged with epoxy then add a picture. What works really well for that is "Creative Xerography":
1. xerox a drawing onto a sheet of 3M overhead projector film. 2. then stick that xerox onto fresh epoxy (push out bubbles). 3. peel it off later, and the writing sticks to the epoxy. 4. a thin coat of epoxy, and you are done, even colored pix work well.
5. Do really nice professional-looking tags the same way, by copying your printed page with all the 1,2,3 etc. places BACKWARDS onto the xerox sheet (do it twice). Then spray paint the BACK side, over the writing with gold paint. One or 2 pages makes all of your tags, so cut them up, glue them on, and our cost was near zero. Note that metal tags are now 25 cents per letter-- No Way Jose!