the cheap way!
i use strips cut from the sidewalls of aluminum soda cans. they are easily cut up with common scissors. aluminum beer cans would work as well,and come in 16 oz size, providing a longer strip. the aluminum is soft enough to emboss with a common ball-point pen if one presses firmly. for attachment, i use insulators stainless steel tie wire. this is the wire industrial grade insulators use to secure insulation on steam pipes. you can find it at any good professional insulation supply house. the only drawback is that it's fifty bucks for a ten pound coil. i use it for all kinds of applications around the farm, and a coil lasts me about ten years. strong, easily worked, and darned near eternal.