reusing materials to make my own gift tags
Now you have to understand--I'm not normally a gift taggy person. I'm always trying to get out of adding tags by making cryptic markings on the box. Unfortunately, I'm usually the only one who can understand/find them, so I spend Christmas morning figuring out which present goes where. Not this year!
I receive the Design Within Reach catalog (mostly without of reach, but I can dream), and they sent out a Christmas mailing that consisted of a whole sheet of lightweight cardstock, the back of which was covered in different patterns. The front contained, besides promotional materials, 10 gift tags. The whole thing was perforated into (approx) 3x3 squares. So I had an idea...
I took apart ALL the tags and sorted them into piles of tags and non-tags. There's another little pile in there of ones that aren't printed as tags, but look good on both sides, nonetheless.
At last! A use for the millions of Christmas catalogs! I swear I get a new JCrew catalog every two weeks. Of course, I really don't mind, because they do have some lovely photos. So I went through and pulled out all the pages that had potential images I could use. I then trimmed them smaller and used rubber cement to attach one square (wrong side down) on each page.
The finished tags. I think I actually like mine better than theirs. More Christmassy. I'll just write the "to" and "from" on the back (over the DWR patterns) in pen.
A tag in use. I think the image on this tag is actually a sequinned deer. Upside down.
I receive the Design Within Reach catalog (mostly without of reach, but I can dream), and they sent out a Christmas mailing that consisted of a whole sheet of lightweight cardstock, the back of which was covered in different patterns. The front contained, besides promotional materials, 10 gift tags. The whole thing was perforated into (approx) 3x3 squares. So I had an idea...
I took apart ALL the tags and sorted them into piles of tags and non-tags. There's another little pile in there of ones that aren't printed as tags, but look good on both sides, nonetheless.
At last! A use for the millions of Christmas catalogs! I swear I get a new JCrew catalog every two weeks. Of course, I really don't mind, because they do have some lovely photos. So I went through and pulled out all the pages that had potential images I could use. I then trimmed them smaller and used rubber cement to attach one square (wrong side down) on each page.
The finished tags. I think I actually like mine better than theirs. More Christmassy. I'll just write the "to" and "from" on the back (over the DWR patterns) in pen.
A tag in use. I think the image on this tag is actually a sequinned deer. Upside down.
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