December 2011

Gift tags:

This year  I wanted to do a little twist to the name tags on the presents. Also, I decided  to use our ipad2 to take the pictures too see what you think. I can’t wait for them to upgrade the amount of pixels. (ha).

Materails:

-  paint samples with fun names (the disney paint has a selection fun for kid name tags.)

-  a typewriter/ awesome colored marker/ or stamps

-  hole punch is optional.

This year for my nieces and nephews  Christmas presents. I got them all a sleeping bag! Super fun for future sleepovers and campouts. I also decided since most of them were Disney character sleeping bags I needed to accesrize the wrapping with the gifts.  I got the idea when I was trying not to spend money at Home Depot. Paint samples are free and I went through all the samples with a keen eye looking for fun sample colors with awesome names for each kid. Disney paint samples had paints with fun names to match their themed bags. I couldn’t resit. I ened up with a modest stack of paint samples, I knew I could go back if I ran out.

I tried writing on a few of the paint samples with different kinds of markers. This led to me clearly deciding on another method. My handwriting was BAD and  most the markers that weren’t a sharpie would smear.  I went ahead and got my old school typewriter out and tried that out. Besides my few typos they turned out great. Luckily I got some fun whiteout ready to use to add to the affect of the gift tag.

 

I opted not to hole punch them and tie them on to the packages. I taped them down so, they would double as book markers  for the kids since I also got a book and flashlight to go with their sleeping bags.

 I even made a few tags for our little family's stockings. Mine reads: “Happily ever after”, Josh reads: “Once upon a time”, and our pet rabbits stocking / bag reads: “ Garden Sprout”.  I will reuse these every year!