Here's an idea for those of you who get a lot of beautiful Christmas cards, and hate to just toss them in the recycling bin come the end of the season. I saved last years cards to make the gift tags for this year's presents...
Since I have been making a gift tags for the past few years, the older tags that survived are still mixed in as well:
A simple hand-carved robot lino cut |
Manila tags stamped with purchased stamps |
This year, I made some cloth bags for gifts, which can be re-used in place of paper in the years to come. It was fun to whip up a bag or two each time Meg and I went to the studio to craft. I used up little scraps of fabrics and ribbons and got to be creative and spontaneous with my designs.
While you don't get to rip the crap out of these like wrapping paper, the addition of a few jingle bells makes unwrapping fun and festive! |
I even made a couple of bags for my mom using the leftover scraps of embroidered fabric that didn't make their way into the recycled vintage embroidery baby quilt that I wrote about before.
Cute idea :)
ReplyDeleteAll the things are really creative, can we use them as a gift?
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