Christmas Tags

I make some of them. But only to those who will appreciate a homemade tag.

For some gifts I do, but most of the time I don't even use them. I am such a dork, but when I wrap, I use a really plain wrapping paper and then do some kind of design on it (with paint, ink, yarn, whatever.) The to/from usually gets incorporated in the design somewhere.

There is never any doubt which gifts under the tree come from me.  

I do make my own tags. Last year, I made a different tag for each recipient. They were all the same sized tags from one of my dies, but I have so many holiday stamps that I wanted to use a bunch of them. I just started making tags and enjoying myself before I realized I had more tags than gifts and had to stop.

I even made tags for the gifts from my dog to my family member's dogs. I found a stamp that looks like my pup with a little antler hat and a strip of jingle bells on him. I baked up a bunch of healthy homemade dog biscuits from a doggie health food book I found. I made two different sizes, one for the big dogs and some mini bones for the smaller dogs. I stamped them, colored them with my copic markers, and then added some dimension with some paste that looked like glittery snow. I would add a picture of it, but all the buttons that used to be at the top of a reply post are not showing up for some reason. I can't add pictures, likes, scroll to the bottom quickly, or a few other things that I used to be able to do on this site.

I also have a stamp with a dog standing in the snow with one leg lifted. I started to make those up for the gifts from my dog but a neighbor said she didn't think I should use those on a food product gift, ha ha. I saved the tags I had already made up of that stamp and will use them again at some time that I'm not making edible treats.

"I make them because that is what I like to do and once given it is none of my business what happens to them, I've had my fun."

Excellent attitude! I'm that way with my scrapbooking. I only have one child to scrap, and he's not exactly sentimental. He may just toss all the books after I die. I'm hoping that by then, he is married and his wife will be interested in preserving his history for their own children. If not, like you say, I've had my fun.

I do a mixture of handmade, tags made by cutting up old Christmas cards, and store bought. Mostly handmade though. They're fun to make. And the people I give them to will keep them, if others don't that's fine by me too. Once it's theirs they can do what they like with them.

I just made 7 tags today. It was nice and relaxing, I was supposed to be making my Christmas cards though!

So sorry about your sister, scrapaddie.

Sorry about your loss,scrapaddie. I love to make tags! I give them as gifts also and use them on homemade rolls,bread ,candies,jams,vinegar,vanilla that I give to family and friends.I use die punches or hand punches and use up a lot of scraps.For me,it is therapeutic and I love to receive handmade items,so it seems appropriate.

I'm so very sorry for your loss.

I just made a big batch yesterday. Now they're just waiting to be put on packages.

I do and create matching gift boxes to go with them

I wasn't planning on making any, but I ran out while wrapping, then got carried away. I think I made enough for next year, too. I just used cardstock and a Tim holtz die that I've had forever but never used. I didn't even know that I had To and From stamps, but I did. That was a nice surprise.

They are fairly plain, but it did save me a trip to the store.