Christmas Crafts~Homemade Gift Tags and Bags

If you have old Christmas cards this is the perfect time to get them out. I'm going to show you some gift tags that I made from my old ones.


I used oval, circle and square templates. Place the template on the part of the card you'd like to use, trace with a pen and cut out.


You can use straight or decorative edged scissors.


If you have cards with patterns, you can turn these into pretty gift tags too.


Simply place a gift tag pattern on the card, trace and cut out.


Punch a hole at the top and they are ready for some ribbon.


Several of my card had glittery edges so I put them to good use too.


I cut them into strips.


And layered them criss-cross on a cardstock gift tag.


I also added little bows.

Now for the gift bags! Dawn from The Feathered Nest recently shared this wonderful tutorial on how to make these Very Easy Gift Bags.


I used sheet music scrapbook paper(on the right) and I also copied some sheet music I had onto white printer paper.


The greenery is from our Christmas tree.


I glued the sheet music onto the front of the brown paper gift bags. Then tied the greenery and gift tag together with ribbon and tied a bow.


I attached it to the bag of a little hot glue.








All ready for gifts! Let me know if you try any of these ideas!