Crafting Gift Tags - July 17, 2012

As my friends and boyfriend know, I've become obsessed with Pinterest.  I keep pinning cute ideas and am determined to use them.  It's July, but I keep finding great Christmas ideas.  I figure that if i start them now, I might actually have things to show at Christmas time.

This one idea had someone wrapping a gift in a word search of their own creation.  A website allows you to enter your words into a word search, and the website creates it for you!  I decided to make a smaller one, and make them into gift tags.  So I entered the names of all my family members that I buy gifts for come Christmas time.

Then backed them with Christmas colored papers from my scrapbooking stash. And cut them into tag shape. 

Now, when I wrap a gift for someone, I grab one of these tags, find the gift recipient's name on it, circle their name and write "to" nearby.  Find my name (or my boyfriend's name since I end up wrapping most of his gifts too), and put "from" nearby.  Besides names, I also included family relationships like 'Mom' and 'Boyfriend' in case I want to get especially creative with my gift tags.  Use a red felt marker and it'll look adorable.

And if people are bored in between opening their gifts, they can see what other words they can find on their gift tags.