I love using photo tags for my kids' presents-- it gets old writing "from Mom & Dad" on so many packages (they usually each get several from us under the tree, times that by the 3 of them). Plus, they love to look for their faces under the tree and know those surprises are for them.
I printed out some quick recent photos of my kids just on regular printed paper, as most likely these will just get lost and later thrown away in all the mess of unwrapping on Christmas morning. Then I punched a scalloped square tag from Echo Park's Wintertime papers to attach my pictures too. I love the colors in this paper line!
Then I went to work embellishing them with some gems and pearls (for our current challenge) and other embellishments such as lace and Prima flowers. I used letter stickers from the WinterPark kit to put their initial on each tag along with a few snowflake and border stickers from the same sticker sheet.
I think photo tags are a really fun way to personalize the gifts you are giving, here are a few other suggestions for types to make:
*For presents from your family, make a tag that includes a picture of all of you
*For presents from grandparents, make a tag that includes a picture of the grandparent when they were young, this way the tag becomes a keepsake as well (I did this several years ago when helping my grandmother with her shopping and wrapping, the tags were a huge hit among my aunts, uncles and cousins-- not many of them had pictures of my grandmother when she was young and they were delighted to get them)
*For any family presents, make tags that include pictures from Christmases past, then you can reminisce about previous holidays while celebrating the current one.
Now that I've got my pile of tags ready to go, I'll be up late tonight wrapping those kids' gifts and anxiously awaiting the light in their faces when they tear them open on Christmas morning. To all our Beary Scrap fans out there, I hope you have a wonderful holiday season!
3 comments:
What a wonderful idea! Thanks for the inspiration! "Hugs" Carol
ps. The kids are adorable!
Jamie what a cute idea for gift tags. I love it.
~Patricia
Jamie, I'm going to sound like a broken record if you keep this up -- you have such brilliant ideas! I love this, and most of my family photos are of them trying to dodge the camera or making silly faces. what fun to use those photos as tags and reminisce.
Cheers,
Susan
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