Welcome to the fourth installment of gifts you can make. Gifts to Make #4 Handmade Tags or The Easiest Anthro Knockoff Ever! Although these are gift tags and not gifts per se, you could package eight or so in a glassine bag and give them as a gift. They are too cute not to!
Gifts to Make #4 Handmade Tags or The Easiest Anthro Knockoff Ever
Way back in the middle of November I had shared with you my holiday knock off aspirations. One project I had listed were these darling Anthropologie penmanship gift tags.
I have to say of all the Anthro knockoffs I’ve created this has been by far the easiest.
You begin by printing out tags that say “TO”. Flamingo Toes created a wonderful template.
While I have seen several blogs cut the tags out separately at this point, I opted to stitch my tags with one continuous stitch to save time. I did use my backstitch button at the beginning and end of each line on each tag. This was my first attempt and my lines were a bit off. (Consecutive attempts were much better but the sun was going down and so went my photography light. 🙂
Other crafters have cut the tags out by hand. I opted to use my scrapbooking paper trimmer as a time-saving measure. This does cut down on the artisanal effect of using scissors, but I was ok with that.
Next, a scrapbooking corner clipper rounded the corner edges and a paper punch was used to create a hole in the upper left-hand corner.
While the Anthro tags featured white twine, I opted for colored bakers twine as that is what I had on hand. (I think I actually like this touch better.)
Of course, I couldn’t just stop with the basic red and blue thread pairing, so I tried pink and mint.
Followed by pink and blue.
Then red and green.
My favorite though was red and teal.
The totally crazy combo of rainbow thread suggested I had gone off the deep end so that is where I stopped. (I kept my bobbin thread white on all colors as a time saver and so that the back side of the tags would be all white.)
We are halfway through the Gifts You Can Make series. Have you been creating lately?
Laura
Too cool for school!
Do you mind if I share on Pinterest and FB – (with a link directly back to this post, of course?)
Jan
Cute project!! Enjoying your gifts to make series.
That is so neat! I love the rainbow stiching!
I am saving this idea! You are so clever!!! So cute and so simple! Brilliant!!
Girl…you are on a creative roll….those are really cute, and you sewed them!! Amazing!
These are the cutest tags ever! I am helping out with a bake sale soon and I think these are a must for the glassine packaging with bakers twine to boot, thank you for sharing a great idea.
Those are too cute.
These are soooo cute but it would also mean I would have to drag my sewing machine out. Lazy here thinks that is too much work BUT she may try them with an embossing pen and powder. I wonder????!?
Thanks for sharing your fun ideas and hope you have an wonderful weekend! 🙂
I'm right there with you on the paper trimmer! These are too cute. I think the rainbow's my favorite! Be sure to stop on by and enter my holiday giveaway, ends 12/16!
Laura!
Your tags beat Anthro!
Just darling!
~Lynne
[w/L]
These are so cute! on top of that, I just love sewing on paper! Thanks for the tutorial~ t.xoxoxo
LOVE these! Gift tags are actually on my shopping list for this evening, but maybe I'll just make some of these! Thanks for dropping by my blog – love yours! 🙂
What a cute idea! They just might be a good enough reason to get my sewing machine out!
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
These are wonderful! I will have to give this a try! Thank you for the sweet comment on my blog!
Love the red and green. I wish they were a way to do them where I didn't have to drag the sewing machine out of the basement.
These are awesome! Soooooooo awesome…so very very awesome! And thanks for the sweet comment on my blog…it totally made my day! – from Angie at http://www.angiesroost.com
Cute, cute, cute! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
xo,
B
Thanks for stopped by and for your sweet comment about my ornaments!
These tags are genius!
So cute! I like the red and teal ones the best too! 🙂
These are super cute. Thanks for sharing them with us 🙂
Jessica
http://myworldmadebyhand.blogspot.com
I love these tags! Great work.
Those turned out cute! Love the colored thread on them!
~Linnea
Super cute! I love these!!!
Wow what a brilliant idea! So cute.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for your lovely comment. I love your Gifts to Make series, esp these quick & easy gift tags that combine 2 of my loves, craft and sewing lol! xx
These are sweet! I love the multicolored thread! Thanks for stopping by my blog recently!!
Wow, very cute tags! Thanks for your kind words at Magnolia Lane 🙂
Have a happy holiday!
Amy
Thanks for your note on my blog – I'm so happy to have found your Christmas gift ideas!
Oh my goodness, simply perfect!! You have a crafting touch, thats for sure!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet message on my sheet music wreath. I'm glad you liked it so much.
I'm also glad you linked back to your own site as these tags are just TOO cute. I love the simple but fun nature of them and honestly you could use these for teacher's gifts too any time of the year! Or perhaps college student carepackages? Just too sweet. 🙂
Oh, these are great! I love the stitching detail! Thanks for visiting the space between today! Happy Holidays!!
Karah @ thespacebetweenblog
Hi Laura-
These are so cute and great tute, too. I hope you are enjoying the holiday season so far.
My best- Diane