Hi my lovelies, sorry for the hiatus in gift wrap posts (I
know, I know, HOW EXACTLY are you supposed to wrap your abundance of gifts
without a new weekly tutorial???). The
last few weeks have been just too stressful and depressing for me to
concentrate on my blog, but life must go on.
I’m going to cut to the chase; today’s tutorial is the paint
swatch gift tag. I hate spending money
on gift tags, and I love me some free stuff.
If you’re a cheaparse thrifty like me, you’re going to love this tutorial. Every time I’m at the Depot or Lowes I take
the opportunity to collect my favorite color paint swatches; you just never
know when they are going to come in handy.
My local Ace Hardware limits the amount you can take to 5…..the last time I
was there I snatched 7 swatches. My palms underarms were sweaty and I was
looking over my shoulder like a paranoid schizophrenic and/or meth head….I need
to get out more.
Anyways, for this tutorial all you need is:
·
Paint swatch that has multiple colors (not just
a solid square paint swatch….it will work but won’t look as fancy…)
·
Memories Slice Cutter (or similar)
·
String/Ribbon (to tie the gift tag to your
package)
So basically, you just need a paint swatch with enough
colors to spell out the person’s name that you’re gifting. Example (Katie- Need at least 5 colors, if
there are more you can cut the end colors off to shorten to swatch to 5
colors. For this tutorial I spelled the
name Masato, hence 6 letters/colors)
Really this is pretty self explanatory. Center the slice on each paint swatch color
and cut a different letter per color.
Easy peasy. Attach the tag to the
package with string or ribbon and you’re done.
(sorry this package looks a little…Christmassy….that’s probably because
it was a Christmas gift…)
