Summer Gift Packaging Ideas

Summer is around the corner and it is time to get ready for birthdays, barbecues and summer bashes.  Instead of spending money on a lot of expensive gift packaging, why not use the three R's of Conservation: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle?  Reduce the amount of packaging in your life and the world by reusing bags and giving them a facelift with materials you have lying around the house.  I still had some of the gorgeous Summer Fresh collection that I wanted to use up before I break into the Brand New I Heart Summer collection.

I thought is would be really fun to create this large star that would frame the fun tag.  I created the two sized stars with a clip art image in Microsoft Word, printed them onto plain cardstock and then cut them out to be traced onto the patterned paper.  I know, very old school right?  Then I added some hand stitching around the red star.

The tails of the tag were really easy to create and then trace onto the back sides of the patterned paper for easy cutting.  I then layered and glued them together with my Xyron Mega Runner.

These tags were so much fun to make.  All of the elements in the Summer Fresh collection are so bright and bold and look wonderful against the beautiful burlap patterned paper.  I got out my old Fiskars Apron Lace punch to make the red border on the bottom of the tags.

Foam tape is a great way to add dimension to the cardstock stickers in the Summer Fresh collection and to give the fun window box effect on this tag.

 

Summer Fresh Collection:

12 x 12 Fundamental Carstock Stickers

12 x 12 Expressions Cardstock Stickers

Sunshine/Happiness

Easy/Breazy

Burlap

6 x 6 Patterned Paper Pad

 

Stay tuned for the gorgeous Simple Stories I Heart Summer collection which was just received by our design team....

 

Happy Monday!

Comments

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

These are fabulous! LOVING the bright, happy colors!!!

[Dorina D]

So cute. Great idea to use up your papers, but an even better way to recycle. Love it. Great job.

[Guiseppa Gubler]

Love what you did here Liz and you brought back one of my favorite collections. Love the Summer Fresh and I Heart Summer Collections together.

[Mendi Yoshikawa]

Oh my goodness! These are all too cute! I will always have a soft spot for these papers (I still have sooo much of them I need to use) and your layering on the bag and tags are awesome! Thanks for the great ideas! :)

[Cari Locken]

Wow! Good for you girl on that restraint! I couldn't help but dig into my new goodies/collection!!

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