A Christmas gift to you
Posted by Joelle
December 17, 2007
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I thought, dear readers, that you deserved a Christmas present from us. Something handmade, something useful, something to encourage you to get crafty with coloured paper and wool. So, I present to you the mittens pattern I made for wrapping paper, cards and gift tags.
I screen printed my mittens in white onto brown recycled card and paper. For the cards I cut out the mittens, hole punched them and threaded them onto white wool, so that they could be hung up as little decorations. They are supposed to bring to mind those childhood mittens threaded on strings through your coat sleeves.
I’m sure they’d look lovely on different coloured card stock as well. If you do make your own from this pattern, I’d be so delighted to see how they turn out.
Here is the PDF file that you can just print out yourself: Mittens pdf
For gift tags A4 size will work ok. If you want to make cards or decorations it is better enlarged 200%, which is the size I used.
Whilst we are at it, there are quite a few talented bloggers sharing their wrapping paper and gift tag tips. Here’s a few favourites:
- Angry Chicken’s witty gift tags
- Derek and Lauren’s DIY ink stamp gift tags at Design*Sponge
- Not a blog, but some rather lovely wrapping paper for you to print out at Blueprint. Such a shame the magazine is no more.
- Who thought popsicle sticks could make stylish tags? Patricia from Little Hut did. And also cute tags with handwriting lines for children, a lovely fabric and paper ribbon, and a very elegant one using punched paper. I think Patricia wins!
Happy wrapping!
6 comments Categories: christmas, craft, tutorial
December 17th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Fabulous – thanks, Jo!
December 17th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Thank you for mentioning my work! And your mittens are very sweet. :)
December 17th, 2007 at 10:57 pm
Your mittens are cute. I am ashamed of my lack of homemade goodness this year.
I’m definitely printing the angry chicken tags!!
…and trying to source a punch like Patricia’s – love it :)
December 18th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Aw thanks for all your nice comments Erica! Glad you’re enjoying the ideas here.
December 20th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
I am the proud beneficiary of Jo’s skills this Christmas so just let me say “Your the *craftiest* person I know” And I’m sure you get he context!
Adam x x x
January 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
I saw the mitten tags at Fannys and thought they were fabulous but didn’t know who had made them – they’re lovely!