Welcome, September! It’s hard to believe we’re falling into the last few months of the year. It seems like time is just racing along these days! I’m sure you can relate, right?
Last month, I spent a spectacular few days in the California wine country with friends. You see, I turned 50 this year and my sister is turning 60 tomorrow (Happy Birthday, Beth!), so we wanted to do something really fun. Here is one of my favorite photos from our time there:
While we were gone, some sweet friends from church watered out flowers every day and gathered our mail. We wanted to thank them with some gifts because we were super thankful, and the flowers looked great when we finally came home!
As a paper crafter, it just isn’t possible for me to toss a gift in a gift bag without adding a personal handmade touch. So, I set about making tags for each person using my paper crafting supplies.
The ten-year-old twins’ gift cards went in plain white bags, so I was able to match their tags to their gift cards nestled inside. Brooke loves cacti, and she simply BEAMED when she saw hers. That totally made my day. I tried to keep the tags flat so that they could be used as bookmarks.
15-year-old Autumn’s bag featured bright colors and metallic gold, so for her tag, I added pretty florals as a complement to the bold stripes on the bag. And how fortunate that her name is a season? I’ve got a die for that!
The bag for mom and dad held a bottle of my favorite cabernet, and those bold gold dots and sentiment on the bag inspired my sophisticated tag. I was pretty excited when I found the Sip Sip Hooray sentiment from Avery Elle in my stash. Perfectly fitting! By heat embossing the sentiment in white on vellum, I was able to still allow the metallic gold and gold glitter cardstocks to show through.
I love sharing handmade kindness with wonderful friends, and the challenge of making tags to match the bags was right up my alley. I hope you find inspiration from a few of my ideas!
Here’s to a fantastic September, and we simply cannot WAIT for you to see our Fall issue which will hit newsstands in less than three weeks! Join us here tomorrow as we share the first peek of the cover!
~ Susan R. Opel, Editor-in-Chief, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine
Very cute bag tags!!
Happy 50th birthday, Susan! Love the pretty bag tags! My favourite one is the autumn tag. Would love a tutorial on how to make that one.
Love the cacti tag – can you tell me which brand of paper? Thank you
Sooo cute!???? Happy 50th!
Love these bags, so many great ideas that my little mind is twirling. Thanks for a great article.
Happy 50th to you and 60th to your sister. Glad you had a wonderful time. Super ideas for the bags. Thanks for sharing your wonderful time with us.
Those tags are super cute, Susan and I love the different sizes to be used as bookmarks too. Good idea!
Happy 50th and 60th to your sister! Love the inspiration of making tags for bags. I love personalized gifts! These are beautiful!
Your tags are awesome! Happy 50th Birthday to you and Happy 60th Birthday to your sister! What a great adventure!
Darling bags and tags!
Those tags are gorgeous! It’s always nice to thank people in a personalised way.
That sounds like a wonderful way to celebrate two special birthdays! I love all the personalized gift tags you made. :)
Great presentation of these gifts!
What a wonderful way to celebrate your birthdays! I love the pretty tags you created. It always makes the gift a little more special to make the wrapping personalized. Thank you for sharing! :)
I am sure they were as tickled with the tags as they were with the gifts!!!
Happy birthday!
Very nice gift bags with tags. So creative…
Thanks for sharing.
Love the sip sip Horray one!
Love the tags to match the bags all gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
Love these!
Wow it is easy to pick out which girl is your sister. Great picture. Love the tags you made and, like you say, keeping them flat makes for a great bookmark. Can’t wait to see the Fall issue. Autumn is my ultimate favorite season.
Happy 50th birthday Beth and 60th to your sister ???????? I love that you mad tags to match each persons likes/personalities. The tags are adorable ❤️
Love your bags and tags/bookmarks!
Autumn is a nice seasonal name… thats my granddaughter’s name also.
Happy birthday to you and your sister too!! ????????
The gift tags are amazing and you are really friendly and a good neighbour.
I love cacti too ????????
Beautiful bags and tags!
What a WONDERFUL & PERSONALIZED way to gift & thank some one! Beautiful!
Such a delightful post! Love the bags. Happy Birthday to you both!