Tidy little packages from a 4 3/4" x 2 3/8" tag!
This week I sold some notecards on Etsy.com and needed a small, decorative envelope in which to enclose a little gift for my buyers, but I was all out of my usual manilla mini envelopes. However, I did have a box of old fashioned labels.
It occurred to me that if I just made two folds in one of those labels and tied it around the back, I wouldn't even need to use tape to secure the little gift inside. I folded the bottom up about 1 3/4" from toward the middle of the label. Then I folded the top (with the tie) down so that it overlapped (about 7/8").
Grabbing my box of stamps and stamp pads, I stamped a couple of pretty designs on the outside, tucked my little gift inside, and Voila! A nice little thankyou gift from me to my buyers.
When I thought about it, there could be some wonderful variations on this idea, which could be useful for Valentine's day or other gift giving opportunities involving small, special gifts.
If you want to give a valuable gift and want to suprise your someone special with something you can just tuck into your pocket or purse, you need your little gift holder to be able to be secured so the fancy gift can't fall out the side. But tape would muss up the "look" as well as stick into the little card inside. So I created one package which can be inserted into the Valentine's Day or Birthday Card.
For it, cut a piece of cardstock (I used pink, since this is a Valentine's Day package) 6" x 1 1/4" and fold it in thirds. (I just "eyed" mine.) Glue a cute picture on the front (maybe of yourself...). Next cut a heart out of tissue paper, and use that to wrap the gift. Tuck it into the tag package, and that into the card. That's all it takes to have a very personal, portable, suprise package for the one you love.
You can get fancier if you wish. You can make any kind of insert you'd like. You can change out the string with ribbon, and tie beads onto it, or paint your little gift package with craft paints. Write something special inside, and you'll have something they'll never be able to throw away.
Have fun.
deber
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