Sometimes I craft ideas comes to me and I have to get started immediately and that was the case with these gift tags. I already had the Fimo for a project that was never meant to be (I can’t even remember what it was – beads, maybe??)
This burst of inspiration was particularly useful to me because I am not the most organized person when it comes to the holidays, and any head start I can get can only be a good thing.
These gift tags were very easy to make, though they do take a little patience to get a neat, clean shape.
First, I rolled the Fimo out flat. I used the rolling pin from my daughter’s play kitchen. It was just the right size.
I used the Fiskars Tag lever punch to create a template and scored the outline of the tag shape onto the Fimo.
And I used my craft knife to cut out the shape as neatly as possible.
For the gingerbread man tag, I used a small cookie cutter I have to cut out the shape. At this point, my kids were getting really excited thinking we were making a tasty treat.
After baking the Fimo and allowing it to cool, I used some Fiskars Christmas stamps to decorate the tags.
I love to use baker’s twine for the string of the tags because it looks so festive.
I used a Sharpie to decorate the gingerbread man.