Kisses of Sunshine is hosting the "Homemade With Love" holiday gift idea exchange. This is an opportunity to show how to make a favorite gift for the holidays. It can be a main gift, a hostess gift or a gift for the neighbors.
My gift is very simple but sweet and it makes for a cute gift tag, ornament or garland, depending on how you finish it up. The only materials that you need are a brown paper bag (the grocery store kind), warm and natural batting (or another type of thin batting), cookie cutters in Christmas-y shapes, thread and embellishments.
Simply trace your desired shape lightly (using a cookie cutter as a guide) on the brown paper bag. Cut out your shape leaving approximately 1" of extra paper around the edges.
Now you will layer your materials as follows: the brown paper bag piece with the shape drawn on it, the warm and natural batting, and another piece of brown paper bag. In a sense you will now have a sandwich with a middle layer of batting and outsides of paper.
Using your sewing machine, zig-zag stitch around your cookie-cutter line. Now all you need to do is cut out your shape close to the stitching.
You can embellish as desired using fabric, ribbon and buttons.
These make great gift tags as well as ornaments, and you can glue a small stack of them to ribbon to make a garland for the tree or above the fireplace.
