Easy gift tags from toilet paper roll

The holidays being a busy time and having over-extended myself in trying to create too many hand-made gifts, I had to come up with a way of making some fancy looking tags requiring minimal work.

I happened to have several empty toilet paper rolls laying around (I knew they'd come in handy some time) which were begging for a use.

The process for making these is simple enough:

1. Flatten your toilet paper roll.
2. Cut 4 strips from the tube; I made mine 1 cm wide.
3. Dab some glue in the middle of one of the strips on each side of it. Fit the strip inside of another one to make a cross and squeeze the strips together so the glue will hold them.
4. Now glue the crosses inside each other to make an 8 pointed star.
5. Once the glue is dry, "fluff" it out so it's not so flat.
   
6. Attach to your gift with a piece of string, yarn, or ribbon.
   

Mini Bouquet and Technicolor Valentine Tag

So I've been pretty bad about posting to this blog it seems, but at least I'm keeping up with the creating. Here are a couple things that I made over the past few days.

The first thing is this little valentines tag. Which if I keept making valentines themed stuff I really don't know what I'll do with it all because I'm going to have more than I can possibly give to one person. This of course was made with a heart shaped craft punch. The coloured paper is from a sheet showing a sample of different origami papers you could buy. You can't really tell from the picture, but the hearts are raised with 1/8" quilling paper, so they are not sitting flat on the tag

This bouquet was also made with a heart craft punch, although it was a smaller one. The bouquet itself is about 10 cm long from the bottom to the tip of the longest piece of "grass". This took a while to make because I had to wait for the glue to dry enough. I actually made 3 more of the heart flowers that I didn't include in the bouquet. The little white flowers weren't nearly so time-consuming to make and I just simply crinkled up some white cardstock. Hopefully you don't think that they look all that bad. I tied it all together with a little piece of black embroidery floss and glue.