Christmas in April [Belated!]: Confetti Tags

I have so many Christmas project ideas bookmarked that I knew I would never get to them all unless I started working on them throughout the year.  To that end, I started my Christmas in [Insert Month Here] series.  I had my April project completed early in the month, but the weeks got away from me, and now I am posting my results belatedly, in May.

Oh well, better late than never!

I did another paper project, this time using a tutorial for confetti tags from The Creative Place.  When Ashley, of The Creative Place, creates books and albums to sell in her Etsy shop, she often includes a confetti page, which has such a fun and festive air about it.  I really like the way she converted this idea into making festive confetti tags, which would work for Christmas or any holiday equally well.

She has a detailed step-by-step guide for making them on her site, but I'll just walk you through the basics of what I did.  Check out Ashley's site for her wonderful step-by-step photo directions.

First, I used a hole punch to create confetti in red, green, and multi-colored paper.  You could adjust your colors to suit the holiday.  It would be great to use leftovers from previous projects, as Ashley does, to make this an eco-friendly project!  I stored all the little circles in a resealable plastic bag, though you could put them in a little cup or bowl, too.

I used a manila shipping tag as a template to create two white shipping tags.  You could change the color of the tag to suit the holiday.  I used a circle cutter to create a window in one of the tags.  I left the second tag intact.

Then I created a little pocket for the confetti out of a plastic page protector.  I sewed up three of the sides before filling it with the confetti, and then adhesive to close up the fourth side.  If you don't sew, I imagine you could use adhesive for all four sides.  (For this project, I used a glue runner.)

I used the same glue runner to cover the window tag on one side with sticky.  Then I adhered the confetti pocket behind the window, and then adhered the non-window tag over that.  You have a sandwich:  window tag, confetti pouch, non-window tag.  I had to really use my fingers to squeeze the tags together so there were no gaps once the glue dried.  In some cases I had to trim some edges so the tags were exactly aligned.

Finally, I used that manila shipping tag as a template to know where to punch a hole in the top of my tag, and I added a ribbon for the completed tag.

I think they look festive and fun, and my daughters have already asked me to be sure to put them on their Christmas packages this year!