How to Design and Make a Homemade Gift Card

Designing and making homemade gift cards is an environmentally friendly and inexpensive way to personalize a gift. All you need to do is use pieces of leftover wrapping paper and ribbon creatively. It won't take oodles of time and neither do you need to be extremely talented at crafts.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Pinking shears
• Colorful wrapping paper
• Ribbon

1. Grab a piece of scrap wrapping paper in the same type of paper you used to wrap the gift.

2. Fold the paper in half and scrape your finger along the edge to make a sharp crease. It will create a straight edge to cut along.

3. Cut along the straight edge with a pair of pinking shears. Cut along the other edges as well if you'd like to create a fancy edge on all sides.

4. Fold the paper in half with the pattern to the outside to create a little card.

5. Poke a small hole in one corner with the pinking shears. Be sure to poke to hole at the corner of one of the folds so that the card can still open. Then slip a piece of ribbon through the hole.

6. Tie the ribbon to the bow on your gift and address the gift tag to the recipient.

Tips & Warnings

• Use rubber stamps if you'd like to make the insides of your cards look nicer.
• If you don't have enough extra wrapping paper, use scrap computer paper or scrap colored paper to make a gift tag. The homemade gift card won't match exactly, but can still look very nice.
• Add beads or buttons to a piece of yarn and use that to attach the homemade gift tag to the present instead of a piece of ribbon.
• A hole punch can make cleaner cut holes for threading ribbon.