One of our favorite Christmas traditions is drawing family names for a gift exchange. We usually just scribble names on scraps of paper, then draw them out of a bowl.
I thought it would be fun to make a special can with personalized name tags. I know this will become a treasured Christmas keepsake that we use every year.
I used an empty
Piroutte cookie can from Walmart (left over from cookies we dipped in
hot chocolate, yum!).
I found some green spray paint in my garage and
painted the lid. Then I covered the metal can with these festive papers
from the Winter Wonderland collection.
I used double stick tape and the heavy duty red scrapbook tape (for the seam in the back). The present sticker border was perfect for our "Gift Exchange" can. I embellished the can with chipboard stickers, enamel dots, a sticker, and twine.
For the name tags, I printed the names in
red ink on the light blue "At Home" patterned paper and stitched around
them. Then Iayered the patterned Christmas papers and added decorative
brads and present chipboard pieces.
