Trick or Treat

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Everybody! I thought on this festive day it might be fun to share an easy and quick way to scratch a creative itch.

So, just to clarify, I'm not a scrap booker. I don't like pulling out multitudes of tiny pieces and scraps and spending hours and hours on one page. THEN developing all the photos!!! I mean who does that still? Just kidding, it's probably a very good thing to do with your photos. BUT I do LOVE digital scrapbooking, which is basically the same this minus the mess and the necessity to develop photos. Anyway....now that I have that out of the way, I do love cool paper that is usually used for scrap booking. It's like fabric. The cool designs and possibilities are endless. So if you think cool paper is for hard scrap bookers only? Think again. There are many fun little "paper crafts" you can do to fill your decorative paper fetish. You can find the free Amy Butler "Gift Tag" craft that I did for some Halloween bags here.

I'm thinking of making my holiday presents all about the tag this year. Do you guys think or plan about how you're going to wrap your presents?? Or is that just me? But for reals: wrapped in brown paper, fun ribbon and a cool tag? They are really fun to make. The ones I made for these bags are pretty simplified from the Amy Butler pattern, but they are so because they do take some time to do. But very ideal holiday craft to whip out while your watching TV or winding down after the babes have gone to bed.