Used Postage Stamp Christmas Tags - To Personalize Your Gifts
I always keep the used postage stamps of envelopes, especially the interesting ones. Normally, in the run-up to Christmas, you get the best postage stamps with the most fun images. That gave me the idea to make these postage stamp Christmas tags.
Every year, I love to make my gift tags, which also add to the present and make them more personal. Sometimes, they are even a gift in themselves, like with the upcycled denim tags and the monogrammed personalized tags.
DIY Postage Stamp Christmas Tags
These postage stamp Christmas tags are easy to make and can be personalized to the recipient. By choosing images on the stamps that have significance to the gift recipient. For example, my father is an ornithologist, so I always use stamps with pictures of birds on them for his postage stamp Christmas tags.
These Christmas tags also cost very little and are a great way of repurposing old stamps. There are more great postage stamp craft ideas here.
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What You Need To Make Postage Stamp Tags
You need old used postage stamps for this; I already had a big pile of stamps at home in my craft cupboard.
Used postage stamps can be bought very cheaply online (try eBay or Amazon) or even in Charity shops in big bundles.
How To Make Postage Stamp Christmas Tags
1.. First, sort through the stamps. I found many Christmas-themed stamps in my stamp stash, which I kept to one side.
I also picked out stamps that would be suited for the gift recipient. My father writes Wildlife books, so I picked out stamps with pictures of birds and animals for his gift tags.
My husband loves skiing, so I used a stamp with a picture of a skier for his tag.
The great thing about stamps is that there are loads of different pictures, so it is easy to find something that will relate to the person you're making the gift tag for.
2. Next, decide which stamp you will use for each postage stamp Christmas tag.
Glue it to the Kraft tag with the glue stick. Then add a little Christmas trim to the tag with washi tape. Then, finish off the tag by adding festive Bakers twine in a red and white stripe.
The hardest thing is deciding on what stamp to use.
I love these tags because they have a vintage vibe, and it's fun picking the right stamp for the right person. Of course, they are not just for Christmas; you could use the same idea to make Birthday gift tags.
They would be great to use when making your friends gifts. These tags could easily be transformed into handmade bookmarks.
As well as loving all the pictures on the stamps and all the colours they come in too. I sorted some of my postage stamps into colours to make some gorgeous rainbow postage stamp jar decoupage tea lights.
Other Christmas gift tag ideas on Pillarboxblue include felt monogram gift tags, luxury handmade gift tags and map heart gift tags.
I think these vintage snowflake drawings would look fabulous as gift tags.
As a former stamp collector, I found these tags adorable! Now all I need is the extra time to devote to making them...maybe for next year!
Thank you, Kathy. I bet you have some lovely Christmas stamps in your collection.
You're going to get tired of me commenting, but I included these on a stamp project roundup and I love them! I even posted an update where I showed off my own version, but all credit went to you, of course! Such an easy and inexpensive idea. 🙂
Thank you, Angela. I like your tags too and the fact that you upcycled shop tags.
Another lovely project, Claire! Thank you for sharing @Vintage Charm--pinned!
Thank you !
I have some vintage Christmas Seals stamps - I must confess I will be copying this idea for my Christmas cards this year. Thanks!
Thank you, glad to have inspired you.
Awesome idea, Claire, and so easy to make. Am starting to save stamps from now on.
Thanks ! yes it's a really easy craft and stamps are a great thing to re-use.
Thank you so much for linking up to the Mad Skills Link Party. I will be featuring this tutorial in this month's newsletter!
Thank you very much ! Merry Christmas
wow! these are so fun! pinning to my diy gifts board.
Thank you ! I just looked are your diy gift boards there are some good pins on there.
Lot these! Such a creative idea.
Thank you so much !
I love these tags–they're so much nicer and more personal than any you could buy!
Thank you ! I love to make things more personal.
Love these and they are very vintage and look fantastic. You make lots of super cool things, you are very talented! You could extend the same idea to use on other stuff like notepads, cards or furniture like you did with your wonderful map chairs?
Thank you very much ! I like the idea of notepads and cards. You would need a lot of stamps for a chair but it is doable, mind you if I've done a Marimekko bench then I can do a stamp chair. Cheers and Merry Christmas !!
These are great! Love them
Cheers and thank you !