Personalized Gift Tags

You can buy any number of gift tags but here is a way to make a customized set that no one else will have.

Materials:

A photo of the cutest kid(s) you can find (hopefully related to you) holding a piece of paper

cardstock or photo paper

Tools:

computer

printer

Photoshop

Photograph the child in front of a blank wall holding a blank piece of paper. If that doesn't work, use Photoshop to select the child using the polygonal lasso tool. Go to SELECT>INVERSE to select everything but the child. Select a color from the color picker, go to EDIT>FILL and fill with foreground color. Paint the piece of paper in the child's hands white with the paint brush tool to erase the images on it(if necessary). I also put a black line around the paper to define it again using the polygonal lasso then EDIT>STROKE. Erase the outline from the fingers. Using the crop tool, crop to the entire picture to an 8 x 10" size. (You can input the size in the options bar) When you are happy with the picture, go to FILE>SAVE.

Go to FILE>PICTURE PACKAGE (in Photoshop) and under "layout" select sizes and amounts of the same picture. The following picture and the one after it show 9 and 16 copies of the photo respectively. Print.

Cut pictures apart, glue on tag or punch a hole, tie on package and write "to" and "from". Amaze your friends and family.

If you print a set of 4, you can use them as thank you notes, allowing the child to write "Thank You" on the blank piece of paper on the front and perhaps elaborate (or draw a picture) on the back.

Yes he does have to thank his aunt for the socks and underwear.