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Easy DIY Graduation Themed Tags

For those of you that read my DIY Gift: Brownie in a Mug post, this goes along with it!

In that post you saw a tag that had all the directions on it, but you however did not get to see the decorated side of the tag!

This Graduation Themed Tag is really versatile, the possibilities on expanding this idea are truly endless as I will go on to explain later.

First you'll need a few supplies:

I have for mine:

Tags - no clue what size they are, doesn't really matter

My little Owl Stamp by Hero Arts

Color Box ink - Black

Some sort of glue runner - Mine's from walmart (Elmer's brand, which I believe they have stopped carrying)

Those realllllllly tiny pieces in the topish right are grad hat confetti

First I stamped my little guy onto the tag (attempting to center, but not really succeeding)

Then I attached a little grad hat for him!

Now to take this idea to a further level, you could even attach a little party hat, or a clown wig...I'm not really sure how many types of confetti there are, but this is truly an easy way to make a mass amount of something...confetti is cheap!

This is by far one of the cutest things I've made, plus you'll get several compliments for your genius idea muahaha, how marvelous!?

I hope you try this little guy out, it's just so simple, but cute!

July 03, 2014
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DIY Gift: Brownie in a Mug

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With all the grad parties rapidly approaching (at least for me, newly high school graduate in case you wondering), I am in desperate need for cheap, cute, and not awful DIY gifts for all of my newly graduated friends. After doing hours and hours of Pinterest research I finally found something simple, cheap, and easy, but also practical.

Brownie in a mug sounds interesting, right? This quirky, but cute gift can go for a dollar or less depending if you have all the ingredients or not. For those off you who know what baked goods in a jar are, this will be really relevant.

First thing we'll go over is the supplies and ingredients needed.

For this project you can do it one of two ways. Either by putting a bag holding the ingredients inside the cup, which is what I'm showing you in this tutorial, or by putting the ingredients directly inside the cup and either putting a top on it or by putting the whole cup into a bag and tying it at the top.

Supplies:

Mug(s) - These cute ones are from my local dollar store

Treat Bags - These are from Joann's and I believe their original intent was for pretzels

Tags - The tags are to write the directions for cooking and ingredients to be added