Are you going to a 4th of July cookout or celebration? Are you bringing your favorite potluck dish? Don’t forget to bring a little something for your hostess, she/he will be delighted. Time might be tight to think of a little gift so close to the holiday, so I thought of one for you. Dress up a plain gift bag with a red, white & blue gift tag. I also threw in some hues of pinks and different shades of blue too. Look around for different shaped punches or get creative with your scissors.
I was trying to think of how I could get a fireworks effect with the tag and decided to use two shades of blue with my Daisy punch. 
So, so easy. Put a bag of marshmallows, chocolate bars and a box of graham crackers inside the bag. I like to choose the square shaped crackers so I don’t have to break the rectangles (I never break them evenly). Your hostess can use these for future summer fun.
Homemade cookies are also a great hostess gift. Your host may need a sugary snack during clean up time. The recipe for these butterscotch cookies is right on the back of the Toll House Butterscotch chips. Yum! For the tag, I used the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, but you can easily cut a rectangle or use another shaped top. Cut a few stripes of patriotic shades of card stock and tape them down to the tag base. So very quick and easy.
Here are three Patriotic tag samples and a coordinating card. Look around your house to see what you have for card stock, punches, shapes & stamps. In addition to the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, I used the new Delightful Tag Topper punch (which punches 3 different sizes). I didn’t have any patriotic stamps, but I think I made what I have work pretty well. Train your eyes to look at your own stamps differently. I used different shades of blue, reds, pinks and white. The striped pattern paper is from the Come Sail Away Designer Series Paper.
Use a post-it note to help you customize your stamping. I didn’t want the “you” to appear on the card, so I placed a post-it note down to catch the inked “you”. The “Hooray” & “Let’s Celebrate You” stamp are found in the Broadway Birthday stamp set, the set that everyone received and used for the Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser class in May.
I hope this quick and easy patriotic gift idea is helpful to you! Happy 4th of July!!!!
