Birthday Candy Gift Jar with Balloon Gift Tag

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Every month, a group of bloggers are challenged by C’mon Get Crafty to create a new craft or project from their own stash of goodies! Everyone is allowed a $10 allowance for necessities to complete their project (i.e. paint brushes, glue, etc), but the bulk of it must be created from their own stash of goodies.

This month I am sharing a quick and easy gift idea. I put these together for my cousins this year, and thought it was a cute little idea. I had trouble deciding whether to put the first letter of their name on the gift tag, or the balloon motif, but the motif has been on my list for a while now.

I had everything on hand for this project, except the candy jars, but I picked those up at my local Dollar Tree for only a $2.13 investment.

Materials:

• Small Jar – Specifically, I used this Candy Jars with Ribbed Accents I found at my local Dollar Tree
• Candy – I filled each one with 7 snack size bars, and 6 peanut butter cups
• Small Amount of Aunt Lydia’s Classic #10 Cotton Crochet Thread
• 2.35mm Crochet Hook
• Crochet Balloons Applique, Free Crochet Pattern from Petals to Picots
• Small Amount of Cardstock, or a 3.25″ tall by 1.38″ wide tag
• Hot Glue and Sticks
• Spare Thread for Attaching
• Tape Measure/Ruler
• Optional, Spray Adhesive

Material Notes:

Motif: In place of the crocheted balloons, you could cut a balloon motif out of some felt or scrapbook paper, or maybe even find an appropriate sticker or stamp in the scrapbooking aisle of your local craft store.

Tag: I cut my tags from cardstock I had on hand, but you could buy pre-cut tags. Uline has some pretty colored ones in a large variety of sizes.

Time Spent:

The balloon motif took me under 10 minutes to work up, and the whole process of putting the gift together took about an additional 5 minutes. So quick, and easy!

Crochet Pattern Notes:

The balloon pattern was so easy to follow! After I finished the first one, I had the pattern memorized already to complete my second one.

Cute little pattern. I think the only thing I would change for next time is the “string”. I think I might actually work up a chain “string”.

Gift Tag DIY:

I used my tape measure to cut the two tags out of some cardstock from my stash.

Then I used my hot glue gun to secure the balloons to the tags. If I were to do these again, I would try crocheting a chain “string”, so I wouldn’t have to worry, but as is, you can see in the green one that hot gluing the “string down” looks ugly and messy. I should have used some spray adhesive for this as is, but I was rushing to gift the jars, so I just went with what I had.

Jar Gift:

I pulled some candy out of my fridge (because they’re better cold!)…

And filled the little jars up.

For the tag, I threaded my needle with some extra crochet #10 cotton thread, poked it through the balloon, and cardstock, and tied it around the jar, finishing with a simple square knot.

I only made two, and I color coded the balloons so I knew who it was going to, but you could write on the bag of the tag the name of the recipient.

So quick, so easy, so fun, and so versatile!

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