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Free Coloring Christmas Gift Tags

December 21, 2015 By Colleen 8 Comments

coloring christmas tagsI have a last minute gift for you. Or for you to give to others. Or both! I drew six Coloring Christmas Gift Tags for you to color yourself or give to someone else who likes to color.

Or both! You can download and print as many as you like, which comes in handy if you don’t have time this week to sit down and color. Although coloring a few minutes here and there might really lessen some of the holiday stress.

coloring-Christmas-tags
Usually sketching is a stress reliever for me, and while I loved sketching these Christmas gift tags, they wound up being a a bit of a stressor. I wanted them to be smallish, two inches wide. But when I printed them out you would’ve needed a magnifying glass to color, the details were so small.

Plan B.

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I enlarged them to approximately 4 x 5″ hoping they’d still be in scale with a package. Or a Starbuck’s bag.

Plan B was working, I thought. My original idea was to give them to you for free then post them in my Etsy shop with a few extras.

coloring-Christmas-tagsWhich meant I’d have to color them since photos speak louder than words and a plain black and white pattern isn’t as appealing as a colored gift tag.

Plan C.

By now I’ve sketched, inked, edited in Photoshop, printed, enlarged in PS, printed again and began coloring.

Somewhere in the mix I lost a week. Seriously. I had my work calendar all laid out – or so I thought – and I woke up the other morning and it was December 18. EIGHTEENTH! As in ONE week until Christmas!

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Forget about listing them in Etsy. Forget about coloring them all in. Forget about decorating the house. (I have two trees up with lights, no ornaments, and garland on the mantel. Done and done.)

I ditched all those plans (stressors) and immediately felt relief. Sure, I wish I had posted these for you two weeks ago but better late than never. And the great things about printables is, once you download them, you have them on your computer for whenever you want.

So let’s get to it –


coloring Christmas tagsPage 1 – Coloring Christmas Gift Tags

All you need is some cardstock or 500 lb. cover paper (which I used), a printer, scissors, a hole punch, colored pencils or markers and then download the links. The first page has 4 up – four tags.

coloring christmas tagsPage 2 – Christmas Coloring Tags

Click on either the photo or the links below them to get the hi resolution printables.

coloring-Christmas-tagsThen all you need to do is decide whether you want to color with pencils or markers. I happen to love Tombow Markers. The fine tip is great for intricate – or small – designs. The colors are rich and brilliant. But you can also blend them or dilute them to get a watercolor effect like I did on these peonies.

Colored pencils are great too, and you can blend them (which I’ll show you soon), but sharpening them tests anyone’s patience.

coloring-Christmas-tagsI hope you enjoy coloring these Christmas tags.

Trust me, coloring this time of the year is not only fun, it also is a great stress reliever. My gift to you.

Merry Christmas my friends!

xoxo

Colleen

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Filed Under: Christmas, crafts, holiday crafts, kids crafts, patterns, printables

Comments

  1. Rose Marie says

    December 21, 2015 at 7:11 am

    I love the penguin one, it is adorable, especially since I am always in awe on how they strut around.

    Happy Holidays to you, may it be filled with happiness, love and Gods Blessing.

    Reply
    • Colleen says

      December 21, 2015 at 7:13 am

      I love penguins too, Rose Marie! There’s something so sweet and fun about them.

      Merry Christmas!

      Reply
  2. Marianne says

    December 21, 2015 at 7:12 am

    They look great Colleen! I will have to work on them in the New Year now as our Christmas was over on the 12th because we are heading to Florida for Christmas and New Years. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Marianne

    Reply
    • Colleen says

      December 21, 2015 at 7:15 am

      How fun, Marianne! Have a wonderful time in Florida.

      Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

      xo

      Reply
  3. Donna B says

    December 21, 2015 at 6:54 pm

    Thank you Colleen! Love these. School is out as of tomorrow so I just might have my grandson help color some for family gifts. Also wanted to thank you for sharing the Graphics Fairy site. I joined just to get your set. I’m wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas holiday.

    Reply
    • Colleen says

      December 22, 2015 at 7:28 am

      Oh how fun, Donna! How old is your grandson? Mine was just here for a visit but he likes to tech-binge at Gramma’s.

      Merry Christmas!

      Reply
  4. Laura S says

    December 24, 2015 at 6:18 am

    Your Tags are adorable! Thank you so much and Merry Christmas!!!

    Reply
    • Colleen says

      December 24, 2015 at 1:25 pm

      Merry Christmas to you too, Laura. And thanks so much for your loyal following. I can’t tell you how much it means.

      btw, I plan to do classes again in 2016. Not sure if I’ll do Google+ or just videos, or both. But I’m itching to teach again. So let me know if there’s anything you’d like to see. I’m totally open to suggestions!

      Merry Christmas
      xo
      Colleen

      Reply

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