How to Make Minimalist Christmas Gift Tags and Place Cards
Make these Minimalist Christmas Gift Tags and/or Place Cards to continue the 2020 hygge, simpler Holiday theme we all grew to love.
Let’s talk about Christmas table décor.
This year we’re all about minimalism, which the Scandinavians do with flare.
So we’re researching simple, hygge concepts for our Christmas table setting when the family comes home for the big celebration. Not big in size, but big in our minds. Important. Valuable to our hearts. That’s why it’s big.
We talked about our family’s non-traditional Christmas menu here, which is a super simple meal to make.
There’s always a little gift on everyone’s plate, which acts as the place card. Sometimes the gift is wrapped in gold foil and tied with a glitzy ribbon. Last year it was black paper with gold accents.
This year, with our minimalist theme, I’ll wrap them in white kraft paper. The ribbon will be several wraps of white baker’s twine with a sprig of pine stuck in.
With a minimalist white tag, made like this:
Minimalist Christmas Star Place-card
What you need:
- white card stock
- ruler, hole punch, scissors, glue, string
Instructions:
- Mark your white card stock into 2.5″ x 4″ rectangles. Cut out.
- Cut a 3/4″ slant off of each top corner. Punch a hole for the string tie centered in the tag’s angle.
- Cut a 2″ star for each tag. Test the star on the bottom right corner, then mark and cut enough of the corner off the tag so the star sticks out over the edges without the tag’s corner showing. Glue the stars on the tags.
- Add the string ties, and attach to your napkins or other place setting item (like our little gifts).
Minimalist Table Centerpiece Décor
Our Christmas table will be very simple, just some pine branches, cut from pines trees in our own yard, laid the length of the table. Or if I want variety, besides our long-needled pine, I’ll visit the Christmas tree lot at Home Depot and see if they’ll let me scrounge their trash bins. They always have lots of trimmings from the trees in their bins, in different pine varieties. And it’s free. We’re upcycling their trash!
In among the greenery we’ll add lots of white candles, some on candlesticks, some in jars. Some tapers, some chunky.
And little white village buildings. Houses and a church and a store, with LED lights inside to make the windows glow. I want to make it magical for the g’littles.
Our dishes are white bone china with a narrow gold rim. The same ones I use for Christmas every year. Our usual water goblets with tiny holly and berry borders will fit right into our simple tablescape.
