Christmas Gifts to Make (with Christmas Label Download)

12 easy to make Christmas gift basket ideas with free downloadable Christmas mason jar labels. I estimate that if you buy all the listed ingredients it should cost about $40-$50 and you can get about 6 batches of deodorant, 15 batches of hand lotion, 8 pints of beeswax lotion, 4 batches of Winter Hand Salve, and countless tins of lip balm or tubes of homemade chapstick. Not too bad!

Each year at Christmas I enjoy making the people I love a collection of homemade goodies. It’s a fun little task to make up all sorts of little bottles and jars full of lovely hand lotions and edible goodies and lip balms. And I love packaging all these creations up together. Each year I try and make it a little different. Different packaging, different baskets or boxes, and different combinations of lotions, potions and preserves.

All the body care recipes that I create are much easier to make than a batch of cookies. I also try my very best to make sure that my recipes are much more affordable than store bought. For me, if anything is too complicated or too expensive, I just won’t make it. All the recipes I list below are simple to make and very affordable.

In the photo above I used a thrift store basket with a thrift store red napkin along with some fresh cut cedar boughs. Inside I placed:

In addition, you could also add these easy to make items:

 
For a handful of dollars you can buy my Simple Hand Crafted Body Care ebooklet that provides 6 body care recipes that I personally use myself everyday. The booklet also includes a separate label download. The recipes found in that are:

  • Body Butter (seriously a wonderful lotion that I love more than anything store bought)
  • Lip Balm (I really do use this one every day, it’s lovely)
  • Microdermabrasion Scrub (a wonderful facial scrub that you could make with ingredients in your kitchen today)
  • Soothing Bath Salts
  • Spicy Aftershave

You can buy the ebooklet directly here:
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12 easy to make Christmas gift basket ideas with free downloadable Christmas mason jar labels. I estimate that if you buy all the listed ingredients it should cost about $40-$50 and you can get about 6 batches of deodorant, 15 batches of hand lotion, 8 pints of beeswax lotion, 4 batches of Winter Hand Salve, and countless tins of lip balm or tubes of homemade chapstick. Not too bad!

It’s my guess that you already have olive oil, baking soda, cornstarch and honey (and applesauce or other summer canned goodness) in your kitchen. Add in a few more ingredients that I’ve listed below and you’ll have yourself the base to make pretty much all of the items above. I estimate that if you buy all the listed ingredients it should cost about $40-$50 and you can get about 6 batches of deodorant, 15 batches of hand lotion, 8 pints of beeswax lotion, 4 batches of Winter Hand Salve, and countless tins of lip balm or tubes of homemade chapstick. Not too bad!

The label design is inspired by my love of all things Scandinavian at Christmas time. I just love the simple white and red and that folksy cross stitching is so sweet. You will see that there are two sized labels, one for wide mouth canning jars and one for small mouth jars. The smaller label also works for those cute 2 oz tin lids. Click on the image below and it will take you directly to the download page. Print them out at full size (Adobe Reader tends to shrink things slightly, so double check in your print window that it doesn’t reduce your file.) on Avery Sticker Project Paper. Cut them out and you are ready to adorn your gifts. Enjoy!
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Comments

  1. says

    I can even begin to tell you how great your site is!! I’ve ordered the stuff for making hand lotion using your affiliate link so hopefully that will kick some funds back to you.

  2. Lori says

    Thank you for reminding me of your lotion recipe – I’ve been searching for a good handmade gift for friends and co-workers, and I think this will be the perfect solution!

  3. says

    I just love your blog! I just started a blog myself focusing on my love of all things DIY and, particularly, right now, on my obsession with green cleaning. I don’t know if it will ever be this lovely though :) Great job, lovely photos and informative posts. I especially appreciate these labels. I’m sure I’ll be printing some out soon for my homemade holiday gift.

  4. says

    I just wanted to drop by and let you know that I’ve linked to gift tags/labels that you designed. The post is located here http://burdart.blogspot.com/2009/11/free-printable-artist-made-gift-tags.html There is also a text only post for slower connections just below it. Thank you for sharing your art so freely. I would love it if you would let me know if you have designed other tags or labels that should be included. And please, by all means, share this post. Stamp out store tags! 😉
    Francie

    • says

      OMG Francie…………I just love your blog. I am supposed to be doing homework and googled for some canning label images for harvest; came across Scott & Kendra’s “A Sonoma Garden” and ran into your response for your blog…………anyway I’m just so excited about finding A Sonoma Garden and finding you, especially on Etsy. I buy Etsy all of the time. I love it. Just wanted to send a big thanks to both of you for kicking my creative thinking into high gear!!
      Kim

  5. says

    I’ve been searching for some labels for the tops of my jars and these are perfect. When I download the pdf it looks like a scan of a photo is on top of the design so the labels aren’t usable. Am I the only one having trouble with the file?

    • asonomagarden says

      Mama Urchin – I just double checked and I’m not seeing anything wrong with the file. You are downloading the actual pdf, right? Maybe you downloaded the flickr image instead??? WIsh I could help, but maybe try and download it again and see if it works.

  6. dani says

    Thank you SO MUCH! This is totally perfect for the peppermint bath salts my girls and I are making. Lovely. Thank you!

  7. Laura says

    Thank you so much! These are perfect, and I love them. I am having the same problem as Mama Urchin, though. When I download it, it shows the scan of something that looks like the original embroidery? I have tried several times and I keep getting the same image. I see the labels, but the scan is super-imposed on the top of it. I am using a MacBook. Any ideas, anyone?

    Merry Christmas!

    • asonomagarden says

      Ach! Laura & Mama Urchin, sorry about the image problem. I looked back in the file and saw there was a hidden layer in there, I took it out and it should be all fixed. Sorry about that! Print away ladies!

    • Laura says

      I just reprinted these labels! Problem solved! I know this is such a busy time. I so appreciate that you took the time to look into this! Merry Christmas to you! Many thanks!!!!

  8. says

    I just found your site and i’m in love! I just ordered everything I need to make hand lotion and chapstick. One question though… where do you buy the jars for the lotion? I haven’t seen them anywhere local, so i’m hoping maybe you know somewhere online. Do you use 2oz for the hand lotion?

    Thanks!!!!

  9. says

    I think this is such a wonderful idea to make a gift basket for Christmas for friends and relatives using things that you make yourself. Such a warm feeling for the people at the receiving end.

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