Homemade FE Gifts Photo Thread

[kendzee94]

We did the FE for the first time on our Alaskan Cruise. We really enjoyed it and I had fun making our gifts to give. I put Mickey heads on small bags and each family got one with a deck of Disney playing cards, 2 bookmarks, a keychain, and each kid in the room got a Disney pencil. Here are some pictures of what I made. (this is my first post with pictures so hopefully this works)

Thanks PRCMickey!! DD has the keychains on her backpack for school and is using the bookmarks! Very creative!

 

[Susiesark]

Does anyone know how I can personalize lip balm? What type/size labels?

 

[ravensilverlight]

Does anyone know how I can personalize lip balm? What type/size labels?

You can print labels at home - you'll probably need about a 2x2 label, which you can easily buy almost anywhere (Walmart, Staples, etc.). The problem is, printing at home will leave you with a label on which the ink may run or smudge, especially if it gets wet...that would be bad.

You could try sealing your labels with some kind of clear coat - spray gloss, mod podge, even clear packing tape would probably work - but it can be labor-intensive to do it that way.

Of course, I'm assuming your printer is ink-jet - a laser printer won't generally have that problem.

Alternatively, you could try using a P touch label maker. The only downside to this, is that the largest label I know of for the p touch is 1 1/2". That may not be a big deal to you, and if it's not, this could help you avoid the whole ink-smear mess.

Other than those ideas, I'd say you'd have to head to a pro - either a commercial printer or a place that does custom work for you. It depends on how much you're looking to spend, and how much work you're willing to do.

Someone else might have some more input, but that's what I've found in my own experience.

 

[KaryCam]

Here's the FE that I just finished for our first cruise.

 

[Cptjackandcrew]

Here's the FE that I just finished for our first cruise.

You did such a beautiful job!!

 

[miry]

You can print labels at home - you'll probably need about a 2x2 label, which you can easily buy almost anywhere (Walmart, Staples, etc.). The problem is, printing at home will leave you with a label on which the ink may run or smudge, especially if it gets wet...that would be bad.

You could try sealing your labels with some kind of clear coat - spray gloss, mod podge, even clear packing tape would probably work - but it can be labor-intensive to do it that way.

Of course, I'm assuming your printer is ink-jet - a laser printer won't generally have that problem.

Alternatively, you could try using a P touch label maker. The only downside to this, is that the largest label I know of for the p touch is 1 1/2". That may not be a big deal to you, and if it's not, this could help you avoid the whole ink-smear mess.

Other than those ideas, I'd say you'd have to head to a pro - either a commercial printer or a place that does custom work for you. It depends on how much you're looking to spend, and how much work you're willing to do.

Someone else might have some more input, but that's what I've found in my own experience.

If it were me I would create my own label, but take them to be printed at a Kinko's type of place. They can print or copy on a laser printer and may even be able to do it on clear labels if that is what you want. We did something similar with water bottles and large waterproof labels for a conference. Good luck.

 

[Milio99]

Here's the FE that I just finished for our first cruise.

Love it!

 

[Roxy217]

I'll say thanks for the DW as she still doesn't post on here (And she claims to be a Disney fan, HA!).

The design is not all that compliacted, she uses seed beeds and then has a small gauge wire running the entire length of the design.

The ears are just loops that have 2 beads from the main hoop, so the wire wraps around itself to form the ears. The two "ends" join at the top where the crimp is (silver square) and then it is wrapped around the earring fixture.

Well...she says it isn't complicated. I've seen here crank out easily 4-6 sets a night for the last couple of weeks getting ready for our cruise.

I'll drop you a PM with her e-mail address (you too o4me2playn) so you can ask her more questions if you wish.

Please PM me with further details - I love these!! We are cursing in February 2010 - my husbands parents 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY!!

 

[pinkxray]

I thought I would share our FE gifts from Oct 20th. I got a lot of inspiration from this thread

I am cutting it out of my trip report so I will share homeade and everything else we gave.

Hope everyone liked their gifts

For the adults I made a magnet (I think all of the designs that have our cruise date were from Shadowryter except the itinerary photo which I think I got from Milliepie but adding the dates myself)

Every adult bag had a Halloween hand sanitizer from Bath and Body works (pretty much everyone except the little kids also got one but different designs)

I also gave every person in our group chapstick with a Disney Dream label. I ordered the lip balm and labels from Bulk Apothecary online and printed the designs on myself. I thought they turned our super cute. I had a hard time get the designs fitted on the labels right and Bulk Apothecary was nice enough to send me some more labels without having to pay the additional shipping charge. They customer service was great! I got vanilla or cherry for the females and regular (some might have ended up with vanilla since I didn’t open them) for the males.

I also used a Jordak the design (he is on the cruise magnet thread) and added a calendar file to make a large postcard for 2012. I was going to make it a magnet but decided to let people decide what to do with it on their own.

Adult FE-

I found pirate sandwich bags on clearance at Target for $.25 a few weeks before we left and used them for almost everyone except the little girls just b/c their gift didn’t fit.

Labels

We didn’t have any little boys. I think the youngest was 11? All the teen boys got

Pirate Playing Cards

(I forget who the stickers went to? Maybe anyone under 10)

Hand sanitizer- I tried to give them Zombie tonic and the others to the adults

They also got candy,gum, and lip balm

For all the girls I made necklaces. Little girls got characters, tween age got pirate, and older girls got Hidden Mickey designs

Most of the girls except the younger ones got Vampire Blood hand sanitizer. I thought it was cute since most girls seem to know Twilight. DD7 disagreed.

Older girls

There were only 3 or 4 other little girls besides Caitlin so I made them all photo albums.

Front and back
On the inside I put the itinerary

They also got candy and maybe stickers?

The photo albums didn’t fit in the pirate bags so I used princess lunch bags also in the Target $ section when school started.

Thanks for the ideas!

 

[Cptjackandcrew]

I thought I would share our FE gifts from Oct 20th. I got a lot of inspiration from this thread

I am cutting it out of my trip report so I will share homeade and everything else we gave.

Hope everyone liked their gifts

For the adults I made a magnet (I think all of the designs that have our cruise date were from Shadowryter except the itinerary photo which I think I got from Milliepie but adding the dates myself)

Every adult bag had a Halloween hand sanitizer from Bath and Body works (pretty much everyone except the little kids also got one but different designs)

I also gave every person in our group chapstick with a Disney Dream label. I ordered the lip balm and labels from Bulk Apothecary online and printed the designs on myself. I thought they turned our super cute. I had a hard time get the designs fitted on the labels right and Bulk Apothecary was nice enough to send me some more labels without having to pay the additional shipping charge. They customer service was great! I got vanilla or cherry for the females and regular (some might have ended up with vanilla since I didn’t open them) for the males.

I also used a Jordak the design (he is on the cruise magnet thread) and added a calendar file to make a large postcard for 2012. I was going to make it a magnet but decided to let people decide what to do with it on their own.

Adult FE-

I found pirate sandwich bags on clearance at Target for $.25 a few weeks before we left and used them for almost everyone except the little girls just b/c their gift didn’t fit.

Labels

We didn’t have any little boys. I think the youngest was 11? All the teen boys got

Pirate Playing Cards

(I forget who the stickers went to? Maybe anyone under 10)

Hand sanitizer- I tried to give them Zombie tonic and the others to the adults

They also got candy,gum, and lip balm

For all the girls I made necklaces. Little girls got characters, tween age got pirate, and older girls got Hidden Mickey designs

Most of the girls except the younger ones got Vampire Blood hand sanitizer. I thought it was cute since most girls seem to know Twilight. DD7 disagreed.

Older girls

There were only 3 or 4 other little girls besides Caitlin so I made them all photo albums.

Front and back
On the inside I put the itinerary

They also got candy and maybe stickers?

The photo albums didn’t fit in the pirate bags so I used princess lunch bags also in the Target $ section when school started.

Thanks for the ideas!

These are all wonderful! I especially love the necklaces.

 

[ppiew]

where did you get the calendar template? what is the calendar made of/

 

[Roxy217]

I thought I would share our FE gifts from Oct 20th. I got a lot of inspiration from this thread

I am cutting it out of my trip report so I will share homeade and everything else we gave.

Hope everyone liked their gifts

For the adults I made a magnet (I think all of the designs that have our cruise date were from Shadowryter except the itinerary photo which I think I got from Milliepie but adding the dates myself)

Every adult bag had a Halloween hand sanitizer from Bath and Body works (pretty much everyone except the little kids also got one but different designs)

I also gave every person in our group chapstick with a Disney Dream label. I ordered the lip balm and labels from Bulk Apothecary online and printed the designs on myself. I thought they turned our super cute. I had a hard time get the designs fitted on the labels right and Bulk Apothecary was nice enough to send me some more labels without having to pay the additional shipping charge. They customer service was great! I got vanilla or cherry for the females and regular (some might have ended up with vanilla since I didn’t open them) for the males.

I also used a Jordak the design (he is on the cruise magnet thread) and added a calendar file to make a large postcard for 2012. I was going to make it a magnet but decided to let people decide what to do with it on their own.

Adult FE-

I found pirate sandwich bags on clearance at Target for $.25 a few weeks before we left and used them for almost everyone except the little girls just b/c their gift didn’t fit.

Labels

We didn’t have any little boys. I think the youngest was 11? All the teen boys got

Pirate Playing Cards

(I forget who the stickers went to? Maybe anyone under 10)

Hand sanitizer- I tried to give them Zombie tonic and the others to the adults

They also got candy,gum, and lip balm

For all the girls I made necklaces. Little girls got characters, tween age got pirate, and older girls got Hidden Mickey designs

Most of the girls except the younger ones got Vampire Blood hand sanitizer. I thought it was cute since most girls seem to know Twilight. DD7 disagreed.

Older girls

There were only 3 or 4 other little girls besides Caitlin so I made them all photo albums.

Front and back
On the inside I put the itinerary

They also got candy and maybe stickers?

The photo albums didn’t fit in the pirate bags so I used princess lunch bags also in the Target $ section when school started.

Thanks for the ideas!

I LOVE all your FE gifts & I am truly inspired for our 2/2012 cruise!!
How did you make the necklaces? I love them!!

 

[simbasmom2]

Great ideas! I did something similar to the lip balm...we made labels for hand sanitizers. The ink ran on the labels so we covered them with clear packing tape and cut it to size. It was perfect!

 

[teach819]

I love the cover of the photo albums! And those necklaces are so cute!

 

[ForTheLoveOfDCL]

Where did you get the hidden mickey Graphic? Have scribble necklaces and I would like to put them on the tiles. suggestions would be appreciated!!!!

 

[pinkxray]

Thanks for the nice replies. I wasn't sure going into it if our gifts would turn out okay, but I ended up being happy with everything.

The necklaces I made using the directions on the thread. I think it was around pg. 107. I used diamond glaze to glue the image to the tile. Then I used superglue to attach the bale(I think that is what it is called, the part the thread goes through) I purchased the tile, ribbons, and diamond glaze from etsy and the bales from ebay.

For the calendar I just googled a 2012 jpg. file. I added it to a word document and added the image to the top. I had them printed from Vistaprint as an oversized postcard. They were super cheap b/c I signed up for the e-mails from them for special and ordered when they had a great sale. I think they were free and I only had to pay shipping.

I found the hidden mickey designs info on this thread somewhere, but not sure where. Hopefully whoever has it will chime in or if I locate it I will post it.

Thanks again

 

[pinkxray]

Just wanted to share one more item. I didn't use this as an FE gift, but will probably go with this for the adults next time. Since it will be a few years until we cruise again I thought I would post it.

I purchased a notebook and pen from Vistaprint. If you are thinking of getting anything from there make sure you sign up for there emails. They are always sending out deals and free items. I got the notebook, calendar postcards, and pen free with only the shipping cost. You would have to pay a few dollars per notebook after but with all the other stuff I got it probably would have worked out the same.

I thought it would be cute to take notes during your cruise and a nice reminder once home.

 

[marciemouse]

I have a friend who has offered to let me use her cricut. (She only uses it for scrapbooking though, so no help with my questions!) I've never used one before. How do you cut out the DCL logo/etc? Is it a cartridge you purchase or what? Even a Mickey head would work, too. I was thinking of making stainless steel water bottles (kind of like 7evans did). I'm guessing you use vinyl, but how do you apply it to the water bottles? Thanks!

 

[Roxy217]

Unfortunately the photos have not come out well. I had lanyards made with the name of out cruise meet thread and the dates on as the main gift, but I also made those. All ladies and the girls 6 and over got a cell phone / bag charm spelling out the word Magic with Swarovsky crystals in the ship's colours as accents. For the boys, I had lampwork beads made and turned them into zipper pulls/ bag charms. The boys aged 6 to 9 got Mickeys and the older boys got skulls with Mickey ears.

Corinna

How did you do the lanyards? They are awesome!!!

 

[tinkmom2]

I have a friend who has offered to let me use her cricut. (She only uses it for scrapbooking though, so no help with my questions!) I've never used one before. How do you cut out the DCL logo/etc? Is it a cartridge you purchase or what? Even a Mickey head would work, too. I was thinking of making stainless steel water bottles (kind of like 7evans did). I'm guessing you use vinyl, but how do you apply it to the water bottles? Thanks!

There are two different Mickey cartridges. One is Mickey font which has the Disney logo in the program. I made small Mickey heads with this program too. There is another cartridge that has more Mickey designs it's called Mickey scrapbooking. I purchased both the cartrides and vinyl on Ebay. I also purchased a Princesses cartridge.