Honey Bottle Gift Tags

My husband and I support the Adopt a Beehive program on the Big Island.  We believe that bees are a necessary element to the agriculture industry, so we willingly donate to Adopt a Beehive and in return receive bottles of honey several times a year and have our name on one of the hives on the Hilo agriculture campus. I am so impressed with the quality of the honey that I dressed up some of the bottles to give away at upcoming events.

Since I just recently purchased a Hero Arts honeycomb design foiling plate for use with my Spellbinders foiling machine, I felt it was perfect for glamming up the honey bottle tags.  At first I was just going to hot foil the gold onto yellow card stock and then die cut the hexagon shape but then I thought the same idea would work on printed card stock. I chose some Pink and Main bee themed card stock from a 6x6 paper pad. The foil was applied easily and then the tags were die cut with the Spellbinders hexagon die.  Some Sticko bee stickers were applied to each tag. Then a small round paper punch was used on the top of each tag and raffia was attached. Some small squares of washi paper with fibers included were positioned on top of each bottle before the raffia with tags was tied to each one. A short message was written behind each tag.  I am pleased with the outcome of the decorated honey bottles and hope that the recipients will appreciate the hard work the bees did to produce the 'nectar of the gods'!

DID YOU KNOW?  Honey is the only food that needs no preservatives.  It was found in the tombs of the Egyptians still in edible condition!