With Christmas quickly approaching —it’s always fun to decide on whether you might make some homemade gifts. Tidy Mom decided to share with her readers how to make Homemade Vanilla (a fabulous gift idea for the bakers in your family). She asked if I would design the labels for the bottles and gave me a couple to use for pictures. I went to work and bounced ideas off my sister, as she is much more experienced than myself in Photoshop. I have to admit that I was tickled silly as to how well the labels complimented the bottles Cheryl used. They look fantastic! And, well, the vanilla is fantastic too…
Making your own vanilla couldn’t be easier and it is far more economical than buying the store bought variety. By making your own vanilla extract, you can also try different beans. Beanilla sells bottles and 7 different variety of vanilla beans, each of which has a unique flavor! Using premium grade vanilla beans will provide significantly better flavor and aroma than commercially produced extracts.
Once you’ve made the Homemade Vanilla with Cheryl,
you’ll want to grab the following supplies:
Full Sheet Shipping Label(s), Printer and Scissors.
You could also use white paper and double sided tape.
The labels measure approximately 2×3 each. Be sure that they will fit your bottles.
I printed on the full sheet shipping label and cut each of them by hand.
Now, it’s your turn! Click on the image below to print a sheet of 9 labels.
Then start gifting and/or baking! Keep reading…
Giveaway:
The great people of Beanilla.com would like to give four lucky Tidy Mom & Live Laugh Rowe readers 5 Madagascar vanilla beans,5 Uganda vanilla beans, and two 8 oz decorative glass bottles and a 2 oz bottle of flavoring (for other baking needs) of the readers choice!
I’ll be partying {here, here, here and here}.
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I simply can’t go through a day w/out my vanilla! Daily I use the extract. Loooove the labels, they’re so cute!
would luv to win this and make my own first batch..thanks 4 the chance.
I put vanilla in almost everything from pancakes to cookies. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
What fun to show my girls how their favorite extract is made…and such pretty labels. Love ti!
I have made vanilla with supermarket vanilla beans but I want to try something different. These beans sound wonderful!
I love using lots of vanilla in French Toast!!!
I love cookies with vanilla extract!!!
It would mostly be used in chocolate chip cookies and my cream cheese pound cake. Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway!
Probably bread pudding or Dutchie pancakes. Yum! Thanks!
I love anything made with vanilla. Sometimes I leave a bottle out on the kitchen counter so I can open it and catch the aroma on a whim.
beautiful labels!! fantastic giveaway!!!
I don’t have one, I think I’ll need to try Cheryl’s!
Cool idea!
How fantastic is this give away! Thank you so much for the printable and the chance to win. Just found you today thru BNOTP.
Beautiful Labels, and great giveaway… thank you =) (new follower) Please enter me.
Gorgeous labels plus I love the idea of making your own extract. I love making these shortbread cookies that need a lot of vanilla. I bet this would make them even more delicious!
I made my own vanilla for the first time last year, and I’ll never ‘go back’ to purchased vanilla! I hope to win this wonderful giveaway! Thank you!
I always add vanilla to our french toast… my favorite treat to use it in is probably chocolate chip cookies
We just ran out of our huge bottle of Vanilla from Mexico {guess it is time for another trip!}. I would love to try to make my own now!
This was exactly what I was planning on makking for Christmas … what a present itself to find your labels! Thank you
I like to add a dash of vanilla to our french toast wash and I use it in my favorite pecan pie recipe!
I love making vanilla cake!
I love to use the best vanilla available in my stuffed french toast. Very decadent!
I have to have a high quality vanilla extract for my snickerdoodle recipe – LOVE to make my own
Thanks for the recipe… will use it in my vanilla lemon curd cake…
I’ve been using Mexican vanilla for several years now but have been wanting to make my own and then give some as gifts for Christmas but hadn’t gotten around to ordering any vanilla beans yet. Maybe now’s my chance!
Thanks for the labels. I have vanilla extract “brewing” right now, which i started last month. These are perfect!
Just to let you know I featured your wonderful project today.
Stop by and grab a featured button and thank you so much for sharing your project.
http://carolynshomework.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-inspiration-board-link-party.html
They’re beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
I love the recipie for homemade vanilla extract. And what a clever and unusual gift. I would be thrilled to win the vanilla beans and jars. Thank you for offering it.
Hi Kelly
I just brought the Avery 8165 Labels, after I print out the vanilla extract labels and cut them do I use tape to tape it to the bottles.
Hi Jackie! They should be stickers, so all you need to do is pull off the back and apply to your bottle. Let me know if you have any other questions
Cheers!
Great labels!