I'm only a so-so cook but one of my daughters is an aspiring chef. I'm thinking about having her put her culinary skills to work creating holiday gifts for friends and family. My contribution would be printing labels and tags for her various baked goods -- cakes are her specialty. I might start with some of these Vintage product labels offered at HP.com. The come as PDF files. There are both labels and tags for some styles. HP provides instructions on printing and cutting out the labels.

Or, try some of these:

• From the kitchen of... About.com Southern Food Guide Diana Rattray has several holiday gift tags for your homemade edibles in .doc format.
• From the kitchen of... About.com Greek Food Guide Nancy Gaifylia has a few tags featuring Greek text.
• Land o' Lakes Free Gift-Giving Labels are PDF files with labels that feature simple holiday or cooking related images.
• Martha Stewart's Clip Art and Templates feature downloadable PDFs for all kinds of labels for your own use or for gifts. There are also recipe cards, luggage tags, stencil templates for a canvas rug, coaster templates, and lots more.

Making your own envelopes can be a bit time-consuming but bulk store-bought envelopes can be boring.

If you have a large stash of plain white envelopes, dress them up with an envelope liner. Canon's Creative Park has dozens of colorful envelope liner templates you can download, print, cut out, and then insert into your envelope.

There are three Halloween designs too. Tuck a Halloween surprise into your next card or letter.

Here's more Halloween Printables and Craft Ideas.

Can a grunge font be a "must-have" font? Whether you think so or not, this is a nice-looking list of freebies (hmmm... can grunge fonts be nice-looking?) put together at the Blog Theme Machine of 40 Must Have Grunge Fonts from DaFont.com.

I like the looks of Trashco and Ginga. I love sketchy, handdrawn fonts like Refuse Trip, Pointy, and Urban Sketch although I never really thought of them as grunge fonts.

A few individual characters that I like: the backwards e in Karabine, the O and 0 in Heroin 07, and the descenders on Chicago House. And I like the looks of FFF Trusj (another not so grungy font) that looks like some lettering I've done before while doodling.

When you click on each image it takes you to the download page at DaFont.com. I like the graphics they have there showing the font name in color against various backgrounds. Very nice presentation.

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Pop up cards turn flat greeting cards into something just a little more fun. For your Halloween greetings or party invitations I've found a couple of pumpkins that are ready to pop out of your printer.

Unless you visit the Japanese Paper Museum regularly you might have missed this first fun printable. The site is in Japanese but the fun Halloween printable card is in English. The top button (darker pink) downloads the free PDF file for the card (2 pages). The middle button is a PDF of instructions for creating the pop-up card. It's not in English but there are lots of pictures. (The bottom button is to purchase the card already made, I think). If you download this one, let us know how easy/hard it is to follow the instructions.

Canon's Creative Park also has a printable pop-up Happy Halloween pumpkin card. The pattern sheets come as PDF formatted for either A4 or US letter size paper. There's a separate PDF with assembly instructions. In addition to the smiling jack-o-lantern, there are witches, bats, and spooky houses in the background.