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Day # 5 gift wrap and we have a giveaway winner.........

Todays gift is all about tin boxes and food............everyone is familiar with decorative metal containers......we all save them and reuse them often. Even though these are new you can find them really reasonable this time of year.......with some ribbon and a tag you have a really nice gift and the wrapping is simple......these tags I ordered several years back but you can use any type of tag......inside is a surprise but can be any kind of delicious nuts, granola, candy, cookies etc.....

here is another one and this is a smaller tin with some twine and the same tag........

So there you have a really SIMPLE way to gift that food item with a tin container..........

 

Giveaway winner is:

Thank You all once again for your comments......I loved all the traditions each of you shared with me......we all have wonderful family and friend traditions and want to make sure to hand those down to our kids and grandkids.........Congratulations to Jeanne on this giveaway...please email me at jpeter@cox.net.......check back next week for another giveaway and the continued gift wrapping ideas.....

 

Happy weekend all and stay safe..........

Day # 4 Christmas Gift Wrapping..........it's all in the Bag

Super Super simple using a flat bag......this is for small gifts like jewelry or gift certificates.....a little bit of tissue with this tone on tone gold theme......ribbon , fresh cut greens from the yard and some dried roses to add a little bit of neutral color.....how easy and simple. You don't even need tape or scissors..

 

for a little girl............

We all save bags when we have received gifts.....I love the plain ones with nothing printed on them because you can really jazz them up.....here we have a gold bag with some gold polka dot tissue along with some marble paper I saved.....for the little girl or big girl I added one of my paper doll picks, also a gold star pick with some greenery, bells and gold ribbon......

 

for a little boy........

For this one I used a plain white bag, red mylar tissue, red plaid bow and some star picks out of glitter paper and this little cut out paper doll soldier........easy wrapping and again no tape or scissors required.......you can add a name with a simple tag if needed......

So that is the simple recycled bags and tissue wrap and a little fresh cut greenery from the yard....

If anyone is interested I still have a few of the paper dolls picks left.....just email me at jpeter@cox.net.

 

Hope this has helped you with your gift wrapping a little.......have a great weekend and I will have day # 5 tomorrow!

Day # 3 Gift Wrapping......... using old Christmas Cards

If you are like me I do save most of my old Christmas Cards........when I was looking through them the other day I thought why not use them.......so I picked out several and this one in particular stood out when I was looking for one to go on this navy blue box......and yes I do save good boxes like this blue one. You just never know when you may need it. 

So I cut the back of the card off and just glued it to the top of the box lid...... with some gold netting tied around the entire box and bits and pieces of Christmas picks and garland........ it finished this easy gift wrap........and if you want to add a tag the photo below shows one out of an old Christmas Post Card.....I shrunk the post card down added some glitter, stickles for the berries and backed it with some glitter paper.........you can also just use a bought tag in a gold color if you don't want to make a tag. 

Well hope this helps a little for your gift wrapping and things you might have around to use up and not have to go out and get.........

Happy December 3, enjoy your day.....and remember you have until tomorrow evening for the Christmas giveaway #3..................

Day # 2 Gift Wrapping

Here is todays gift wrap and these are the things you need to create.......any shape of craft box ( you can find these at any craft store) white signo pen, cookie cutter, craft paper, colored scrapbook paper, red twine, old piece of green garland  and glitter paper if you like the look........start to doodle on the box with the pen even if its polkadots .........wrap the twine around one of the triangles of the star or if you have a round or square box wrap it around and tie a big bow.......draw the gingerbread guy or any shape on some kraft paper, I just thought the gingerbread man was cute.....add the greenery and there you have this cute simple decorated box ........I love stacking them......

Here is a hint if you don't have a Kraft box.... look around for a box with a lid, get some kraft paper and glue the paper on the box and now you have a kraft box.......start doodling and have fun!

Hope you all are having a great week so far......check back tomorrow for Day 3 Gift Wrap.........

12 days of gift wrapping...........

Thought it might be fun to give some ideas for gift wrapping with new, used and recycled elements that you might have around to decorate those packages this year.....

 

Day # 1 is really just a simple plain paper with some silk ribbon and tying in a simple knot with the edges trimmed, added a small piece of old greenery I had from an old Christmas garland and these sweet mini ornaments from target........very simple but classy and elegant all at the same time.......

Happy Gift WRAPPING................check back tomorrow for another idea!

DECEMBER 1 2020............

A couple years ago I purchased this pattern book of Sue Spargo.....Imperial Blooms........when I first got this I knew instead of the wool fabric you are suppose to use I wanted to use some of the wonderful wool felt from the Paper Crown.....Cindy has always carried this beautiful felt and with a huge variety of colors...( she is all stocked up right now and you can order on line if you go to her website Paper Crown)....well back to a couple years back I started the first couple of blooms and like always put it up...... a couple weeks ago while looking for something I stumbled across this and decided to start stitching again........this will eventually be a wall hanging.....I keep adding stitching to each one and this is what is so fun........

 

 

So fun and colorful on this cold First day of December.......hope you enjoy this day