Tuesday, December 16, 2008

do: homemade gift wrapping

recipe for some good old homemade gift wrapping:

1. wrap package in brown bag paper
(reverse if there are images on one side)


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2. create "ribbon" using colored masking tape


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3. add crepe paper "bow"
(cut into small squares, affixed atop each other with glue stick, scrunched to perfection)


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4. make simple gift labels in word
(my favorite fonts: symbol & wingding for images; academy engraved for alphabet)

voilá!

3 comments:

  1. it's the little details that make life abb. love the tutorial. I have several gifts that could use your experienced touch.

    2 wrapping related notes:
    1) I bought a gift at Black Cat and was so disappointed in the crappy way the self-important girl wrapped it. she didn't use enough paper!

    2) I saw a Motrin commercial that featured a "real Motrin user." This woman's business is going to people's houses and wrapping their gifts for them. She uses motrin bc she is always bending over a table. She did not do nearly as good of a job you, my dear dh. also you are MUCH cuter, on the whole. just so you know.

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  2. can you come to LA and wrap my gifts?

    i used to love wrapping my gifts in the comic section from the newspaper. now that i don't get the paper, maybe ye old brown bag will be the replacement. it is simple, but so pretty and efffective. i love the masking tape too, but i am a hard-core fan of the twine and/or raffia for the ribbon/bow. i think it's the hippie left in me.

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