This Christmas I felt it was necessary to not only make my wrapped gifts look attractive, but to also be resourceful and use supplies I had at home. This helped me to be more creative and also gave me an awesome feeling of having saved both time (in traffic and long lines, crowds at stores) and money (which we all need right now to survive).
For my sashes I used tissue paper from several Christmases ago which I folded in pleats and pieces of scrapbook paper that I had from a previous project. My labels were stickers from Papersource and the names on the gifts were also stickers, found at Walmart (also from a previous project). It was a great way of avoiding the generic plasticy bows and having them get smashed during shipping/transportation (my gifts were going to Kauai). I was very pleased with the results and so were my recepients!
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at 23:37 on December 25th, 2008
This Christmas I felt it was necessary to not only make my wrapped gifts look attractive, but to also be resourceful and use supplies I had at home. This helped me to be more creative and also gave me an awesome feeling of having saved both time (in traffic and long lines, crowds at stores) and money (which we all need right now to survive).
For my sashes I used tissue paper from several Christmases ago which I folded in pleats and pieces of scrapbook paper that I had from a previous project. My labels were stickers from Papersource and the names on the gifts were also stickers, found at Walmart (also from a previous project). It was a great way of avoiding the generic plasticy bows and having them get smashed during shipping/transportation (my gifts were going to Kauai). I was very pleased with the results and so were my recepients!