Gift Wrap

I thought I'd share what I was working on last night....

Shelby and I have a birthday party to go to tonight, and I got a little creative with wrapping the gift.

I used 2 inch strips of Stampin' Up! fabric to create rolled fabric flowers.  This is the Candy Cane Designer Series Fabric.  I never really thought it looked all that Christmassy before.  Looks pretty cute on a B-day present.

Here it is just a little closer.  The leaves are Wild Wasabi paper cut with circle punches. I like the frayed edges of the fabric.  I made a little snip at the edge of the fabric and then ripped it to make the strips, that's how you get the frayed edges.  You can also pull a string or two.

And here's a close up of the card.  The "e" is the birthday girl's initial.  I love monograms, I think they are super cute.  And little tiny cards like this are sometimes more fun that regular sized ones.  This card is 3 X 3.  I refer to that size as a "love note"  <3

supplies:

fabric: candy cane designer series fabric

paper: real red, wild wasabi, baja breeze, whisper white, pretty in pink cardstock

tools: Big Shot die cut machine, perfect polka dots embossing folder, 

bigz alphabet simple letters die, scallop edge border punch, 2 1/2" circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch

accessories: real red satin ribbon, white bakers twine, dimensionals

other: hot glue gun

 

Here's a gift I did last month for another little friend of Shelby's...

I forgot to take a picture before we left the house, so here it is on my lap in the car!  Ha ha!

I made the pinwheels with double sided Designer Series Paper and a jumbo brad and put them on wooden skewers.  For the card I used the pinwheel stamp from the "Sweets for the Sweet" set from Stampin' Up!

A little closer.  I wish I had taken better pictures of this one, like a close, close up of the card.  Next time!

supplies:

stamps: sweets for the sweet, happiest birthday wishes

ink: rich razzleberry, pumpkin pie, melon mambo, daffodil delight

paper: pumpkin pie, rich razzleberry, melon mambo, whisper white cardstock

Designer Series Paper is retired :( boo!

ribbon: pumpkin pie 1 1/4" striped grosgrain, crushed curry polka dot ribbon (retired. sorry!)

accessories: 5/16" jumbo brads neutral, regular (3/16") brads neutral

tools: simply scored, 1/16'' handheld punch, scallop edge border punch, 

designer label punch, scallop oval punch, paper snips

other: glue dots, dimensionals  

And here's a card I made for a friend of Sean's.  He had an Angry Birds themed party at a trampoline place.  SO fun!  Sean drew an Angry Birds scene on the white wrapping paper and we put the card on top of it.  I took a picture of his drawing, but I cannot find it :( 
Here's the card anyways.  Lots of fun to make!

supplies:
stamps: Happiest Birthday Wishes, wood grain background, extreme elements
ink: whisper white craft ink, basic black, early espresso
paper: marina mist, whisper white, crumb cake, basic black, pear pizzazz, 
early espresso, real red, daffodil delight, old olive
punches: 1/2" circle, 3/4" circle, 1 3/4" circle, 1" circle, 
owl builder, cupcake builder,ornament, pennant builder,bird builder, 
scallop edge, itty bitty punch pack
other: white embossing powder, heat tool, dimensionals, black journaling pen




 


So, you can see, it's pretty fun to decorate packages beautifully.  Much more my style than printed paper and plain ribbon.  You can really let your creativity take over this way.  Fun fun fun!

Have fun decorating your packages!!!

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