by jenn_davis | diy
*This is a post I wrote several months back on my personal blog but I thought I would share it here today since it is the season for wrapping!
It was my first attempt at decorating my own wrapping paper and I discovered a few things that worked and some that didn’t. I’ll let you be the judge in deciding how it turned out….
Step #1: Measure wrapping paper (in this case I am using a large roll of brown drawing paper I had from college and recently unearthed in my parents garage). Score! You can get yours here.
Step #2: Take a glass (or any round top object will do) and draw circles on another sheet of paper the same or similar size as the one you will be wrapping with…
Step #3: Cut out circles and place them by taping on wrapping paper surface…
Step #4: Choose desired color of spray paint and coat wrapping paper with circles still taped in place. I used pink here but red or white would be perfect for the Holidays!
Step #5: Remove cutout circles…
Step #6: Wrap gift and use ribbon, or in this case yarn, to tie a bow…
Voila…instantly personalized! I even used one of the circles to make a little heart label but after Heather’s post yesterday I will be using one of these!
Cost: $0. All products used were those that I had laying around the house!
Time: About 30 minutes. If I was to do this again I think I could move a bit faster. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was doing. 🙂
All in all….pretty cute, don’t ya think?
xoxo,
by heather | diy, fun finds
I don’t know about you, but I need to start wrapping gifts for the holidays. They are starting to pile up in my closet with no place to hide!
Don’t buy boring gift tags at a chain store…print some right at home from these awesome websites to spruce up your gift wrappings!
Here is a festive collection of free printable holiday tags from around the web (click name below image to download)
Sass & Peril
EatDrinkChic
HEY LOOK
Love vs. Design
Ellinée
Living Locurto
The Caroline Johansson
Happy Wrapping!
by steph_egan | fun finds
While driving to dinner last weekend, my husband and I passed a home decorated for Christmas… which made him shout out something like, WHOA DID YOU SEE THAT?! I wasn’t sure what house he was talking about.. I was busy noticing the tastefully decorated bushes of one house, and the others with candles in the windows (while driving and paying attention to the road, of course!).
On our way back home he had me pull down the street for a closer look.
I must be blind.
I have no clue how I missed THIS:
I mean, wow! We pulled up in front of the house… along with a line of cars who pulled up behind us. We had no words for what we were looking at. And then I rolled down the window to grab a couple of iphone pics, and it got better!
Christmas music was blaring.
This house definitely gives Chevy Chase a run for his money, and a whole new meaning to showing your Christmas spirit! But I had to wonder how their neighbors feel? The houses on either side had not one single decoration…
So, how do you decorate? We do wreaths on the front doors and some candles in the windows. Basic stuff that you wouldn’t be able to see from space.
‘Tis the season!
