Lia Griffith does Father's Day Gift Wrapping

Lia Griffith does new designs for gift wrapping and tags for each holiday.  These are printable! The theme this year is outdoorsy.

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 There are a lot of other great designs on the site:

Wrapper of the Week Molly Mell Everything you can do with a heart!

I was poking around trying to find some good DIY Valentine's wrapping, and everything I liked came from a blog called Molly Mell.

Regina Mello has a sharp eye for the utterly adorable. This is true of her photography, food recipes and so on, but I was particularly impressed with her wrapping ideas.

For Valentine's Day, she has some great riffs on what you can do with a simple heart punch .

Like this:

Go here for a great gift tag DIY

And this was such a great idea! She used heart cut outs to cover up reindeers on some gift wrap she had bought.  Way to switch the season!

A lovely Valentine DIY

And finally, more DIY Heart Gift tags.

Cute tags, right?

So these are apropos for the season, but she has some great Christmas gift wrap ideas and a lot of very pretty photos of every day things.  Don't miss checking out her blog!

DIY Gift Wrapping from dollar store and free printables

I have started my Christmas wrapping. My first package needs to go to my daughter, son-in-law and their family. So first, I did some scribbling, along the lines of what I talked about in this earlier post,

Materials:
White Wrapping Paper
Dollar Store Glitter Glue
Dollar Store Ribbons
Print it yourself gift tags

I was loosely trying to do a Christmas tree, succeeded better on one than the other, but I still liked them both. I wrapped, scribbled with the glitter glue, glued on a simple knotted ribbon piece for each and used gift tags I had printed. Done.

Next, I tried using printable wrapping paper and gift tags along the lines of these posts:
 Free Printable Wrapping Paper  
What with white paper

Materials:
8.5 x 11 printer paper
Glossy photo paper for the tags
Ribbons and glitter tape from the Dollar Store.
White wrapping paper.
Leftover glitter paper bats from Halloween
hole punch

The gift wrap I downloaded was from a french site,  hello hello.  When I printed, I made sure that the print settings put down maximum ink. One of the reasons I stuck with black and white is my inkjet wasn't doing so great with the colored versions.

I liked the reindeer antlers and the trees.

The paper I printed was 8.5 x 11, so works only on very small gifts. On a larger gift, I tried folding a band to go around the front, but ended up adding a couple different glitter ribbons and some glitter tape to hold down the edges of the band. Finally, I had some glittery cardboard bats that didn't survive Halloween that well so I cut them up to add some accents to the gift tags.

The tags I ended up using were from yourmarketingbff.com.. As mentioned before, I printed these on photo paper. They have a number of free designs, I started from this page because I found the tags from these pictures using the wrapping paper I had downloaded. 

Reindeers and Trees!

But ended up with this version which you can find for free in their shop:

And I'm Done.

Etsy Monday Printable Christmas Downloads

While not free, I really could not resist these Christmas wrapping and tag downloads from Wendyjune. As she says in her very Cute Etsy Shop :

"It all started in grade 3 when I won a prize for drawing an icecream.
Miss Marsden you have a lot to answer for.

I love to draw! You will find my original drawings featured on a range of beautifully produced products. Quirky cards, stationary, tea towels as well as a range of digital prints."

These Christmas Cat Gift Tags  are super cute.

Add these great gift bags and you are all set for small gifts!

Christmas Bird Decorations! Would look great on gifts.

Christmas Swan Gift Bags.

Maiko Nagao Free Printables

This graphic designer really has some excellent free printables suitable for the holidays on her blog.  Check this out:

Perfect graphic gift tags.

This works for more than the holidays, but I think it would be very holiday chic with some red ribbons.

Okay so not exactly gift wrapping, but seriously how cute is this anti-monster spray label?

Spray away the monsters!

button, button, where's the button

Buttons on gift tags. Of course!

Glue some buttons to your tags

Not too hard to draw straight lines and little ornament holders. What a super cute idea!

This may be the ultimate button gift tag idea ever.

a fashiony version.

a slick version

Work it

The free printable tags we showed yesterday are probably what I will be doing this year. However, there are many options for those who want to go the extra mile. Today's gift tags take some extra effort, whether with cardmaking tools

Pebbles Blog

or with manila tags, buttons, coffee, rick rack and some imagination:

Lisa Leonard's handmade gift tags

Or how about an old sweater?  I kid you not!

Lots of instructions here

Finally, greenery. This idea is very festive.

Evergreen gift tags