Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas Eve, Have a Wonderful Holiday Season

More of my Christmas wrapping. Combination of Dollar Store, Kraft Paper and reused ribbons.

I cheated on the large gifts. Wrapped two boxes in kraft paper and then used some glittery christmas tree scarf ribbon (very wide) to tie them together. Then I tricked out a purchased gift tag with some glittery washi tape. Used some of the leftover christmas scarf in my purchased gift bag in place of tissue.

I have had a lot of fun blogging and pinning beautiful wrapping in 2016, my own and others. Thanks to all who have followed along on the blog and on Pinterest.  The most joyous of holidays to you -- Norine

New Year's gift wrap ideas

New Year's gift wrapping (and lots of directions and materials lists) from ginatepper.com:

I really like this mask idea with glittery paper from corinnawraps.

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 AnastasiaMarie

Obsessed with this shop and blog! From her Etsy shop description:

"Anastasia Marie is a stationery + design studio based in the Portland, Oregon metro area. Founded by Anastasia Mikailenko in 2009, Anastasia Marie originally began only as a full on custom design service, but has then progressed to include ready-made goods and packaging supplies. Anastasia Marie continues to specialize in the handmade, which includes 3D layered cards + wall art and layered paper garlands + toppers — as well as wedding + social stationery, working with brides and small businesses to bring their life’s stories and dreams into their paper goods." 

She has so many good things in her Etsy shop that you can use to recreate the amazing ideas in her blog.  For example, can you get any cuter than this baby shower gift wrapping using cut outs of little baby things?  No you cannot.

Directions for this look can be found here.

 Or this elegant dahlia gift wrapping?  Sigh.

So pretty.

And if you go to her shop, you will find the best tags, washi tape and glitter things ever. For example, this corrugated tag with glitter:

Buy these tags here. 

Which can be used to wrap gifts like this:

or like this:

Go here for directions on how to do this.

I could go on for days. But just go check it out to find your favorites.

Okay, just one more.

Can you stand it? So, so cute!