Etsy Monday Gift Card Holders and more at Chickydoddle

Here's a cute way to present a gift card, everything available from Chickydoddle:

Take one envelope:

Set of 25, will last you a long time!

Insert gift card:

Close with washi tape:

Kraft paper washi tape

Or stickers:

She offers custom text!

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Or twine:

This is a great option with a little shimmer!

rolling!

I saw this picture without a good explanation (or link to original page) and wanted to dissect the brilliance that it was.  This looks like someone slipped rubber bands around an old rolling pin to create a DIY stamp. Notice the paper wrapped around the rolling pin under the rubber bands which would technically make it possible to use a NEW rolling pin for this DIY. I loved this idea.

But then -- a hunt for rolling pin gift wrap opened up a new world for me.  This is not a new idea at all, I find and in fact there are many, many pictures of kids happily wrapping varieties of stuff around rolling pins to make gift wrap paper. And grownups talking seriously about rolling pin print making in videos showing how to do it. And so on. For example:

A more sophisticated take on this technique at this blog

Finished product!

So while I have missed out on the opportunity to give you any kind of original DIY gift wrap post, I did get on a roll covering the subject.

variations on a theme -- kraft plus

I have been posting wrapping paper from some great Etsy shops. If you want to make the paper last longer, or reuse any particularly beautiful wrapping paper you are gifted, I really like the idea of banding or embellishing kraft paper with more colorful papers.  To wit:

Howjoyful offers a free download of this cute button paper.

This is such a great idea for all those free download paper designs. If that isn't simple enough, how about buying paper ribbon and seals?

Paperjacks makes it easy by creating paper ribbon you can buy

Paperjacks paper ribbon and seals on kraft paper

Tissue paper is underrated.  I love how this blogger folded it to turn it into a band.

Easy washi tape, tissue and kraft paper wrapping

32,000 year old twine

createcraftlove

whisker graphics

A link to a DIY flower loom

There was a report on Discovery and in Science News that ancient fibers were found that had been dyed different colors including black, gray, turquoise and, in one case, pink. These were dated to 32,000 years ago.  The speculation was that these hunter gatherers had discovered twine, and it was a huge technological advance for them.

The twisting shows it wasn't accidental

Take that, ribbon!